Keybase recently announced native support for Mastodon verification. Free Radical is now supported by that system, so you can log into Keybase and prove that you own your Mastodon account to get a spiffy green checkmark on your profile.

Free Radical is now on Mastodon v2.8.0.

Free Radical turns two years old today! Since joining: The fediverse has grown from 250 instances to nearly 2,000 active ones. The network went from 100,000 users to nearly 2.2 million. Free Radical has grown from 1 user (me) to 1,113, with 114,000 toots. Thanks to everyone who’s made this so much fun!

I’m silencing (not blocking) two instances dedicated to NSFW content. If you still want to follow users on them, please do! I mainly don’t want them filling our federated timeline, but I have zero desire to prevent anyone from seeing it who wants to. As a practical matter, I can’t financially afford to maintain mirrors of all their posted content.

Free Radical’s 1000th user joined today. Thanks to everyone who’s helped make this project fun, interesting, and fulfilling. Much love to all!

Free Radical is now on Mastodon v2.7.4.

When an admin fails to police their own content, or even to respond to complaints at all, it’s not reasonable to allow their instance to pollute the timelines. That’s why I’m silencing pl.smuglo.li.

Free Radical is now on Mastodon v2.7.2.

Free Radical is now on Mastodon v2.7.0.

Free Radical is now upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04.1. That involved a PostgreSQL upgrade. Sorry about the few minutes of downtime!