Toot.community is shutting down
Jorijn Schrijvershof , @jorijn (open profile) Today, I’m letting you know that toot.community will close permanently on 28 October 2026.This decision is final, and the server won’t be handed over to anyone else.When I started running toot.community, I really enjoyed it. Over time, it became more stressful and less rewarding.Every day, I deal with spam, bots, technical issues, abuse reports, and user conflicts. Much of the moderation ends up being about personal disagreements rather than actual rule-breaking.More importantly, I don’t enjoy how people interact on social media anymore.
- ▪Jorijn Schrijvershof , @jorijn (open profile) Today, I’m letting you know that toot.community will close permanently on 28 October 2026.This decision is final, and the server won’t be handed over to anyone else.When I started running toot.c
- ▪Over time, it became more stressful and less rewarding.Every day, I deal with spam, bots, technical issues, abuse reports, and user conflicts.
- ▪Much of the moderation ends up being about personal disagreements rather than actual rule-breaking.More importantly, I don’t enjoy how people interact on social media anymore.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | jorijn.com |
| Canonical URL | https://social.jorijn.com/@jorijn/statuses/01KYN00AP3NCZXCFB96KQB8GN2 |
| Publication time | Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:33:41 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-30T18:57:29.406Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-30T18:57:29.406Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | zfrOVn4kn9hf · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Jorijn Schrijvershof , @jorijn (open profile) Today, I’m letting you know that toot.community will close permanently on 28 October 2026.This decision is final, and the server won’t be handed over to anyone else.When I started running toot.community, I really enjoyed it. Over time, it became more stressful and less rewarding.Every day, I deal with spam, bots, technical issues, abuse reports, and user conflicts. Much of the moderation ends up being about personal disagreements rather than actual rule-breaking.More importantly, I don’t enjoy how people interact on social media anymore. Too often, conversations turn hostile or confrontational.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at jorijn.com.
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