What is the difference between "suspend" and "reject" in the context of account moderation via the web interface? #mastoAdmin

I'm thinking reject sends a rejection email while suspend is silent?

@matt_birchler fork of @TangerineUI is now installed as an optional theme on Listodon. Yay!

https://github.com/mattbirchler/Tangerine-Neue-for-Mastodon

#TangerineUI #MastoAdmin

Not to let the cat out of the bag prematurely, but...

If you were going to start posting about cool servers that aren't run by Mastodon GmbH on the @Mastodon account, which hashtag would you use?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin

Check this out. In the screenshot below, you can see me pinging my mastodon server over the wireguard vpn. But I'm using a domain name?

I installed bind9 on my vpn server, and it serves up wireguard IP addresses for custom domain names. Note the TLD, which is "wg". That is not a valid TLD and only exists on my wireguard network thanks to the magic of bind9.

#Wireguard #ServerAdmin #Bind9 #DNS #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #SelfHosted

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A screenshot of a computer terminal's output, described in the post. OCR text follows: bruce@fedora:~$ ping darkmoon.heerssen.wg PING darkmoon.heerssen.wg (fd76:ea04:1115::114) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from fd76:ea04:1115::114: +icmp_seq=1 tt1=63 time=63.8 ms 64 bytes from fd76:ea04:1115::114: +icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=56.8 ms Xg —--- darkmoon.heerssen.wg ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1002ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 56.848/60.300/63.752/3.452 ms

I'm using the extended web interface of the Mastodon instance I'm on. This allows for multiple columns with different content. I created one column to follow hashtags, by searching for a hashtag and then selecting "pin" in the column in which it shows the resulting posts. This column offers the option to include additional hashtags, and then I get a field where I can enter additional hashtags I'd like to show up there (see screenshot).

I can enter four additional hashtags by entering the name of the hashtag and pressing enter. If I enter a fifth one, when I press enter it just disappears. It doesn't stick.

So apparently this is limited to a maximum of five hashtags per hashtag column.

This feels like a bug to me, or a rather arbitrary limitation that doesn't make a lot of sense. Before I create a bug report, I was going to ask, is this normal? Is this deliberate? Is it a feature? Or is it indeed a bug?

For reference, the current Mastodon version on this instance is 4.5.13.

@stefano Any idea?

#mastodon #mastoadmin

Anyone knows anything about something called "Fediral"?

There were a couple handshake errors in the log tied to an IP that leads to fediral.com.

The site only says "launching soon" and there's nothing about it after doing a quick search.

I'm not sure if it was trying to access my instance (the logs don't mention the domain of the failed handshake), if it is a new scrapper or what.

#FediAdminBR #MastoAdmin

RE: https://mstdn.thms.uk/@michael/116837564627898724

Huh. Is this post showing its link preview for you?

On my instance it's missing and I haven't got a clue why.

Any help would be appreciated.

#mastoAdmin

so my mastodon is fucked up... if yall want to hep me figure shit out go to https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/39663#issue-4771775097

#mastodon #mastoadmin

updated to 4.5.12 #mastoadmin
my instance still is bugged with shit like a bunch of 500 errors and i still cant login, honestly idk how i even managed to login on the computer im typing from rn

If you're running a public Mastodon server, it is really important to set aside running costs for three months. Leave this money in a separate account if possible, and do not touch it for as long as your server is running.

This three month set-aside means you can guarantee your members three months warning if you ever decide to close the server, which is plenty of time to move accounts. This gives your server credibility both with existing members and potential new members.

#MastoAdmin

RE: https://elbmatsch.de/@nyansen/116823775071125237

Hier nochmal die Frage in die Runde. Weiß wer was? Würde sonst anfangen Accounts mit animierten Profilbilder zu blocken auf den scheiß in der TL habe ich kein Bock.

#mastoadmin #fedihelp #fedihelp_de

Nico Jensen » 🌐 2026-06-27
@nyansen@elbmatsch.de

Ich hab hier in der Timeline gerade ein Profilbild gehabt, welches sich bewegt hat. Seit wann ist der Müll denn möglich und ganz wichtig, wie kann man das deaktivieren? #mastoadmin #fedihelp

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

Ich hab hier in der Timeline gerade ein Profilbild gehabt, welches sich bewegt hat. Seit wann ist der Müll denn möglich und ganz wichtig, wie kann man das deaktivieren? #mastoadmin #fedihelp

I feel like maybe I'm holding it wrong but .. I expect that having ElasticSearch connected to Mastodon should let me search posts that I've seen, not just ones I've made, right? #MastoAdmin

I need some help.

I need to move my self-hosted instance from one machine to another. I don’t have the language to describe this to the internet to look for tutorials; I keep getting results for moving accounts between servers, for example.

Does anybody know of any good how-tos for this, or the right language to use in searches?
Thanks.

#help #MastoAdmin

Small weather update: The outside air in Europe is scorching hot right now ..

The burningboard.net Mastodon-Server is pleasantly cool with 43° C on the CPU package and 27° C on the NVMe drives ..

#mastoadmin #mastodon #server #catacenter

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

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