I never could have guessed that so many would join. Thank you for staying here.

#MementomoriSocial #MastoAdmin

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21 new users, 377 active users, 50953 interactions, 12 reports opened, 12 reports resolved

@nullagent Hey, saw your post and its a tough situation - I'm trying to understand your sudden increase in hosting costs (as a fellow instance owner), and if you have the spoons to reply, I have a question:

Is the traffic cost spike primarily due to the 57MB video posted last week, or was it from something else?

Sorry that you got a surprise bill, hope to see you continue to be here on the fediverse.

post in question: https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/115855264692832839 #mastoadmin

This message is intended for Canadian #Mastodon admins who are running public instances large and small. If you are an admin, please share with your counterparts. If you are a member of a Canadian instance, please send this to your admin.
A small group of us (Note: really, really small) are in early discussions on how to encourage our government - individual politicians & federal, provincial, and municipal departments - to move their social media presence to Mastodon. This would involve an awareness campaign targeting politicians, party HQs, and departments/agencies.
We are asking for input from admins to help us create a future state vision for this project, and provide us with advice or ideas on how to bring it to a reality. I will set up a web call within the next 3 weeks and hopefully you can participate. We are not asking you to contribute beyond input. Please DM me and I will add you to the invitees.

#mastoadmin
#MastodonCanada
#MastoCanadaGOV (hashtag for this project)

CC: @ZebKing

Here at toot.boston, the state of the instance is solid - our fedi.monster hosting continues to be excellent, and our users are great.

This account stays pretty quiet - I mostly use it to keep tabs on chatter from other #MastoAdmin instance owners.

Its good to build and nurture community wherever you are -all we have is each other - hoping you and yours are healthy in the New Year, and best of luck out there! 💜 🍀 🍭 #fediverse #boston

Just a note for some of the other #MastoAdmin 's out there - On Universeodon.com we've seen a huge number of reports for an account due to it being a new account with no posts and a very large follower / following count.

As far as I can currently see and based on the info provided when they requested an account it's migrating from another instance. As far as I can see the account is in fact legitimate but we will keep an eye as I appreciate it is "Weird" having a 0 post account with thousands of followers / following relationships all of a sudden.

If anyone does see anything weird with any of the accounts on the instances please do report it as it is appreciated. I can't directly reply to these reports so didn't want folks to think it had been entirely ignored!

CC #Fediblock

Pre-released Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-3: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui/releases/tag/4.0.0-alpha.0-3

tl;dr: It now includes a build system and is much lighter than the previous versions. Only compatible with Mastodon 4.6.0 alpha versions.

#MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #OpenSource #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

We've successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.2+mementomods-2026-01-11, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-3.

This update includes today's latest daily build with 54 new commits from upstream.

What's new (Mastodon core):

🔒 Security
- Fixed SSRF protection bypass
- Fixed ownership check in severed relationships

🐛 Bug Fixes
- Custom emojis now render correctly in profile fields
- Video modals no longer pushed down on mobile
- Fixed custom emojis in CWs and notifications
- Fixed hashtag autocomplete issues
- Mentions of domain-blocked users no longer processed

✨ Improvements
- New emoji search functionality
- Better HTTP signature handling

Check out our fork source code:
https://github.com/mementomori-social

Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-3 is still a work in progress in the nightly branch. It's not 100% ready, but it's stable.

As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts.

#MementomoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

@t3rminus

They've been quite busy on Mastodon all today, Saturday, but it is the weekend, so...

I'd heard a very little of them over the last week; they seem to be very busy with a very intense self-promotion campaign

I'm tired of it; I've Muted and Blocked several of the most prolific personalities, and Domain Blocked the entire thing generally

They have nothing to offer me

YMMV...

Here: @theforkiverse.com

#Forkiverse #Mastoadmin

So I'm going through the admin trends panel to approve hashtags for trending, and "forkiverse" is in 4th.

It appears to be some new instance created by and promoted by a podcast, and the hashtag is mostly intro posts... with a bunch of photos taken while people are driving, and some with AI slop.

I sincerely don't know if I should approve this. I'm all for new fedi instances, but I immediately have issues with the content being posted...

#mastoadmin

In the last week alone our instance has moved nearly half a terabyte of traffic per day.

When I first setup this instance I was stably housed and had an awesome internet connection so the primary costs were power and admin time. At that time it only cost about $50/mo to host.

However since that time life circumstances have made me housing insecure and forced our instance to be run in the cloud, increasing our costs to $150 - $200 / mo

https://ko-fi.com/dataparty

#MastoAdmin #Housing #Homeless

Our instance is currently facing a $180 hosting bill and I just got notification that our services may be degraded (prior to the bill's due date).

