HELLIONS has been running the mastodon fork known as glitch-soc for a week now...

• rationale? markdown support
• other perks like configurable limits I was hand-jamming before
  • max toot size
  • max bio size
  • max # pinned toots
  • max # poll options
  • max size of poll option
• zero downsides detected
• switched after the v4.5.2 upgrade
• no migration required
• could easily switch back
• infosec.exchange runs it too

#MastoAdmin #glitchsoc #fediverse #fedi

https://hellions.cloud/@dannotdaniel/115637191155550237

Now at:

OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #140: Sat Dec  6 14:07:21 MST 2025

#OpenBSD #MastoAdmin

Now at:

```
OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #140: Sat Dec 6 14:07:21 MST 2025
```

#OpenBSD #MastoAdmin

2/ My #Mastodon UI wishlist item include "Modes." Regular, Iages and Video mode. Speaking of images and video, I wished search and the media tab wasn't just "media" with both included but broken down to "images" and "video" abilities #mastoAdmin

@andreklein Thank you! I've heard that quite a lot, though there are other great themes out there too, like @nileane's wonderful Tangerine UI. I originally built this in early 2023 as a quick experiment (you can read the post here: https://mementomori.social/@rolle/109984108360395822), and at first, I didn't plan for it to become a full-fledged theme. I just wanted my Mastodon instance to look more polished, minimal, and reminiscent of how Twitter looked in 2019.

I didn't have time to contribute to Mastodon's core since it was filled with hardcoded colors, so I spent a week creating my own theme. It kind of escalated from there, and before I knew it, I had built a full theme framework that I was developing on daily basis.

Mastodon Bird UI is now quite widely used - most notably it's one of the themes of the @Vivaldi browser's Mastodon instance: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-social-latest-update-built-in-translate-and-themes/

You can see a list of instances using Mastodon Bird UI here: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui?tab=readme-ov-file#list-of-instances-that-use-mastodon-bird-ui

The upcoming Mastodon UI system refactor will make it even easier to port themes, and I hope it brings great things to the community!

#MastoAdmin #MastodonBirdUI

Mastodon Bird UI support for Mastodon v4.6.0 with CSS properties is coming soon. The theme will also be modularized using SCSS partials to match Mastodon's new style infrastructure.

The build process will include npm scripts and Parcel, making the theme ultra-portable for any Mastodon instance, whether added through the Custom CSS textarea or directly by a Mastodon admin.

I'll also create a simple bash script for Mastodon admins to enable the theme as a selectable option more easily than the current fork-and-cut method.

This is no easy feat, but definitely worth it.

GitHub: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui

Progress in the nightly branch.

#MastodonBirdUI #CSS #OpenSource #MastoAdmin #Theming #BirdUI #Mastodon #BuildInPublic

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Screenshot of Mastodon v4.6.0-alpha.1 + Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0rc

Over 5,100 unique #Tencent IPs triggered the ban within roughly 2-3 hours of this scenario going live. These guys don't mess around...

#MastoAdmin #CrowdSec

Ich bin gespannt, ob nach der Umstellung auf alles weiterhin so reibungslos läuft wie unter 🫣

https://blog.hofstede.it/migrating-burningboardnet-mastodon-instance-to-a-multi-jail-freebsd-setup/index.html

#burningboard #mastodon #mastoadmin #linux #bsd

Another interesting adventure from the life of a #MastoAdmin: "Where do all these requests come from?"

These spikes come and go on a fairly steady rhythm (each ~60 minutes). I found this to be interesting, so I investigated which URLs are being requested the most during these spikes.

Turns out: It's the emojis. I don't mind as they're being returned early by Varnish, but why so much? 2.5 million times per 24 hours seems like _a lot_.

Two red lines mark the Mastodon 4.5 upgrade.

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A graph showing the requests from NGINX, with a time scale of 24 hours.

