phpc.social is now running on Mastodon 4.6.2, released ~7 hours ago. We're a bit over a week late upgrading to 4.6; sorry about that.

We're also now on a locally-compiled build of ffmpeg 8.1.2 to mitigate CVEs there. Video uploads should be back to working going forward.

In case anyone else needs to bo this and you're copying from the Mastodon Dockerfile, make sure you symlink to both ffmpeg and ffprobe from /usr/local/bin, otherwise the server won't pick it up.

#mastoAdmin

v4.6.2

This release is made solely to update FFmpeg in our docker container images to fix CVE-2026-8461 (critical severity). It is critical to update if you use our docker container images. If you are not using our docker container images, please make...

https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.2

#glitchsoc #glitch #mastodon #mastoadmin

Anybody know if any big Mastodon servers have enforced MFA for all accounts since the feature in v4.6?

Anybody know how it went in terms of user numbers etc? #mastoadmin

The norm for this instance is weeks or months between new signup requests. Lately we see 1-3 account requests every day.

For now the IP addresses and emails are obvious tells. But this won’t last forever. The reasons for joining have greatly improved, despite being largely non-topical.

I’ve updated the instance description to ask prospective new signups to include in their signup request the two full words our site abbreviates. Let’s see if that helps…

#MastoAdmin #AvGeekSocial

Just found out through Vivaldi's news feed that Tangerine UI for Mastodon is officially EOL as of this month 🧡

The author ran it for nearly three years - hundreds of GitHub stars, 50+ instances, 40k+ users. But keeping it alive meant rebuilding it from scratch every time Mastodon shipped a major release, which just isn't sustainable when the fun of building it is long gone.

Honestly respect the decision. Burnout is real, and forcing yourself to maintain something you no longer use or enjoy helps nobody.

If you loved the theme, the author recommends giving Phanpy a try - apparently it was a big visual inspiration for Tangerine UI anyway.

Rest well, little orange theme 🍊
Thank you @nileane very much for your effort these years.

Source: https://github.com/nileane/TangerineUI-for-Mastodon/releases/tag/v2.5.4-EOL

#Mastodon #TangerineUI #Fediverse #OpenSource #WebUI #MastoAdmin #FOSS

A tip for users of our experimental instance mementomori.social:

You can enable the algorithmic "For you" feed from the top right corner of the Home feed. When you toggle it on, it will instantly switch to a ranked feed that prioritizes posts based on who you follow, who you comment on, what you like and boost, and what's currently trending across the Fediverse.

Unlike Trending tab, For you -feed is personal. The logic is similar to pre-Musk Twitter but user-focused and not corporate-owned.

The Trending tab remains unchanged, and /explore shows posts from roughly the past 6-12 hours, with a strong focus on the most recent ones. A post that gets massive engagement might stick around a bit longer, but most cycle out within half a day. Your own For you page changes every time you click the menu, refresh the page, or return.

This is ongoing, experimental work. The PR draft and source code are available here: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon/pull/4

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #OpenSource #BuildInPublic #Algorithm #AlgorithmicFeed #Algorithms

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A screenshot of For You feed in Mastodon

v4.5.12

Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrade instructions section. Changelog Security Fix TLS...

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.12

#mastodon #mastoadmin

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116806085498460059

Done :-)

#mastoadmin

AodeRelay boosted

Mastodon Engineering » 🌐 2026-06-24
@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social

We just released Mastodon 4.6.1. It contains several important bug fixes and we recommend every instance running 4.6.0 to update.

We are also releasing Mastodon v4.5.12 and v4.4.19 with small bugfixes and a fix to a critical security issue affecting servers using LDAP_TLS_NO_VERIFY=true.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

#mastoadmin

We just released Mastodon 4.6.1. It contains several important bug fixes and we recommend every instance running 4.6.0 to update.

We are also releasing Mastodon v4.5.12 and v4.4.19 with small bugfixes and a fix to a critical security issue affecting servers using LDAP_TLS_NO_VERIFY=true.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

#mastoadmin

Well I would be on v4.6.1 by now, but am getting the following error...

mastodon@strangeminds:~/live$ yarn install --immutable
Usage: yarn [options]

yarn: error: no such option: --immutable

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

New Mastodon Release

v4.6.1

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.1

#Mastodon #Mastoadmin

#MastoAdmins: has anyone had a problem with all quoted posts saying "Post pending", but when I open the post on the original server, the quoted post displays fine? I'm on v4.6.0, but it's been doing it for several versions, but it used to work.

Reloading the page on my server doesn't help either.

Sometimes, if I favourite or boost the post on my server, the "post pending" quote then displays immediately.

I've checked my Sidekiq queues and all sizes are "0".

I did have a problem before when the "more replies" function was implemented, and I had to separate the pull queue into a new service (because the pull queue kept building up overnight) , but that is stable now.

