@Larvitz aewsome :) my instance just has me :) so mine only took a few seconds ('pre' and 'post'). and everything is fine! #mastoadmin

social.la10cy.net now is up-to-date :)

✅️ Debian Upgrade 12 -> 13
✅️ PostgreSQL 17 -> 18
✅️ NodeJS 22 -> 24
✅️ Mastodon 4.6.6 -> 4.7.0

#mastoadmin #mastodon #selfhosting #update

Update from the engine room: Burningboard.net just finished updating to Mastodon 4.7.0.

Everything looking stable and functional.

#mastodon #mastoadmin #burningboard

Vacations are finished and spammers and trolls are back to their usual tricks to try and open accounts on the Fediverse. Refused access to 8 accounts.

As a reminder, here are a few tips:
- Is the email legit?
- Is the email and user name meaningful? kwduifb is not meaningful.
- Do the IP addresses point to Tor exit nodes or shady hosting operations?
- Is the reason for joining meaningful or AI generated?

Separately, none of these are enough to refuse access, but together...

#MastoAdmin

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Screenshot of a text file explaining why each account has been denied access to SDF (too much information for an alt text)

Йо, ни у кого из селфхостеров инстанса mastodon-sidekiq не протекал памятью? У меня ласт месяц раз в 1-2 дня утекает за 6гб
аномально...

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Yo, has anyone who self-hosts a Mastodon instance had memory leaks with sidekiq? For the past month, mine has been leaking over 6GB abnormally every couple of days...

#mastoadmin |

Mastodon admins!

If you have extremely urgent info (e.g. data breach warnings, server closure announcements) you can email it directly to your users:

1. Go to Preferences > Administration > Announcements
2. If you haven't already, create & publish urgent announcement
3. After announcement has been published, go back to Preferences > Administration > Announcements and click "✉️ Notify Users" below urgent announcement
4. Check email is correct, then click "Send X emails"

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

I did a ton of work on the Tech Field Day Mastodon instance - migrated to a big fat internal server and Cloudflare R2! Monthly cost drops from almost $100 to under $5 and performance and supportability ought to be much better.

#Mastoadmin

Now that our entire stack has been migrated and upgraded, we'll be interested in hearing how it's working. Tons of optimizations done and we're good for the next year!

#Mastoadmin

Buenas tardes, pues es de tarde aquí en #ElSalvador, les comento que hace poco he agregado un nuevo episodio en mi #podcast cuando tengan alguna ocasión oportuna oigan lo más reciente expresado, y de serles posible compartan vuestras opiniones sobre lo expresado a través de las redes sociales. por cierto he mejorado el audio de la intro https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episodio-30-noctambulo-escritor-sv--74441804 #mastodon #fediverse #fediverso #LATAM #latinoamerica #toot #politica #salvadoreña #nota #viral #mastoadmin #Trending #tendencias

🐦‍⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.1rc1 (nightly) is out. This is the first release since the 4.0.0 stable rewrite in June, and it collects the fixes made since.

The nightly release follows Mastodon main branch (4.8.0-alpha.1). If you are on 4.6.0 stable or 4.7.0, please stay on 4.0.0.

Changelog:
- The More icon is back in the navigation, after upstream made the Icon id optional
- Redesigned the footer under an opened image: smaller icons, readable counters, round hovers, white boost glyph, narrower overlay
- Lists no longer overlap the trends section on short viewports
- Account badges have spacing, so Muted is not flush against a role badge
- Navigation polish: hover pills are not clipped, the compact font below 1080px sticks, the mobile bar sits above the slideout pane, the left navigation scrolls at high zoom
- The install script preserves other installed themes instead of rebuilding themes.yml

Release notes and full changelog: https://github.com/rollecode/mastodon-bird-ui/releases/tag/4.0.1rc1

#MastodonBirdUI #Mastodon #BirdUI #MastoAdmin

We've upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.8.0-alpha.1+mementomods-2026-08-23. That is 53 new commits from upstream since our 15.8.2026 build.

This is a quiet round on the surface. Almost all of the upstream work went into the Mastodon 5.0 redesign, which is behind a switch and not turned on for anyone yet, so there are no new features for you this time, just fixes.

🔧 Fixes & improvements

- Autosuggestions no longer overstay their welcome in languages that do not put spaces between words, such as Japanese and Chinese (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/40217).
- The advanced interface no longer drops /deck from the address bar when you resize the window (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/40180).
- Empty searches now return a clear error instead of running, and searches with no actual term in them are rejected (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/40214 and https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/40196).
- Remote accounts that arrive without a public key no longer cause errors (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/40194).
- Admin statistics no longer count one day wrong at the edges of a time range (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/40193).

