This has, unfortunately, resulted in the slander of our instance. Branded as allegedly being "anti-moderation" and "bigoted" for choosing not to punish their users over frivolous reports or engage in the fediblock of the more fringe or controversial instances on here ourselves.

So Fedizens, what are your thoughts?

Tags: #FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #Sociology, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Politics, #Fediblock, #Blocklist.

What I mean specifically are these endless toggles everywhere. Click-click-click-click. Before it was just a click.

Also, why change the most used hashtags into a horizontal list? And what's with that huge button to show more pinned items? What was wrong with the old setup? The carousel wasn't great either, but I liked the version that showed them one below the other.

What problems are we actually trying to solve here?

I know these aren't shipped yet, but does anyone actually use Figma and discuss UX?

#UI #UX #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

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Toggles in Mastodon UI

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Button in Mastodon UI

I feel like my Mastodon fork will eventually go completely off-branch since I've been cherry-picking features anyway after 4.5. Some of the core ones just don't make sense to me.

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

Wow, there are a lot of breaking changes in the latest Mastodon nightly. I'm a bit surprised by some of the UI choices being made. I haven't been able to refactor all the code in Mastodon Bird UI yet, and I already have quite a bit of technical debt. This won't make my life any easier. I hope I get some breathing room before 4.6.0 is released.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI

In part due to the Twitter exodus and the platform predominantly being made up of free and open source enthusiasts. Consequentially, you'll occasionally see reports from Mastodon instances listed as @admin@instance.tld that include no context with the report or have flagged a post that we cannot act upon as per the guidelines of our instance and even sometimes their own. Such has been the case for us with Fosstodon, though their admin @fosstodon@fosstodon.org were rather chill in our communication.

I've personally found that a lot of online communities tend to have rather broad and opaque rules that are often left up to interpretation. That way, anyone can justify their actions as being in accordance with the spirit of the rule and get away with a lot of abusive stuff in the process. I suspect between that and the tendency of people to rely on moderation to curate their online experience rather than exercising their ability to mute and block may have given way to a culture of vibe-based reporting. Where anything that may not sit right with a person is free game for reporting.

Tags: #FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #Sociology, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Politics, #Fediblock, #Blocklist.

@fen@zoner.work @xaetacore@neondystopia.world

RE: https://neondystopia.world/notes/aj0188lb2mm100w3

Saorsa » 🌐 2026-02-21
@Saorsa@neondystopia.world

Something I believe may be warrant discussion is how each instance is beholden to the rules of another by virtue of federation. Something that has given way to vibes-based reporting which our administrator has been unable to act on.

This has, unfortunately, resulted in the slander of our instance. Branded as allegedly being "anti-moderation" and "bigoted" for choosing not to punish their users over frivolous reports or engage in the fediblock of the more fringe or controversial instances on here ourselves.

So Fedizens, what are your thoughts?

Tags: #FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #Sociology, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Politics, #Fediblock, #Blocklist.

The natural consequence of that is they've built themselves a spacious echo chamber consisting mostly of liberal and progressive-minded people. In part due to the Twitter exodus and the platform predominantly being made up of free and open source enthusiasts.

Consequentially, you'll occasionally see reports from Mastodon instances listed as @admin@instance.tld that include no context with the report or have flagged a post that we cannot act upon as per the guidelines of our instance and even sometimes their own.

Such has been the case for us with Fosstodon, though their admin @fosstodon@fosstodon.org were rather chill in our communication.

I've personally found that a lot of online communities tend to have rather broad and opaque rules that are often left up to interpretation. That way, anyone can justify their actions as being in accordance with the spirit of the rule and get away with a lot of abusive stuff in the process. I suspect between that and the tendency of people to rely on moderation to curate their online experience rather than exercising their ability to mute and block may have given way to a culture of vibe-based reporting. Where anything that may not sit right with a person is free game for reporting.

Tags: #FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #Sociology, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Politics, #Fediblock, #Blocklist.