#MastoAdmin

Check_MK 2.5.0 is a nice update. Feels waaay more snappier and the "facelift" looks nice :)

#checkmk #mastoadmin #admin #selfhosting #foss #monitoring

bundle install

yarn install --frozen-lockfile
(accept corepack install prompt)

cp .env.production.sample .env.production
edit .env.production and populate SECRET_KEY_BASE and the ACTIVE_RECORD_* values (uncomment)
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
cd public
tar cJvf mastodon-assets-4.6.0.tar.bz2 packs assets

3/3

#FreeBSD #mastoadmin

pkg install: git bash icu pkgconf libyaml libidn postgresql17-client gmake node24 corepack vips

Set up rbenv and ruby-build and shell integration

Install suitable version (e.g. 3.4.9)

mkdir -p .local/bin
corepack enable --install-directory ~/.local/bin
export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH

Clone mastodon repo

rbenv local 3.4.9

2/3

#FreeBSD #mastoadmin

Ok I sorted out building (precompiling) the mastodon assets on a different (amd64) machine and copying them up to my actual host (since FreeBSD/arm64 does not seem easy to run the process on any more.

I've set up a jail on a machine at home to do it in; in case it's of any use to anyone else, here's the notes I scribbled myself as I was doing it

#FreeBSD #mastoadmin

1/2

My Mastodon server, cyberplace.social, has received a legal threat in an attempt to have a user's thread deleted. It is styled as a cease and desist.

I have published the email here:
https://github.com/GossiTheDog/Cyberplace/blob/main/LegalThreats/Cease%20and%20Desist%20Order%20-%20Felix%20Juhl

#mastoadmin

From the engine room: Built a new overview dashboard for our Mastodon instance burningboard.net with all the important stats:

- System overview
- Sidekiq statistics
- Database health
- S3 Bucket utilization
- Mastodon statistics

Starting to look really good and helpful :-)

#mastoadmin #mastodon #freebsd #grafana #monitoring @tux

Now that I've dug my hands deep into the Mastodon core, it looks like it's definitely possible to get the original home instance counts for federated posts, not just your own server's local tally.

For boosts and favourites, recent versions of Mastodon already fetch the origin's reported totals when retrieving a post and store them as "untrusted counts" (untrusted because the remote server self-reports them). So a remote post carries the home server's actual numbers.

Replies are trickier, as they only federate to subscribed servers, so the local count tends to lag. However, you can fetch the full reply tree from the origin on demand.

I'm basing our algorithmic home feed exactly on that: boosts and favourites from the origin counts, and comments from a backfilled reply tree.

Add opt-in ranked home timeline (experimental)
https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon/pull/4

The numbers in question have been requested for ages:

Boosts and favourites counts
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/22627

Show the number of reshares, likes, and comments directly in the timeline
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8280

#MastoAdmin #OpenSource #Mastodon #FYP

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A screenshot of my For you -page in Mastodon

Für alle Mastodon-Admins hier, die das "Tangerine Theme" für ihre Instanz(en) verwenden:

Es wird nicht weiter entwickelt und wird auch nicht für Mastodon 4.6 funktionieren [1]

Wir müssen uns leider nach einer Alternative umschauen...

[1] https://github.com/nileane/TangerineUI-for-Mastodon/releases/tag/v2.5.4-EOL

#MastoAdmin

Court orders Ohio restrictions on kids’ use of social media restored.

Known as the Social Media Parental Notification Act, the law requires companies to get parental permission for social media and gaming apps.

Ohio’s Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act, Ohio Revised Code 1349.09, https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1349.09

Part of the law states:
"The operator of an online web site, service, or product that targets children, or is reasonably anticipated to be accessed by children, shall do all of the following:

(1) Obtain verifiable consent for any contract with a child, including terms of service, to register, sign up, or otherwise create a unique username to access or utilize the online web site, service, or product, from the child's parent or legal guardian using any of the following methods:

(a) Requiring a parent or legal guardian to sign and return to the operator a form consenting to the contract by postal mail, facsimile, or electronic mail;

(b) Requiring a parent or legal guardian, in connection with a monetary transaction, to use a credit card, debit card, or other online payment system that provides notification of each discrete transaction to the primary account holder;

(c) Requiring a parent or legal guardian to call a toll-free telephone number implemented by the operator and staffed by trained personnel;

(d) Requiring a parent or legal guardian to connect to trained personnel by videoconference;

(e) Verifying a parent's or legal guardian's identity by checking a form of government-issued identification against databases of such information, and promptly deleting the parent's or legal guardian's identification from the operator's records after such verification is complete.

(2) Present to the child's parent or legal guardian a list of the features offered by an operator's online web site, service, or product related to censoring or moderating content, including any features that can be disabled for a particular profile.