🚀 Under the hood

- The 5.0 redesign continued in cards, menus, callouts, modals, the account navigation menu and most of the composer. All of it stays behind a flag, so nothing changes for you yet.
- The heading font changed from Syne to Cal Sans UI, which for now is only used by those redesigned parts (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/40233).
- Mastodon 4.7.0 was released upstream while we sit on the nightly line, so its changelog and security policy came along with this merge. We stay on 4.8.0-alpha.1 (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/40231).
- Servers can now switch on gzip compression for responses (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39927).
- A background job that repaired remote collections is no longer scheduled, and an obsolete admin command for duplicate accounts was removed (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39887 and https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/40232).

📦 Dependency updates

- Routine bumps and translation updates.

The source code of our Mastodon fork: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon

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.

If anything feels off, please let us know!

PS. Mastodon Bird UI nightly branch supports this branch, but still under Unreleased version, so use the branch please, in case you follow our nightly adventures.

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonBirdUI

Out of ~1500 monthly active users on toot.community (out of about 34,000 total), only 90 have transferred their accounts to a different instance so far. Next week will be a month since the announcement.

I really hope more people will move their accounts.

#tootcommunity #mastoadmin

@admin ok I can see it from Ivory. Can anyone else reply if they’re seeing this? #mastoadmin

Is this thing on? If it is, we're running a fully containerized version of Mastodon on a local server with Cloudflare Access tunnels and R2 object storage...
#mastoadmin

We have experienced some slowness on our instance today, mainly due to mild DDoS attacks from bot armies, AI, and scrapers. I'm thinking of adding Cloudflare protections and anti-bot mechanisms, as blocking bots at the web server level is like a game of whack-a-mole. However, this needs careful planning, as we don't want legitimate users to get blocked by accident.

We also do not intend to block all automation, since I use some myself and we want our API to stay reliable. Additionally, when content is shared on other social media or messaging platforms, we still want previews to generate properly.

I'll share an update on our progress later.

#mementoMoriSocial #MastoAdmin #Bots

My little instance is really struggling. The bombshell news from Canada came minutes after the regularly scheduled maintenance tasks started.

Oops.

It will recover, just slowly
- - -
Ma minitiature instance en arrache. La nouvelle explosive du Canada est arrivée quelques minutes après le début des tâches d’entretien régulièrement programmées.

Oups.

Elle va se rétablir, tranquillement.

#MastoAdmin

🚨 585 scammer and spam accounts (including the accounts that continuously promote and defend them)!

All sorted alphabetically by domain first, making it easy to identify which domains may be problematic. 👀

https://github.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse/blob/main/block_spam_scam_users.csv

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Scam #Fraud #Spam #FediBlock

Sip, updated ke v4.7.0+glitch dan beberapa sidecar juga sudah terpasang.

#mastodon #mastoadmin

Upgraded to 4.7 with dash of quadlet magic. Have at it.

https://codeberg.org/darkpixel/Mastodon-Podman-Quadlets

#rootless #quadlets #quadlet #podman #containers #mastodon #sysadmin #mastoadmin #mastodev #deployment

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A sceenshot of theme split running Mastodon 4.7 using Podman quadlets with no issues.

Is tootctl status remove broken in 4.7 or did it hit a bad db lock or something weird 🤔

#MastoAdmin

After spending an age examining cloud hosting providers that are EU sovereign, I'm currently leaning towards OVHCloud. It'll probably be their public cloud config rather than their VPS, but I'll be sure to test beforehand.

I also looked at Hertzner:
- very cheap, but some concerning reviews and very restrictive TOS that is unsuitable for a social network.

and Scaleway:
- cloud servers are very expensive, VPS servers have no guarantee that you keep you assigned IP4

#MastoAdmin

Mastodon 4.7.0 upgrade done ✅
This requires DB migration... bring some time. #mastoadmin

Hallo? Noch alle da? Da war grade eine kleine Erschütterung der Macht (Macht das Update! ;) )

Was ich sagen sollte: brettspiel.space läuft jetzt auf 4.7.0 *woopwoop*

Im Hintergrund laufen noch ein paar Index-Erstellungen, aber die lasse ich jetzt einfach laufen und segle dann mit der Jackdow nach Nassau ;)

#mastoadmin