jrollans.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
And we are back! Now running from a server in my kid's bedroom 🥳
The documentation at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/migrating/ is really really really good, and it all went off without a hitch, except for my CloudFlare tunnel setup, which I'll blog about shortly.
Sometime over the next few days I intend to migrate this instance to a server running in a closet in my home (currently hosted at Hetzner, but getting expensive, to I invested about half a year's worth of hosting cost into buying a physical device).
Wish me luck everyone 🤞
The February 2026 Trunk & Tidbits is posted. Our monthly engineering update, including progress on 4.6, our AI contribution policy, upcoming end-of-life for version 4.3, some posts about the Share button, and more.
#MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/trunk-tidbits-february-2026/
I started using my new #mastodon instance https://fraxoweb.social about 2 days ago.
- I'm alone on it
- I follow around 145 people
Yesterday, I was worrying about my media #storage because it was going crazy.
So I set a 1 day media retention, which is probably very aggressive.
But it worked, and feel a bit relived.
Our Mastodon instance "burningboard.net" now internally **ONLY** uses the Internet Protocol in Version 6. I did successfully migrate away from any RFC1918 addresses in any of the internal infrastructure connections.
Nginx -> Mastodon: IPv6
Mastodon -> PostgreSQL: IPv6
Mastodon -> Opensearch: IPv6
Mastodon -> Sidekiq: IPv6
Mastodon -> Loki: IPv6
Sidekiq -> PostgreSQL: IPv6
Prometheus -> Mastodon: IPv6
All using globally routed unique addresses and proper routing and packet filtering from "pf" (FreeBSD).
Outbound connections to legacy hosts (for example for Federation) uses NAT64 over Tayga.
Inbound the Nginx is the only component, that supports IPv4 on NAT on a best-effort approach. But I refuse to put a lot of work into this. We have 2026 and it's a dying, smelly protocol, that I don't even monitor anymore.
If someone looks at the Firewall rules.. Yes, we do run a (private) Factorio Server on our Mastodon system
Hetzner, which many instances rely on, just announced a major across the board price hike. A 30% increase isn’t minor.
For larger companies it’s a budget line. For small Mastodon instances, it’s the line between sustainable and underwater.
When servers jump from €49.99 to €64.99 and storage rises too, admins feel it first. Many already subsidize costs.
Some will downsize. Some may shut down.
Decentralization still runs on invoices.
Support your instances.
Just a quick note for #MastoAdmin 's using the #Universeodon Relay.
The relay is one of the last things to get moved now onto our new infrastructure, I'm about to start making the configuration changes and DNS updates which will mean our new load balancer infrastructure will start to serve requests for the relay as well as finally supporting IPv6 properly.
Later today I will then need to migrate the relay DB and config onto a new server so there will be a short outage later on to the relay while I do this.
Wir veröffentlichen unsere Spam-Listen als Open Source 🛡️
Analyse von 400+ Spam-Accounts auf troet.cafe & muenchen.social:
✅ 192 Spam-E-Mail-Domains
✅ 65 IP-Ranges
Frei nutzbar (CC0) für alle Admins.
We published our spam lists as open source — 192 email domains + 65 IP ranges from 400+ spam accounts. Free to use (CC0).
Something we would really like to have at https://archaeo.social, but haven't been able to find the time for, is a bot that welcomes new users, gives them tips on how to populate their feed, encourages them to make an #introduction post, then automatically boosts it.
Otherwise unfortunately we see that, on a small instance like ours, most new users never get past that initial empty feed.
If anybody wants to take this on, it'd be much appreciated!
Mastodon Admin self hosters who are installed on standard Debian!
Have you moved to Debian 13/Trixie?
@mookie Little worried. Still not up. I have a few good relationships at #horrorhub #MastoAdmin https://social.horrorhub.club/
We hope to supplement and improve existing moderation efforts rather than replace them entirely. It is our hope that by prompting a shift in the responsibility of curating content from instances to their users. Instance operators and their moderation won't feel compelled to act as an arbiter of philosophy by selecting which content may and may not be seen beyond the scope of generally agreed upon illegal or egregious content.
Instead, offering more user agency by providing the tooling, framework and guidance through which they can curtail undesirable content without sorting to suspending entire instances at the expense of the users on there that have done nothing wrong.
Would you be interested in promoting or boosting such efforts?
#FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Fediblock, #Sociology, #Blocklist.
RE: https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/116173390079474741
Suena a una facilitación del #fediblock pero con los administradores.
Me agrada, se ve más eficiente, en especial si algún servidor no toma las medidas correspondientes, otros pueden estar al tanto.