I'm not immediately able cover but feel our instance hosts critical protest coverage currently and historically over the passed few years.

We have about two weeks to locate the needed funds.

Can you spare few bucks to keep the lights on?

$0 / $200

https://ko-fi.com/dataparty

#PartyOn #MutualAidRequest #mastoadmin

So it seems that #Cloudflare’s “Bot fight mode” completely breaks federation. Best avoided on your #Pixelfed, #Mastodon and I assume other AP services.

#MastoAdmin

#mastoadmin is there perhaps a way to mark some remote accounts as "outdated", delete their avatars/headers, and then have mastodon re-fetch those next time it tries to show them? It doesn't look like something extremely complex, does anyone know if that's possible?

One for #mastoadmin - I have reason to believe the UK government may ban Twitter within a week or two, so you may see an influx of users.

Be prepared to close registrations early in order to prevent server instability, it will automatically direct users to other servers for sign up.

#mastoadmin moessingen.social wurde soeben auf die Mastodon Version 5.4.5 aktualisisert.

Bei Problemen bitte Bescheid geben!

Außerdem: #hunde #dogs #mastodogs 😜

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Emil und Jussi spielen im Schnee

Head's up, there appears to be someone (or entity) cloning people off Twitter onto Mastodon and (attempting) to use those users to send out spam/scams/etc. All the "cloned" people are showing up on Mastodon.social at the moment. #MastoAdmin

A new @iftas report brings insights from fediverse moderators, administrators, and community managers: worsening mod-to-user ratio, spam, burnout, lack of tools.

"Moderators are the backbone of a safer social web – but most are unpaid, under-supported, and under constant strain. If we want a future for decentralised platforms that respects user agency, civil speech, and community autonomy, we need to support the infrastructure that keeps it safe."

https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/

#fediverse #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #SocialMedia #IFTAS

Did upgrade all the remaining service jails on our burningborad.net Mastodon instance to FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE today, after the host was already upgraded one and a half week ago.

Everything running smoothly :) Only nodejs in the mastodonweb jail needed some additional "convincing" and a deletion of the node_modules folder plus a fresh "yarn install --frozen-lockfile"

Now everything is up to date again 🙂

#freebsd #bastillebsd #jails #sysadmin #mastoadmin #upgrade #mastodon

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Screenshot of "bastille list", showing that all Jails (database, factorio, mastodonsidekiq, mastodonweb and nginx) run on 15.0-RELEASE (the latest FreeBSD release)

#Mastodon Update 4.5.4 ✅
#mastoadmin

Whoop whoop. Wir sind kurz weg. Damit es für euch bisschen sicherer wird ;)
Wir aktualisieren auf V4.5.4

Bis gleich

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

#MastoAdmin #AfterSpace

I'm getting Vite Failed with v4.5.4 upgrade from vanilla v4.5.3 installed. #MastoAdmin

'baseline-browser-mapping data in this module is over two months old. To ensure accurate Baseline data, please update: npm i baseline-browser-mapping@latest -D

PID #### Exit 137.
Build with Vite Failed X'

#Mastodon

phpc.social is now running on Mastodon 4.5.4, released about an hour and 40 minutes ago. #mastoAdmin

Die Instanz https://watzmann.social läuft jetzt mit Softwareversion v4.5.4

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.4

#mastodon #mastoadmin #upgrade

Die Instanz https://bayerwald.social läuft jetzt mit Softwareversion v4.5.4

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.4

#mastodon #mastoadmin #upgrade

As a bit of a different one, I have just had an e-mail from Nick who founded and setup #MedMastodon after I offered to take over the site following it's short notice closure just before the new year, he has come back now to confirm he's happy for me to take on the running the maintenance of the site and has looped in the team from Masto.Host to progress this.

I'm hoping that means we can get the site back up and running in the not too distant future and I'll look to get it migrated over to the same infrastructure that we use for MastodonApp.UK and Universeodon.com to hopefully give some better flexibility for growth and benefit from the existing work and scale in place.

I'll keep folks updated as and when I hear more and as we progress getting the site back online.

#MastoAdmin

If you value free speech, you get your friends and family onto the fediverse RIGHT NOW.

I don't raise the alarm much and I'm a really shitty prepper, but I'm seeing what is going on and I also know the history of WWII.

The moment Trump tries to take Greenland, the gloves are off.

I took Social Studies. We're staring down the barrel of WWIII.

#mastoadmin