@dHeinemann Thank you! We appreciate that!

There's another spam wave going on right now. Hopefully most of you haven't noticed because we've been catching it before it gets to our community. Unfortunately, much of this spam is coming from instances with small moderation staff or unmonitored instances. In those situations, we're having to block those instances completely. If you find you're trying to follow an account on a blocked instance, let us know so we can unblock for you.

You can see who we block here:

Fosstodon

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Mastodon hosted on fosstodon.org (fosstodon.org)

This morning my wife grabbed her coffee, sat down at her computer, signed in, and immediately got a BSOD.

Happy Monday everybody. I hope you had a good weekend.

@rapidscampi I was concerned about it when I first heard, but I did some comparisons with my personal web activity and I'm less worried now. I compared Firefox with uBlock Origin to Vivaldi just using its integrated ad/tracker blocking, and for how I use the web, Vivaldi was still better at blocking ads and trackers. Vivaldi's integrated ad/tracker blocking won't be impacted by the move to Manifest v3, so Vivaldi will still have exceptional ad blocking capability even after the roll out.

There's a brand new version of #VivaldiBrowser out there if you haven't already tried it. There's an updated UI and a new dashboard to customize. Also, not a drop of AI in sight.

A brand new Vivaldi | Vivaldi Browser

You are going to want to read this!

Vivaldi Browser (vivaldi.com)