We didn't have a rule for this on #gardenstatesocial but I'm making it official on our server rules.

We will not allow accounts for companies that are not based in New Jersey.

I was already blocking account that signed up for this purpose. When you ban them and allow the email notification to […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989802242367196

Excited to see if https://gardenstate.social can be added to this experiment.

here are some fun #gardenstatesocial facts that make us a good candidate:

- We are all about finding folks geographically close to us.
- Currently patreon […]

I always use some of the funds from the gardenstate.social patreon to hire illustrators to make art for our instance.

Anyone have good ideas of what kind of art we could commission next?

#gardenstatesocial #newjersey

If you would like to contribute to GardenState.Social's server bills you can join our patreon. https://www.patreon.com/gardenstatesocial

I always worried about being a mastodon admin but so far I've been lucky and only had to tell 1 member to stop making aggressive posts towards other people. Sadly they have not come back but it has kept the #gardenstatesocial community very chill.

Did you know that #gardenstatesocial is the ONLY #nj focused fediverse server?

And 57% of monthly costs are paid for by 8 amazing members?

That's pretty cool! This community is built to last!

#mastodon #fediverse

Hold on to your butts #gardenstatesocial just like threads I'm testing ads on our instance.

TEST OVER. NO ADS. WE WILL STAY USER SUPPORTED, AD FREE, TRACKER FREE.

If you are curious what it looks like when you use an invite like here is a screenshot of the link below.

https://gardenstate.social/invite/GC5yDb6V

#gardenstatesocial

#gardenstatesocial

:gaynewjersey:

:transnewjersey:

I tried to name them so they would be easy to type out but let me know if something else makes sense.

#newjersey #nj

#gardenstatesocial

New emoji -> :newjersey:

Wild we didn't have this already.

what other emoji do we need for new jersey? Send me some ideas and suggestions!

#newjersey #nj

This is the post stuck at the top of the #gardenstatesocial explore page because of some mastodon bug!

shoutout to @h

it was not posted today but instead Jan 20, 2025. The future!