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

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Rolle Laukkarinen » 🌐 2026-06-13
@rolle@mementomori.social

Experimenting with new native SVGs to bring into Mastodon core. Instead of the CSS hacks we use in the Mastodon Bird UI, these SVGs provide a more natural solution.

The CSS sprite-based ones are fine and serve their purpose as a theme layered over Mastodon, but I miss a more native approach for the large numbers we have in the posts in our Mastodon fork. The Mastodon team can later decide whether to use these animations, as they will be built against the main branch.

What can I say, I like appealing micro-integrations.

#MastoAdmin #FrontEnd #WebDev #Mastodon #Animation #Design #BirdUI #MastodonBirdUI #SVG

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Micro-interactions, heart and star in action.

für alle #mastoadmin die es interessiert und die auch probleme mit den emojis haben - ich habe den fix der in diesem issue gelinkt wird angewendet und jetzt kann ich wieder mit : während des schreibens emojis suchen 😎 👍️
hoffe die nehmen das in ein offizielles release 4.6.1
#mastodon 4.6.0
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/39492

We're seeing a lot of account takeovers of old, unused accounts. If your account has elevated privileges (eg admin or moderator access) we strongly advise you enable multi-factor authentication.

Please boost for visibility.

#FediAdmin #FediMods #MastoAdmin

I need to migrate off Hetzner S3 storage which unfortunately is now into their 10th day of "no news regarding our degraded service".

So... I need a new provider with European alternatives.

Anyone got suggestions for that?

#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

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Michael Stanclift » 🌐 2026-06-16
@vmstan@vmst.io

The vmst.io instance will cease operations at the end of June 30, 2026. Please use this time to migrate your user account and connections. All data will be deleted after this date.

Mastodon v4.6.0 requires Ruby v3.3, but my version of Ubuntu (24.04) only has 3.2.3. Anyone have a good suggestion? Otherwise I guess I'll just wait a while.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #SelfHosted #ServerAdmin

@vmstan Good luck in you future endeavors but, dang, ...June 30 is such a short time for people, esp ones who put their trust in you because they were promised 3 months notice.

#Mastodon
#Mastoadmin #vmstan

https://github.com/vmstio/vmstio/blob/main/about.md

https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

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Michael Stanclift @vmstan@vmst.io The vmst.io instance will cease operations at the end of June 30, 2026. Please use this time to migrate your user account and connections. All data will be deleted after this date.

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Commitment to give users at least 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down Sometimes services shut down, it is the cycle of life. But users must have the confidence that their account will not disappear overnight, so that they have time to export their data and find another server.

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This repository was archived by the owner on Jun 16, 2026. It is now read-only. Mastodon for geeks and nerds of every type and stripe Why choose vmst.io as your Mastodon server? We run the latest available Mastodon code and regularly contribute fixes back to the Mastodon project. We uphold the guidelines of the Mastodon Server Covenant. We're built to be highly performant and highly available, and committed to taking ownership of issues when things go south. We publish our real-time system status, and strive for better than 99.99% observed availability.

Just upgraded this server to Mastodon 4.6.0.

Thanks to @Mastodon and all contributors for what appears to be a very polished release.

#mastoadmin

I see Mastodon 4.6.0 was released just a few hours ago, and I'm already getting questions from Mastodon admins. Just a heads-up for Mastodon Bird UI users and admins who have the UI installed: the main branch (stable for 4.5.0) is NOT compatible with Mastodon 4.6.0. The nightly version has been tested with 4.6.0-rc.1, but not yet confirmed for 4.6.0 stable. It should work though, since rc.1, which it was tested with, is only 35 commits behind.

If you are updating your instance now and want Mastodon Bird UI to work, you should use the nightly branch and preferably the official install script we provide for forks. A LOT of the UI has changed, including the new auto color scheme and contrast modes outside of the theme, as well as the major modularization work we did this spring while preparing for 4.6.0.

Custom CSS users should use the CSS files under dist/.

Let me know if you run into any issues with the nightly branch rc-version and I'll fix them soon. Final stable testing is coming at the latest this upcoming weekend.

https://github.com/rollecode/mastodon-bird-ui/tree/nightly

#MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #MastoAdmin #CSS #UI

Updating to #Mastodon 4.6.0 I get an error running step 3 of the update process (precompiling the assets):

https://pastebin.com/JzLGFSNC

Am I missing something?

