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Switter

6 years

Hey lovely people! Here's a little of what we've been up to this month. It's been a month of bank battles, legal woes and our new baby @WeAreTryst

We’ve hit 100k!

After our first 50 days, we thought things would start to calm down and we’d been handed back a piece of our sanity. Sadly, we were so very…

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

2 years

It is with a heavy heart that we have decided to shut down Switter as it has become impossible to sustain under the weight of misguided, ill-informed, and harmful legislation from around the world. Please see our public statement more information:

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Oh yes, we have upped our Emoji game

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

2 years

Before we go, we’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the years; it has meant the world to us. We are incredibly proud of everyone who rallied around Switter and helped push the topic of Sex Workers rights further into the mainstream.✨☂️✨

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Facebook just changed their Terms of Service as well. This will likely effect Instagram and Whatsapp as well. Time to do some cleaning.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Hey Switterverse! Here is the new Code of Conduct for Switter. In short: - No reviews - No affiliate links - No posting on behalf of any other party without consent. - No explicit language or acronyms to refer to specific sexual services within listings

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

With over 240,00 users, Switter celebrates it's first anniversary. 🎉 To everyone who has supported and helped us stay afloat, thank you! Together our solidarity is stronger than their hate - join us in pouring one for Switter ✨

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

2 years

RIP Switter 2018-2022 (Thank you to the Swittheart who made this ❤️)

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

It's been a month since Switter launched! Here are some big numbers: * 55,974 users * 491,180 toots * 10,425 listings * 569,985 listing searches * ~12TB of bandwidth^ * ~148 million requests^ * 340,625 emails sent ^ Data extrapolated cause no access to Cloudflare data

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

Hey folks, we've made the decision to close down our sign-ups for a bit while we try and get a hold of spam. SW who are wanting to join, e-mail us and we'll send you an invite 💜

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

If you would like a little more information as to why we are not supporting reviews and possibly harbouring review culture - please see the below amazing post by @Ms_Sophia_Rose It is a great summary of review culture. []

The Sex Industry Cannot Go Forward by Repeating the Mistakes of the Past

When I began in the sex industry, it was customary that all services would be covered. Yet, within a decade or so, sex workers who offered covered oral services became the minority…all because of …

courtesanfashion.wordpress.com

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

2 years

While we’re sad to say goodbye, we are eager to preserve your farewells. We’ll be collecting posts under the hashtag #FarewellSwitter on Twitter/Mastodon to display on the memorial site. ☂️✨

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We've just hit 100k users over on Switter! @Assembly_Four have some super exciting news we'll be announcing over there in a few days. Stay tuned Switthearts!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We are aware that there were many mixed feelings around reviews. Based on the feedback from workers on Switter and from a legal standpoint, we are not willing to facilitate reviews on Switter. If you would like to leave reviews there are other platforms for use. CONTINUED

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Hey Swithearts! We will be updating our Code of Conduct soon but wanted your feedback before we do. Our main focus is changing the rules around Reviews, Listings and Interacting as a Company on Switter. Feedback: switter @assemblyfour .com

Proposed Updates to Switter's Code of Conduct. | Notion

Please note:

assemblyfour.notion.site

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Due to threat of legal action we have removed the posts about a third party site that shall not be named. We still stand by your rights as s a user. It's your data, consent matters.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

might be periodically unavailable as we're currently being DDoS'd. We'll provide updates as the situation unfolds

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

It’s been a wild ride but the community feels stronger and more united than ever before. We’ve put a little bit together about the journey so far and beyond.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

Maintenance has been completed, we've upgraded the Mastodon codebase!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Looks like we're good! We'll continue to keep an eye on the situation

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We’re aware that users are having issues with connecting to the website. The team are on it 💻💜

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

Hey folks, we've been experiencing issues due to high load - we're going into maintenance mode for 20 minutes while we throw some more compute power at it. brb!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Hey Swithearts, we're a growing platform and want to make sure that everyone has a good experience - what rules would you like to see implemented? You can see our current rules here

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

Thanks for the review @YNOT_Cam 😊 🎉 We’re pretty excited about 2019🎉

All About Switter: Platform Pros and Cons

This social media platform actually seems to care about your viability as a worker (whaaaaa?!)... Give it a try!

www.ynotcam.com

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Hey Switthearts! Switter may be down for some users - we’re on the case 😘

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

4 years

In the attempt to send you lovely folks a new newsletter, a few of you may have received our old newsletter. Oops. You'll be hearing from us shortly? 💚

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

Looks like everything is starting to recover. Happy tooting

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Many of you have asked if we were taking donations and today we’re happy to announce that we are accepting donations for the ongoing costs of Switter! You can donate via Liberapay and Patreon. Here's a run down: To donate see comments:

Seeking Donations

Donate now to Switter ❤ https://liberapay.com/assemblyfour/

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

Hey folks, we're aware there is some issues accessing @SwitterSocial at the moment and the team is looking into it!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

We're looking into an issue with Switter, stay tuned! We're onto it 🕵🏻‍♀️

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Hey Australia! Great news! You can now link to your Switter profile on @ScarletBlue9 :D

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

Hey folks, turns out our monitoring didn't pick up that Switter's SSL certificate had expired. We are just working on it now. Our bad.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Introducing Top Toots! We're still working on integration directly from Switter but in the meantime - take a look at Switter's most popular!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We’re undergoing an outage as one of our servers has exhausted resources, upgrading now. Stay tuned!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

