@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#mastoadmin is there perhaps a way to mark some remote accounts as "outdated", delete their avatars/headers, and then have mastodon re-fetch those next time it tries to show them?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 😜

Alt...

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

Alt...

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

RE: https://don.linxx.net/@ose_rouge/115413938019772042

Exakt der Trupp ist auf Bluesky sehr aktiv in Bezug auf Mobilisierung und Stimmungsmache zum 17.01. in Connewitz. Deshalb (weiterhin) die Instanz @linksextrem.ist blocken, bitte. #MastoAdmin #FediBlock

#Connewitz #ConneIsland #LinXXNet #L1701 #Antisemitismus.

RE: https://goingdark.social/@fanfare/115726138546662109

This outage showed me how much I love this little instance. At the same time, it reminded me that I won't be able to run it completely alone forever.

Teaming up with others would make it stronger and more fun for everyone.If you're interested in helping out, whether you already know Kubernetes or Mastodon administration or you're just curious and willing to learn, please DM me.

Experience isn't required. Enthusiasm is what matters.It could be reviewing configs, handling updates, writing wiki pages, moderating reports, or jumping in for bigger moments.

Occasional help is welcome, and becoming a co-admin would be amazing.

No pressure at all. I'd just love to share the journey with someone who cares about the Fediverse. Thank you! ❤️

#MastodonAdmin #Kubernetes #Fediverse #Community #parenting #mastoadmin

We have moved to approval-required registration in response to coordinated bot attacks affecting the fediverse. This protects our users, but the platform forces a binary choice: open registration that enables spam and harassment, or approval queues that lose legitimate users to friction.

The fediverse deserves better. There is an open proposal for improved registration options that would benefit instances across the network: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36747

If your instance has faced similar challenges, or if you believe better moderation tools would strengthen the fediverse, please engage with this proposal. This affects all of us.

Registration will reopen when it's safe to do so. The fediverse should not be an exclusive place. This is a temporary measure, taken as a last resort to protect not just our users, but to minimize the impact these attacks have on the wider network.

#mastoadmin #goingdark

Dear #Mastodon users and #MastoAdmin: Why am unable to follow @devontechnologies@devontechnologies.com from my personal instance (from which I am posting this)?

Entering my instance name in the other instance’s Follow dialog results in this link, which gives me a generic Mastodon error page: https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/authorize_interaction?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.devontechnologies.com%2Fusers%2Fdevontechnologies

Am I possibly misconfigured, or are they?

Why do you sometimes get filtered notifications? How are they "flagged" and what does it signify? #mastoadmin

Have any Mastodon administrators managed to migrate their server to a different physical machine without significant downtime? Considering this by spinning up a replica and multiple web servers, and then switching over the databases... if that's possible. #MastoAdmin

We take data-safety of our Mastodon user data serious and have implemented multiple levels of backups with rigorous bi-yearly restore tests and documentation.

We do:
- Periodic local file system snapshots (Every 15 minutes).

- Filesystem replication to backup-server in Germany (Hetzner, Falkenstein).

- Filesystem replication to second backup-server in Switzerland (Equinix ZH4, Zürich).

- GPG Encrypted Application-layer backup (PostgreSQL, Mastodon configuration) to server from @tux in Germany.

Every single of those backup-layers is monitored, tested (and recover-tested) bi-yearly at least.

Our infrastructure runs on FreeBSD/ZFS with one backup-layer using "zfs send/recv" plus an addition application backup layer that's using pg_dump+gpg. Just to be on the safe side.

All backup-jobs are monitored and the status (success/fail) is transperently visible on https://status.burningboard.net/

#mastodon #mastoadmin #freebsd #zfs #backups #digitalindipendence

We have some network issues. #mastoadmin

This month's Mastodon Hosting Invoice is a good kick-up-the-arse for me to make some changes in 2026.

In the meantime, a big THANK YOU to everyone who contribute cash to the running costs. If you want to join that gang, use the links below:

https://qr.vipps.no/box/6fc8a0e2-8c86-41b4-a150-61eb93bb9185/pay-in
https://ko-fi.com/oslotown
https://www.patreon.com/oslotown
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=WXPRUQKVRASHN

Goodnight

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Oslo #Allheimen #Fediverse #NorskTut

Seit einigen Tagen werden Medien meiner Mastodon-Instanz metalhead.club global verteilt über ein eigenes CDN ausgeliefert.

Das verringert die Latenzen für Benutzer aus nicht-EU Ländern und sorgt für weniger Frust bei den Ladezeiten.

Was ein CDN ist, welche Implementierungsmethoden es gibt und wie ich mein kleines CDN umgesetzt habe, erfahrt ihr in meinem neuen Blogpost:

"Ein eigenes kleines CDN für meine Mastodon-Instanz metalhead.club" - https://thomas-leister.de/mastodon-media-storage-cdn/

#metalheadclub #cdn #media #mastodon #instance #mastoadmin #hosting #selfhosting #nginx #scaleway #dns #geoip #geodns #hetzner

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Eine Weltkarte zeigt die Zugriffslatenzen auf den Metalhead.club Medienspeicher.

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

Another migration complete. Our Mastodon instance burningboard.net now has a working full-text search again!

Before:
Elasticsearch 7.x on Debian Linux

Now:
Opensearch 3.2.0 on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE

Importing 2 billion(!) docs into the search index took a couple of hours, but now that piece of infrastructure is also modernized and fully operational.

For performance reasons, opensearch runs on a seperate physical server than the rest of the Mastodon instance itself.

#elasticsearch #opensearch #linux #freebsd #mastodon #mastoadmin /cc @tux

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

Does anyone know why using tootctl to bulk import emoji gives me a networking error? I feel like this has to do with my usage of S3 storage. I ran RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl emoji import emoji.tar.gz and got /home/mastodon/live/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.4.0/gems/net-protocol-0.2.2/lib/net/protocol.rb:229:in 'Net::BufferedIO#rbuf_fill': Net::ReadTimeout with #<TCPSocket:(closed)> (Seahorse::Client::NetworkingError)

#mastodon #mastoadmin

Perhaps someone can recommend some good relays one can add to a newly-created Mastodon instance to help with federation?

#mastodon #selfhosting #mastoadmin

Okay, I think #Universeodon should now be up, running and stable. There were a couple of bits I missed when I had deployed everything ready for the DB migration so we ran into some issues where we just got crushed with load and the server couldn't handle it properly.

It has flagged some other issues that I wasn't expecting when it comes to capacity and load but those are things I should be able to solve in due course and as part of moving MastodonAppUK over.

#MastoAdmin