Name ACARS Drama
Languages English (en)
Users 13
Active users (last month) 13
Active users (last six months) 23
Characters per post (max) 1,000
Known instances 12,800
First sight Mar 30, 2025 UTC
Last successful check Feb 9, 2026 UTC
Noxious No
New No
Software Mastodon 4.5.5+glitch
Registrations Closed
E-mail mike@secureowl.com
Meta’s Threads moderation Unknown (this instance is not listed in the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact list), and its list of moderated instances is not accessible.
Most used hashtags (last week) Not available
Short description
A dedicated Mastodon instance for the ACARS Drama bot, the leading provider of sky-drama based ingestion services.
Long description
ACARS is a 1970's era protocol that is used in Aviation to this day, to pass messages over radio waves.
The transmissions happen in-the-clear (i.e. are not encrypted), which means that anyone in the vicinity can receive them with the right hardware and software (which is very readily available and costs about $30).
This instance made possible by a group of volunteers around the world who have set up distributed collectors of these messages, which are then forwarded onto our drama engine and checked for the presence of drama.
Most ACARS messages are extremely boring and routine things - which, to be honest, is part of the 'joke' of ACARS Drama. The site, https://acarsdrama.com has an overview of the project, and has info about how you can contribute as well.
We love aviation. We love planes. We love pilots. And we are nerds. That is why we are all here. Nothing on ACARS Drama is designed to hurt or embarrass anyone. Our privacy policy lists some of the ways we filter content to ensure that anything that could be identifiable or have a safety impact is filtered out of the feed.
The transmissions happen in-the-clear (i.e. are not encrypted), which means that anyone in the vicinity can receive them with the right hardware and software (which is very readily available and costs about $30).
This instance made possible by a group of volunteers around the world who have set up distributed collectors of these messages, which are then forwarded onto our drama engine and checked for the presence of drama.
Most ACARS messages are extremely boring and routine things - which, to be honest, is part of the 'joke' of ACARS Drama. The site, https://acarsdrama.com has an overview of the project, and has info about how you can contribute as well.
We love aviation. We love planes. We love pilots. And we are nerds. That is why we are all here. Nothing on ACARS Drama is designed to hurt or embarrass anyone. Our privacy policy lists some of the ways we filter content to ensure that anything that could be identifiable or have a safety impact is filtered out of the feed.
Instance rules
- All content on this site, with the exception of things like announcements, are automated output from the ACARS Drama drama engine.
- Feel free to share this content anywhere you like. Except Twitter or whatever it's called now.
Moderated instances [?]
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Instances certainly moderating this instance [?]
- gluck.cc: suspension
Admin account acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com
Date of creation Mar 28, 2025 UTC
Display name ACARS Drama
Bio
ACARS Drama is a project powered by a global network of aviation enthusiasts on the hunt for interesting cleartext ACARS and VDLM2 messages captured from passing aircraft using cheap radio hardware and free open source software. Most messages are very undramatic. All messages posted are slightly delayed and have identifying information removed. DM or check out https://acarsdrama.com if you have an SDR and would like to feed the drama machine. #avgeek #acars #vdlm2
Statistics
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