Hey folks, we're looking into an increase in 500 errors on @SwitterSocial 🔍

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

4 years

Switter is unavailable at the moment but we are on it!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

Switter will be undergoing maintenance tomorrow from 5:30pm PDT / 8:30pm EDT and will hopefully be completed by 11pm PDT / 2am EDT for a major upgrade.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

And we’re back!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We’ve just fixed an issue with images on Switter. Happy posting!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We’re under attack again. We’re working on it!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We’re investigating site issues

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

4 years

✨We’ll have a new piece from @GeorgieWolf in a few days, until then check out the chat she had to Nelly Uhlenkott an Australian psychotherapist, counsellor about the art of saying no to emotionally attached clients.✨

Sex Work and Emotional Attachment

It was my first experience of how helpful paid sex can be. But I felt uneasy too. Were things about to get weird? Emotional attachment can definitely be a problem. It can turn a good professional...

tryst.link

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@SwitterSocial

6 years

The attack appears to be over for now. A 36 second sample of the attack had us being hit by 2737 IP addresses, peaking at 15,000 packets a second and 8MiB/s.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Looking into some connectivity issues with Switter! Stay calm and enjoy a nice cup of tea 🍵

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Hey Swithearts, we’re going to be upgrading our capacity today from 4-5PM (UTC +10) The site will be temporarily unavailable during this time. We’ll post an update when we’ve completed the upgrade.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Switter is 👌🏻 We were running into issues scaling the site because of one the servers in our cluster playing silly buggers - just needed to be whipped into shape

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We’ve having some connectivity issues, working on it!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We’re about to upgrade some of our servers to deal with the extra traffic. We should remain online in the meantime.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

One of our services went 💥 Team is on it!

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@SwitterSocial

6 years

We’re aware some users having issues connecting to the site. Looking into it 🕵🏻‍♀️

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

We had an issue with upgrading our database server to something a bit larger, we'll be keeping an eye on it and making small tweaks over the next few hours!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

Switter is back up and running! One of the servers was misbehaving but we whipped it back into shape :D Happy tooting!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Never mind, it’s back. It looks like they’ll be at it for a while. Switter will be unstable for a bit.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We have fixed a bug with user registrations so now they’ll work again!

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@SwitterSocial

6 years

We’re being hit with a NTP amplification attack. Currently peaking at 15,000 packets a second.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

3 years

We're experiencing some issues with one of our providers right now and you maybe having issues accessing Switter. We’ll provide another update in 12 hours if not resolved

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@SwitterSocial

6 years

Everything has recovered, happy tooting🐘

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@SwitterSocial

6 years

Check out what we've been up to :) Looking for guinea pigs now ;)

tryst.link

@WeAreTryst

6 years

Sex workers deserve the same services and rights as anyone else, Tryst is here to raise the bar. Run and developed by sex workers and technologists, we've put together an advertising platform which puts escorts first. Taking beta testers now :)

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

4 years

And we’re back! You may need to wait a few minutes if you’re still having issues.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Switter is currently experiencing some issues, we’re having a gander into it and as always will keep you updated 💜

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We located the issue and things are recovering.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We’re experiencing network issues at the moment, looking into it!

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@SwitterSocial

6 years

For our Swithearts on the other side of the pond 🇺🇸 Stay safe

Brad Heath

@bradheath

6 years

Federal court says Homeland Security agents can search electronic devices of passengers waiting to board international flights without a search warrant and without "any sort of individualized suspicion."

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

5 years

Hey team! We’re having a few issues with the site. We’re on it and will be back shortly ♥️

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

The app has had a bit of a blip, but don’t worry things are looking good 😎 ...but not as good as you 💜

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

We’ve been having some network issues today, @chendo and @Zemmiph0bia are on the case

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

And we’re back! As always we we’ll be monitoring things and making a few more performance tweaks in the next few days Happy tooting 💜

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Thank you for the mention @MsMaggieMayhem 😘

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Alright folks, everything is up and running again! Happy tooting!

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

@Ms_Sophia_Rose Awesome! Taken on board :) Reviews were a rumor that got WAYYY out of hand but we'll be taking a stance against that. Another review site is not what we want. Thanks Sophia! If you have anymore, send the on through.

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Site is experiencing some problems for some users. Team are on it.

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@SwitterSocial

6 years

And we're back.

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@SwitterSocial

6 years

We think we’ve isolated the issue to a bug in some of the software that we use to help run the servers of Switter. We’ll give another update at 6:30AM AEST. Access will be intermittent.

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@SwitterSocial

6 years

And we’re back.

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@SwitterSocial

6 years

We are aware that some folks are still experiencing issues and we’re working to fix it <3

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Reminder that we’re going down for maintenance in 15 minutes. toot toot

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@SwitterSocial

6 years

Services should be coming back up. Happy tooting

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Switter

@SwitterSocial

6 years

Oh hey! We got a mention :D

Kate

@KateDAdamo

6 years

Watch as @JinxLierre —an anarchist sex worker—goes to Washington—to fight FOSTA and SESTA, with our online freedoms hanging in the balance. Also featuring @LiaraRoux .

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@SwitterSocial

6 years

Sorry for that unscheduled downtime, we’re back now!

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