@fen@zoner.work @xaetacore@neondystopia.world

RE: https://neondystopia.world/notes/aj0188lb2mm100w3

Saorsa » 🌐 2026-02-21
@Saorsa@neondystopia.world

Something I believe may be warrant discussion is how each instance is beholden to the rules of another by virtue of federation. Something that has given way to vibes-based reporting which our administrator has been unable to act on.

This has, unfortunately, resulted in the slander of our instance. Branded as allegedly being "anti-moderation" and "bigoted" for choosing not to punish their users over frivolous reports or engage in the fediblock of the more fringe or controversial instances on here ourselves.

So Fedizens, what are your thoughts?

Tags: #FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #Sociology, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Politics, #Fediblock, #Blocklist.

The natural consequence of that is they've built themselves a spacious echo chamber consisting mostly of liberal and progressive-minded people. In part due to the Twitter exodus and the platform predominantly being made up of free and open source enthusiasts.

Consequentially, you'll occasionally see reports from Mastodon instances listed as @admin@instance.tld that include no context with the report or have flagged a post that we cannot act upon as per the guidelines of our instance and even sometimes their own.

Such has been the case for us with Fosstodon, though their admin @fosstodon@fosstodon.org were rather chill in our communication.

I've personally found that a lot of online communities tend to have rather broad and opaque rules that are often left up to interpretation. That way, anyone can justify their actions as being in accordance with the spirit of the rule and get away with a lot of abusive stuff in the process.

I suspect between that and the tendency of people to rely on moderation to curate their online experience rather than exercising their ability to mute and block may have given way to a culture of vibe-based reporting. Where anything that may not sit right with a person is free game for reporting.

Tags: #FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #Sociology, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Politics, #Fediblock, #Blocklist.

@fen@zoner.work @xaetacore@neondystopia.world

RE: https://neondystopia.world/notes/aj0188lb2mm100w3

Saorsa » 🌐 2026-02-21
@Saorsa@neondystopia.world

Something I believe may be warrant discussion is how each instance is beholden to the rules of another by virtue of federation. Something that has given way to vibes-based reporting which our administrator has been unable to act on.

This has, unfortunately, resulted in the slander of our instance. Branded as allegedly being "anti-moderation" and "bigoted" for choosing not to punish their users over frivolous reports or engage in the fediblock of the more fringe or controversial instances on here ourselves.

So Fedizens, what are your thoughts?

Tags: #FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #Sociology, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Politics, #Fediblock, #Blocklist.

This has, unfortunately, resulted in the slander of our instance. Branded as allegedly being "*anti-moderation*" and "bigoted" for choosing not to punish their users over frivolous reports or engage in the fediblock of the more fringe or controversial instances on here ourselves.

So Fedizens, what are your thoughts?

#Meta, #FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #TrustAndSafety #Moderation, #FediAdmin, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #SocialMedia, #Sociology, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #hashtag.

Our Mastodon instance burningboard.net now supports HTTP/3 (QUIC).

HTTP/3 replaces TCP with UDP as its transport protocol, offering lower latency and better performance, especially on lossy or low-bandwidth networks.

If you encounter any unexpected issues, feel free to drop me a message 🙂

#mastodon #mastoadmin #http3 #quic

An account publishing recursive quoted post. #mastoadmin and #mastoadmins, is this authorized in your instance?

From: @Valnao
https://sh.itjust.works/post/55674083

Just a #MASTOADMIN notice

Scheduled Maintenance Notice:

Journa.host will be completely offline for planned maintenance on Sunday, February 22, from 8:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight.

Newsie.social will be completely offline for planned maintenance on Tuesday, February 24 from 8:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight.

All times are PACIFIC

We appreciate your patience and understanding as the team completes their work.

The landing page of our Mastodon instance burningboard.net is now bilingual, offering not only German but also English for our international visitors.

It features introductions to Mastodon and the Fediverse, helpful information for newcomers and people coming from the "birdsite" as well as information about our philosophy, rules and more.