(3) Provide to the child's parent or guardian a web site link at which the parent or legal guardian may access and review the list of features described in division (B)(2) of this section at another time.
#MastoAdmin #Ohio #Law #Privacy .

https://www.13abc.com/2026/06/19/court-orders-ohio-restrictions-kids-use-social-media-restored/?outputType=amp

Mastodon admins,

If you've updated your server to v4.6.0 it will now have the "Newsletters" feature. This lets people follow a Mastodon account's public posts via email, without creating an account.

However, this can use a lot of server resources if someone has many subscribers and they post often. It's therefore restricted to members who have the admin's permission to use it.

To activate it, go to Preferences > Administration > Email Newsletters, then follow the instructions.

#MastoAdmin

We've successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.7.0-alpha.1+mementomods-2026-06-19, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0. Two big milestones this round: Mastodon 4.6.0 officially shipped as stable on 17.6.2026, and our own Mastodon Bird UI theme reached its 4.0.0 stable release. We're already running the first nightly of the next cycle, v4.7.0-alpha.1 (today's version).

This update includes today's latest daily build with 56 new commits from upstream since our 13.6.2026 build (mementomods-2026-06-13).

What's new in Mastodon core, these are the changes the Mastodon Team have introduced in the latest nightly version we are running:

✨️ New features

- Mastodon 4.6.0 is officially out. After a long alpha, beta, and RC run, version 4.6 was released as stable on June 17, 2026, bringing Collections, redesigned profiles, email subscriptions, custom filter import and export, and everything else we've been previewing throughout the cycle. Naturally, we've been testing these features over the past few months already.

🔧 Fixes & improvements

- List navigation hotkeys now use Alt + PageUp and Alt + PageDown, the modifier was added so they no longer clash with normal page scrolling.
- Editing a media attachment twice without submitting in between now works.
- The audio player no longer errors out in Safari's Lockdown Mode.
- Hovercards now show up properly in the compose column.
- The report modal heading can now be translated correctly in every language.

♿ Accessibility

- Another round of web UI accessibility fixes landed as part of the final 4.6.0 polish.

📦 Dependency updates

- This round was mostly the 4.6.0 release finalisation, so only minor dependency bumps came with it.

🐦‍⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0 (stable)

Our theme reached its 4.0.0 stable release this round, the full modular rewrite built for Mastodon 4.6.0 and forward-compatible with 4.7.0-alpha.1. The big visible change for you is our brand new native favourite animation:

- Favourites now use a hand-rebuilt SVG burst animation instead of the old rotating sprite, recreated frame by frame in the classic Twitter style.
- There are two variants, a heart (shown by default) and a star. You can switch between them in Preferences, Appearance with the "use stars" toggle.
- The favourite counter and hover colour now match the icon, gold for the star and pink for the heart.
- The action-bar hover glow now sits centred on each icon (favourite, reply and boost) instead of drifting towards the counter number.
- Collection preview cards are now indented in feeds so they line up with the post content.
- Fixed the white, unreadable dropdown background on the settings pages (the native select popup).
- Fixed the boost and reply prepend line indentation that regressed after a Mastodon profile change (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39521).

Source code:
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!

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #BirdUI #MastodonBirdUI

Mastodon Bird UI v4.0.0 released for Mastodon v4.6.0 and v4.7.0-alpha.1.

Full changelog and release notes:
https://github.com/rollecode/mastodon-bird-ui/releases/tag/4.0.0

#MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

#MastoAdmins I've just upgraded to 4.6.0, and now there's only one file where you have to change the character limit..... 🥳

Maybe the age of being able to change it via the web GUI is nearly upon us...... 🤞

#MastoAdmin

RE: https://mementomori.social/@rolle/116744398165056485

I now have a working draft based on the Mastodon main branch (4.6.0-4.7.0-alpha.1): https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon/pull/10

If you're interested in micro-interactions, we now have them with custom SVGs. Please note I used some AI to trace the stripes I had before, which helped speed up the frame-by-frame work. Feel free to check it out @diondiondion @renchap

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

With recent news of vmst.io shutting down ( https://vmst.io/@vmstan/116757564108266599 ) I've decided to open up registrations on yttrx because I believe in an open internet ( https://peteftw.com/~pete/2026/04/the-open-internet.html )

I'm taking some actions to protect yttrx from abuse, including a new @bot account that will automatically act upon abuse reports against new users.

Hopefully this will help us to maintain an open fediverse while protecting small instances like ours from abuse.

#MastoAdmin

cc @tommertron

The second release candidate for #Mastodon 4.6 is now out!

It addresses several issues found in 4.6.0-rc.1, and is expected to become 4.6.0 later this week.

You can see all the changes on the release page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0-rc.2

If you are an admin, updating ahead of the full 4.6.0 release would be a great help to find and squash any last-minute bugs!

#MastoAdmin

Following last week's beta, the first release candidate for #Mastodon 4.6 is out! 🎉

You can find all of the changes on the release page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0-rc.1

We aim to publish the release next week. If you are an admin, now is a good time to upgrade to the release candidate and help us find any last minute bugs!

#MastoAdmin