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Languages English (en)
Users 145
Active users (last month) 25
Active users (last six months) 40
Characters per post (max) 500
Known instances 15,789
First sight Nov 10, 2022 UTC
Last successful check Dec 6, 2024 UTC
Noxious No
New No
Software Mastodon 4.2.10
Registrations Open (by admin approval)
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) ukraine, cats, threads, poetry, uspolitics, habeck, naturephotography
Short description
A social place intended as a chill hangout place for software testers, developers, or just about anyone involved in delivering software and who is interested in both the technical as well as the social side of things.
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sw-development-is.social is supported by the <a href="https://associationforsoftwaretesting.org/" target=“_blank”>Association for Software Testing</a>.
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Long description
Welcome to sw-development-is.social

An open source, Social Network (Mastodon). Focused on Software testing and development, all things social and technical, but open to anyone. Civil discourse, polite and open. Good hangout place for Software testers, developers, agilists, or tech people in general.

What is Mastodon / fediverse?

A safe, reliable and distributed open source social network. It uses Mastodon and you can chat with thousands of people that also part of other Mastodon networks (think of email).

Code of Conduct

We are a nice community of techies, sharing and helping each other. You are welcome to join!

Basic rules

Be Polite
Be Respectful - even if you disagree.
And everything will be fine.



Content not allowed

Any illegal content (doxing, leaking private information, under age content, etc)
Adult (pornography) content
Spam
Racism
Threats of any kind against any person, animal or institution.

Accounts breaking those rules will be banned without a warning.

Sponsorships

sw-development-is.social is supported by the Association for Software Testing, advancing understanding of the science and practice of software testing.
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Date of creation Nov 8, 2022 UTC
Display name Kristoffer Nordström
Bio
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Last checks (green: OK; red: KO)
11/29/24, 3:25:31 AM UTC11/30/24, 3:36:52 AM UTC12/1/24, 5:10:07 AM UTC12/2/24, 3:28:27 AM UTC12/3/24, 2:51:14 AM UTC12/4/24, 3:18:27 AM UTC12/5/24, 2:27:10 AM UTC12/6/24, 2:22:15 AM UTC
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