See it here:
https://meta.burningboard.net

#mastodon #fediverse #mastoadmin #website #international #burningboard

The landing page for our Mastodon instance burningboard.net has been translated to English as well. Does someone have a look and give me feedback about it? Would be highly appreciated!

URL: https://meta.burningboard.net/beta/

#mastodon #mastoadmin #translation #website

Hallo #mastoadmin
Jemand eine Idee wie ich die Fehlermeldung beim Update von Mastodon behebe?

npm error code ERESOLVE
npm error ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree
npm error
npm error While resolving: @mastodon/mastodon@undefined
npm error Found: react@18.3.1
npm error node_modules/react
npm error react@"^18.2.0" from the root project
npm error
npm error Could not resolve dependency:
npm error peer react@"^0.14.0 || ^15.0.0-0 || ^16.0.0 || ^17.0.0" from emoji-mart@3.0.1-j
npm error node_modules/emoji-mart
npm error emoji-mart@"npm:emoji-mart-lazyload@latest" from the root project
npm error
npm error Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
npm error this command with --force or --legacy-peer-deps
npm error to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.

#update #upgrade #help

Apparently some jackass just tried to register @social and @noreply on my server.

#mastoadmin

I'm only asking this because I'm curious to know, but is there a Mastodon v5.0.0 remotely in the works right now?

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

Been fiddling with #Sidekiq today to try and improve the performance of my Mastodon instance.

Beginning to suspect #Postgresql is the weak link, but not sure what else I can do with that (I know about PGTune)

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

Thinking about moving my instance to docker. In your experience, are there any downsides besides the migration itself?

#mastodon #mastoadmin #docker #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab

#MastoAdmins - if you have problems with the "Fetch All Replies" function in v4.4 and 4.5 of Mastodon, check your "pull queue" in Sidekiq.

The function was working for me for a while, but then I started getting a circular "loading" icon at the bottoms of threads, and the remote replies would never appear.

This may have been because I added some more relays recently.

After chatting with some other admins in the Matrix support channel, I checked my Sidekiq queues, and there were 1.2m entries 😱

I found this article https://thomas-leister.de/en/scaling-up-mastodon/, which mentions splitting up the queue pollers into different services and I saw the same symptoms, htop was showing sidekiq's 25 threads, but only 1 of them was actually busy, and using 100% CPU, where other CPUs were mostly idle.

My machine is pretty beefy - A VM on SSDs, 4 vCPUs (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz) and 48gb RAM, so the bottleneck is the lack of proper automatic multithreading in Sidekiq?

In the end I followed Thomas' instructions, and created 2 extra system services that just serviced the Mastodon "pull" queue (1 was not enough).

9 days later, the queue is now at 0, and reading posts in Mastodon now seems to pull in the new replies again 🥳

I have now disabled one of the 1 pull queue services, in the hope that one for the pull queue is enough.

😅

#MastoAdmin

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Screenshot of my Sidekiq queue, showing 999,879 items in the pull queue!

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Graph showing the drop in pull queue items over the last week. Processing seems to be linear.

yeah no i love it when the S3 server crashes at night

*prioritizes "create automatic fail recovery" in her todo*

#mastoadmin #fediadmin #garage

So, I built a new instance and you can find me at @mookie@weredreaming.com.

That doesn't mean that https://lifeiswoohoo.net is going away, it's staying for a while -- but lifeiswoohoo.net will be the instance that goes away if I ever want to change domains.

We're Dreaming (https://weredreaming.com) is an attempt at having an instance with permanence. It is where I plan to write and post without having posts disappear when I move instances, because it's obvious I'll always want to be building and destroying instances.

I'm still figuring out what I'll be posting here and what I'll be posting at We're Dreaming. But the initial thought is that more personal posts will go on We're Dreaming along with my movie posts.

I have already followed those of you that I interact with on a regular basis, if you wouldn't mind following back that would be awesome.

I am keeping the We're Dreaming account as one where I approve followers.

#fediverse #fediadmin #snac #snac2 #mastodon #mastoadmin #home