GiftedMC Instance Update #5

Today I made good on my promise that I wont be able to make a regular weekly schedule for instance updates. Yay! Just kidding.

1. meta/threads.net

We‘ve had an interesting couple of days. There were renewed pushes from meta shills for recognition of meta as a legitimate part of the fediverse (aaaahahahahhahaha). I have of course called them out in the comments and in some cases reported and also blocked some.

This instance is firmly standing behind it‘s course to stay defederated from meta and will not change this for the foreseeable future. Other big players like bluesky and (whatever the name was) we havent decided on yet but so far, no reason to preemtively defederate.

2. inter-instance-fighting

Probably no one noticed that there was some fighting between two admins recently. This will have no consequences in terms of our federation with other instances. The conflict has been resolved by personal block.

3. Problems with picture upload

For some reason, we‘re experiencing issues with pictrs which is responsible for our picture upload. Therefore we dont have any way to upload pictures atm. That means that memes is dead for now until we can resolve this. Its possible this has to do with the instance icon bug which has been an issue for a long time and lemmy and we‘re looking to resolve it.

General information

What is GiftedMC?

We‘re a private, invite-only instance for the GiftedMC community, a place for neurodivergent folks and friends.

Neurodivergent can mean a lot of things but a large portion of the community is autistic, gifted, adhd or a mix of these. We dont discriminate against people with personality disorders but certain, high prevalence behaviors are outlawed in our community.

How can I join?

You can join the discord and matrix spaces for free and post with your fediverse accounts to our communities. Only the privilege of getting an account is reserved for members.

How do I get an account?

You have to ask to be invited. Members are also asked to help fund the multitude of services this community operates for its members. You can help with any amount you like, starting at 1$/€ per month.

What services do you offer?

Here‘s a list of the services we currently operate:

  • lemmy instance
  • mastodon instance
  • peertube instance
  • matrix instance
  • forum
  • wiki
  • uptime kuma (see services‘ health)
  • 2 minecraft servers
  • discord server

How do I ask to be invited?

You either write an email to [email protected] or you can ask any member of the giftedmc.com instances on any service and they will help you.

Do I need to play minecraft?

No. In fact, the majority of the community doesnt play minecraft regularly. The Minecraft theme is a remnant of our past. We started as a community based around a minecraft server and evolved from there.

How many members do you have?

All over the comminity, around 100. Only a handful of them are supporting members so we‘re not making any money from this by a long shot.

Thanks for reading. Have a good one.