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A graph showing the requests from NGINX, with a time scale of 7 days.

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Aggregated logs from NGINX, parsing the URL, and showing the top ten most requested URLs.

Here's a view from seven days earlier. The emojis don't even rank in the top ten most requested URLs.

#MastoAdmin

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A view from the logging, but seven days earlier. It's not showing the emojis at all.

Update on the Tencent crawler situation:

Identified the fingerprint (Chrome/126 on Windows NT 6.1, always from AS132203/132591/45090) and deployed a #CrowdSec scenario to auto-ban them for 90 days.

Already blocked 100+ IPs within the first hour. They rotate constantly, but the fingerprint stays the same.

The attached chart shows traffic from the last 24 hours. All yellow spikes are recurring Tencent crawls.

#Tencent #MastoAdmin

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The attached chart shows traffic from the last 24 hours. All yellow spikes are recurring Tencent crawls.

i fucking hate mastodon quote posts

why did they have to fuck it up and make it suck instead of just following what every other fedi software already does

#MastoAdmin #mastodon #quote #QuotePosts

With mastodon's new Wrapstodon thing rolling out on their own instance, I went hunting on how to generate these reports.

Thanks to @lutoma who provided me with instructions, I've written a short blog post on this here:

https://blog.thms.uk/2024/12/how-to-run-wrapstodon?utm_source=mastodon

You must have the latest nightly version on your instance.

The UI of this is serious weird and out of sync with the rest of Mastodon though....

#Wrapstodon #mastoadmin

What is the official / correct way to change max chars for posts etc on my server in 2025?
Mastodon v4.5.2

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

@billy what up Billy? Also the #mastoadmin tag may help here

@seano just learned that hashtag exists, fml

ok so get this

- migrated mastodon to docker
- set rails_serve_static_files to true
- nginx refers all /packs uris to docker
- yet a couple of the files return 404, but others in the same folder return fine - and ALL of them returning 404 are in the folder JUST LIKE THE OTHERS??!!? AND THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THEM!!?

done testing without nginx, defo not an nginx misconfiguration and it's something to do with docker

AAAAAAAAHHHHHH

#mastoadmin

Any good guides to upgrading #elasticsearch on Debian from 7.* to 9.*? Is it as simple as changing the repo and running apt-get or is it more advanced? #mastoAdmin

Wondering if I should change to opensearch while I am at it. Is there a guide for that. Web search is awful and I've had no luck finding anything that even remotely would please me regarding upgrading tasks

@paul @danny I’ll just point out that I haven’t upgraded to 4.6.x myself yet but did run the 4.4 and 4.5 alphas.

https://mastoreqs.com is my go to reference for system dependencies. For internal Mastodon changes I look at the commits since I last updated to see if there’s anything to be aware of.

#mastoadmin

How do I find the latest v4.6.0 alpha on Github?

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

really, really impressed with posty: a mastodon archive -> html static site generator

it ingests your mastodon archive (post history) as a zip, and barfs out an entire static html site with indices and tags. all servable with any standard web server.

this is super helpful because when i shut down the dialup.cafe instance, there was no easy way to get access to my old posts and images.

it can either be run online here:
https://posty.1sland.social

or instructions here for running it locally:
https://codeberg.org/oliphant/posty

#mastoAdmin #mastodon

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a user profile page for @vga256@dialup.cafe. it shows the user's profile pic (a fox) and a background banner (a beyond hypercard screenshot, drawn by robin miller)

Made progress on issue 172 today, but the rest of the evening goes to playing Fortnite with my son. And that's fine by me, loving our win streak. First things first.

https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui/issues/172

#MementoMoriSocial #MastoAdmin

Hey #fediverse, is there an activitypub application similar to meetup? I would really like to add a trail ride planning platform to Dirt Social and i'm curious if something already exists.

I thought i remembered seeing one somewhere. but i can't find it now.

Thanks!

#mastoadmin #activitypub