SFBA Announcements

Hello SFBA!

We're here to let you know that Seb, our team member and SFBA co-founder, is stepping down from his role this month. We're all immensely grateful for Seb's contributions in helping create and build this community over the past five years, and we will miss him!

The rest of the team is staying on, and you shouldn't see any changes to how any of our SFBA services run.

We're working on plans to expand the team to ensure SFBA's long-term continuity and to build our community and offerings. If you might be interested in joining us, keep an eye out for additional announcements!

If you have any questions, feel free to reply below, or we're available as always at @moderators@sfba.social

The SFBA Team
@cd24@sfba.social, @EverydayMoggie@sfba.social, @Ingurido@sfba.social, @jeridansky@sfba.social, @Moritz@sfba.social, @neuralgraffiti@sfba.social

Hi SFBA!

Our database needs a little TLC! To keep everything running smoothly, we'll be performing some quick maintenance this Saturday afternoon. We expect the site to be down for about 2 hours—thanks for your patience while we tidy things up!

Hello SFBA!
Thank you for joining us here on SFBA this year! We’ve published our end-of-year transparency report, covering Q2-Q4. Our Q1 report is also available on the information hub.

Happy new year! :fireworks: 🎊

https://hub.sfba.social/2025/12/21/2025-q2-q4-transparency-report/

We've upgraded to Mastodon 4.5, which includes some great new features  :sfbasocial:

Some Mastodon clients already had built-in support for quote posting. Existing quote posts will remain unchanged, but Mastodon has added support for consent-respecting quote posts. You can disable quoting for all of your posts or individual posts in your account settings.

To learn more, please see the Mastodon blog post covering quote posts: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts

We are also excited for automatic reply fetching! Replies from other instances will be automatically fetched when you visit a new thread, and continue to be updated every 15 minutes. This will help fill in all of those missing posts from other instances.

We're also updating our default landing page to be the local feed so new visitors to SFBA will get to see all of your wonderful public posts!

Learn more about Mastodon 4.5 on the JoinMastodon blog: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/

You may have noticed that sfba.social looks a bit different, and that's because we just upgraded to the latest version of the Mastodon software. You can read about the changes here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4.4/

If you have any questions or encounter any problems, please reach out to us via @announcements@sfba.social, @moderators@sfba.social, or via email (support@sfba.social).

Hello Everyone!
We’ve just published our 2025 Q1 report on the information hub! Check it out here:

https://hub.sfba.social/2025/04/07/2025-q1-transparency-report/

Hello #SFBA!
The @surf@flipboard.social team has offered us 20 referral codes for joining the app’s beta testing. We decided the best way to distribute these is with a random drawing for our community members. If you would like to be entered for a chance to win, simply reply to this post from your SFBA.social account before 8:00 AM Pacific Time on Saturday January 25th. We will directly message the winners with their referral code!

Thank you, everyone, for helping to make this community awesome. Happy posting!

Dear #SFBA Community,
Thank you all for being awesome and participating in our little corner of the Fediverse!
The #SFBA team wishes you Happy Holidays and a wholesome time with your loved ones.
We also prepared a new small site (https://join.sfba.social) for you to use, if you’d like to invite family members and/or friends to the Fediverse.
Stay Safe and Have Fun!

We made some updates to the server rules!

https://hub.sfba.social/governance/code-of-conduct/

From: @moderators@sfba.social
@moderators@sfba.social

@Bam@sfba.social Yes!

Dear #SFBA Community,

We are in need of a little downtime to clean up the database server after all the complications in the last couple of weeks.
We will take SFBA Mastodon offline between 8pm and 9pm tomorrow (Sunday Nov 3rd) evening.

We encourage you to check out the SFBA Book Club during that time – there are some really nice books reviewed in there! https://sfba.club

Thank you very much for your patience and understanding!

We have just completed updating sfba.social to Mastodon v4.3.1 and everything went smoothly. This update brings a fresh appearance to the Mastodon client interface. You may need to refresh in order to see the changes.

As always, we deeply appreciate your continued support! If you'd like to donate, you can do so at https://ko-fi.com/sfba_fedi