@trenchworms it's the notification sound of #WitchesTown Mastodon instance I closed a few years ago and it has been kept on eldritch.cafe by the friends who opened it 😊

#witchestown is now indeed down. RIP

@cassolotl@dev.glitch.social Added - thank you for your work on that!

https://mew.toot.cat/mw/Pub/witches.town

#witchestown

@amsomniac Those who are migrating from the #witchestown #instance try these places as your new home:

https://eldritch.cafe - the FR/EN feminist, lgbtq spot

https://sleeping.town - super neat and cozy

https://pentacl.es - very much a very witchy place

https://occult.camp - magic brewers of goth

#migration

@Sylvhem What instance will you be moving to this month from #WitchesTown?

@viomi I have reviewed https://social.targaryen.house and I think that you can whitelist it if you want. The drama that got it onto #witchestown silence list is something to do with the original admin who already left, and now it seems to be quite a normal kind of place since @thekinrar
I know that many #instances still block it, but maybe since you have a new instance it would be nice to whitelist as many instances as possible that do not appear to be specifically terrible.

Something to consider...

Dear people on #WitchesTown. This is to let you know, that you are welcome on https://todon.nl as well.

Please read the terms at https://todon.nl/terms and see if you are okay with it. Todon.nl has now 824 registered users, we are optimized for wide screens and English, Dutch, German and Spanish are the most used languages here (even some French too).

I was planning to announce the wiki properly *before* I needed to use it for something, but...

Here's all the key stuff I've been able to collect about what happened at WT: https://mew.toot.cat/mw/Pub/witches.town

Feel free to toss any additional leads at me.

#witchestown

@wakest @ExilianOfficial@mastodon.at @tindall @JubalBarca@mastodon.at

#WitchesTown #socialcoop #instance #instances #instancegovernance

@wakest @ExilianOfficial@mastodon.at @tindall @JubalBarca@mastodon.at

I don't know if #socialcoop itself would have the capacity to take the reins directly, as we're running collectively without paid staff rn. However, a group of us could probably advise a #WitchesTown steering committee/coven on forming a #coop.

To succeed, such a conversion would really need to be driven by the instance residents (with significant #mutualaid from co-op friends).

@arcans@mastodon.at Oh it's a threat?! That must be not very constructive for people on #witchestown. They deserve better.

I don't know what exactly is happening with #witchestown, but what I don't understand, is why the community over there don't take the administration in their own hands? Or is the current admin very stubborn?

For context, #witchestown is only the 50th largest instance in the Mastodon network. After less than a week of existence, #switter is #10...

@Are0h @kavbojka #witchestown

@JubalBarca@mastodon.at @ExilianOfficial@mastodon.at @tindall

Agreed - my instance #socialcoop is structured to be collectively managed, so we've got that baked in.

I also think there's a lot of opportunities for small non-profits to take on instance administration for particular communities. For instance, the hackerspace I'm a member of is discussing spinning one up with the core membership aimed at residents of our town.

#WitchesTown

Yes hi #witchestown I'd like to file a complaint about harassing messages from someone on ur instance. Who is the person I should talk to?

Easy-Bake Coven Simpsons #Spoop #Halloween #WitchesTown

#UnJourUnJDR #JeudeRôle

Bref, évidemment Monsterhearts a énormément de choses a offrir, et je ne peux pas parler de tout ici, mais je vous invite très fortement a essayer ce jeu, et d'autant plus si vous êtes vous même queer, parce que ça pourrait bien vous toucher plus que vous ne le pensiez. Surtout si vous avez vécu un lycée dans le placard (j'imagine, ça a pas été mon cas, mais ça correspond pas mal a la thématique du jeu...)

(coucou les witches #WitchesTown)

https://imaginair.es/media/YDyuy1io3g4_its55FQ

Une petite dedicace pour #witchestown où je vois passer des trucs sympas. Un petit clip d'une artiste angolaise trans et lesbienne.

https://youtu.be/nu55rewex54

@TheKinrar I see you're maintainer of mastodon instance list ... and I was asking myself yesterday if there was a list of "thematic" instances (was typically thinking about #WitchesTown, #LaVolte, or the french government one). Do you think it would be possible to emphasize those informations on your instance list ?