#MastoAdmin

It appears that the fail happens after applying the Mastodon Bird UI. So I might want to ping @rolle

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Na... wer von Euch hat erst die DB Migration beim #Mastodon update vergessen? #MastoAdmin

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116765910384325070

To coincide with Mastodon's 4.6.0 release, I've updated the files and quick-start guide for deploying Mastodon version of rootless Podman Quadlets for anyone interested in self-hosting.

Mastodon Rootless Podman Quadlets

#rootless #quadlets #podman #mastodon #sysadmin #mastoadmin

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Mastodon » 🌐 2026-06-17
@Mastodon@mastodon.social

#Mastodon 4.6 is here! It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally ready. In this release, we're introducing Collections—a way to share curated collections of profiles to help old and new users discover more of the #Fediverse. We're also updating the look of profiles, alongside many quality of life and accessibility improvements. Read more here:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

Mastodon 4.6.0 installed ✅

Only thing not working so far, is the autocompletion for emojis. When typing `:check` it used to show a list of emojis with "check" in the name. This seems to be broken now :(

Release notes confirm, that this is something this part of the software was touched.

#mastodon #mastoadmin #selfhosting #updateparty

Our Mastodon instance "burningboard.net" is now running on the newly released FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE

Everything looking fine. No unpleasant surprises. Upgrade process went completely smooth!

Our Stack now:

OS: FreeBSD 15.1-RELASE with Bastille
Mastodon: 4.6.0-rc.2
DB: PostgreSQL 18.4 / Valkey 9.0.3
Search: Opensearch 3.5.0

#mastodon #mastoadmin #fediverse #selfhosting #freebsd @tux @Mathias @AlienJay

v4.6.0-rc.2

WarningThis is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on mastodon.social and some other servers. If you update to this release, you will not be able to safely downgrade to the existing...

https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0-rc.2

#glitchsoc #glitch #mastodon #mastoadmin

Are you running a server on the Fediverse, either Mastodon or some other type?

Would you like it to be listed on the human-curated server directory at https://fedi.garden/fedi-gardens-full-server-list ?

Is it compatible with all seven points at https://fedi.garden/about-this-site ?

If the answer to all these is yes, please message my other account at:

➡️ @FediGarden

Let me know a little bit about your server in your message, or send a link to your About page 🙂

#Fediverse #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116754951213266902

Woohoo!

Just updated my instance to Mastodon v4.6.0-rc.2 and I'm really happy to see my name among the 52 contributors!

Already running smoothly.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #FOSS #MastoAdmin

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Mastodon Engineering » 🌐 2026-06-15
@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social

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

burningboard.net now runs on Mastodon v4.6.0 (Release Candidate)

What's new for you:

- Collections: Curate up to 25 accounts and share them with others

- Redesigned profiles: edit yours directly, no settings panel needed

- Email subscriptions: turn your public posts into a mailing list (opt-in)

- Alt text for avatars & headers

- Posts can now have media AND a poll

- New color scheme + contrast options

#mastoadmin #mastodon #community #fediverse @MastodonEngineering @tux @Mathias @AlienJay

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

I have finally completed the migration of my Mastodon instance to docker. Turns out it's really quite straighforward 💪

Thanks @daniel for giving me the push I needed to finally get onto this!

https://blog.thms.uk/2026/06/moving-mastodon-to-docker?utm_source=mastodon

#mastoAdmin

v4.6.0-rc.1

WarningThis is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on mastodon.social and some other servers. If you update to this release, you will not be able to safely downgrade to the existing...

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0-rc.1

#mastodon #mastoadmin

I'm curious if more people have experienced the Sidekiq issues with the most recent version of the AWS SDK S3?

I'm running media storage on Hetzner S3 buckets. And apparently around june 4 they started having issues with their storage. That seems to coincide with my Sidekiq threads running crazy eventually crashing and locking up.

I noticed that they also eventually seem to overwhelm my postgresql server which today actually made it crash entirely and bork out.

So I think this then is a rather ... convoluted error path which has it's roots in Hetzner S3 storage in Helsinki being degraded. That screws over the AWS SDK S3 package creating some sort of situation where exceptions are not handled appropriately, leaving worker threads in sidekiq in a state of distress never allowing themselves to be joined and terminated.

So yeah... it sucks if you're running Mastodon on pure iron, using Hetzner S3 storage in Helsinki Finland. And a tiny bit busy instance... then you'll find yourself having to terminate sidekiq processes about every two days.

Happy, not happy. Great to get these issues now, when I'm quite literally a day away from my first proper vacation in 6 years.

#MastoAdmin

Experimenting with new native SVGs to bring into Mastodon core. Instead of the CSS hacks we use in the Mastodon Bird UI, these SVGs provide a more natural solution.

The CSS sprite-based ones are fine and serve their purpose as a theme layered over Mastodon, but I miss a more native approach for the large numbers we have in the posts in our Mastodon fork. The Mastodon team can later decide whether to use these animations, as they will be built against the main branch.

What can I say, I like appealing micro-integrations.

#MastoAdmin #FrontEnd #WebDev #Mastodon #Animation #Design #BirdUI #MastodonBirdUI #SVG

Hello #MstdnParty -

If you noticed any downtime this morning, this was because we received a massive amount of traffic from a very large number of IPs, all behind the AS132203 network "Tencent Building, Kejizhongyi Avenue"

Bots on this network appeared to be scraping every possible hashtag under the /tags/ path, which consumed all the available database connections between pgBouncer and Postgres.

Earlier this morning we mitigated these requests, and the server returned to normal.

#MastoAdmin

Beta war gestern wir sind jetzt RC also Really Cool
Aktualisierung auf v4.6.0-rc.1 war erfolgreich.

Bitte weitertooten

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0-rc.1

#MastoAdmin #AfterSpace

We've successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-rc.1+mementomods-2026-06-13, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-beta.1.rc nightly updates.

Mastodon hit Release Candidate this round. The 4.6 release is right around the corner.

This update includes today's latest daily build with 85 new commits from upstream since our last build mementomods-2026-06-07.

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

- Import Custom Filters, the import side of last release's export, so you can move your filter rules between accounts and instances
- Bot notifications can be filtered with a new dedicated policy, separate from regular filtered-notifications handling
- Newsletters can now be viewed individually in the admin UI
- Polls and media attachments can be combined in the same post (the old restriction is lifted)
- Media attachment descriptions raised to a 10000 character limit
- Media attachments now carry duration in their ActivityPub representation, so audio and video duration travels with the post over federation
- Collections continue to polish
- Several internal refactors (typing-statuses representation, sundry test coverage on background workers) that should make future patches smoother
- Changelog now points to the right profile-API documentation

Fixes & improvements

- Account hovercard sometimes not triggering, fixed
- "Unlisted collections" profile section was visible to other users, now properly hidden
- Editing a post failed when the post had both a poll and attachments, the validation check is now consistent
- "Remove me from collection" confirmation dialog copy was misleading, cleaned up
- Missing string for custom filter import added
- Missing heading styles in settings area restored
- Loading or errored emoji in a detailed status display name no longer causes a line break
- Sensitive media card display fixed
- Unable to unmark media as sensitive when "always mark media as sensitive" is enabled, fixed
- Sidekiq Elasticsearch connection cleanup made robust
- Avatar and profile header description fields are now serialized over ActivityPub (so alt text actually federates)
- Intermittent failure in `RankedTrend` locales pluck (order-dependent), fixed
- Broken column header layout after the heading refactor, fixed
- Uncontained text overflow in column header, fixed
- Tiny checkboxes and radio buttons in Safari, fixed
- Font size of `Callout` component actions in Safari, fixed
- Alignment of icon and text in `Callout` component, tightened
- Missing boolean check in Admin Reports API, fixed
- Inconsistent `keyboard_shortcuts.translate` string, normalized
- Crash on standalone Wrapstodon and embedded status pages (#39400), fixed
- Poll options ordering below uploads in the compose form, fixed

Accessibility

- Navigation focus management overhauled, focus stays where it should after sidebar interactions
- Alerts ("toasts") are now announced by assistive tech
- Column extra buttons moved out of the h1 column heading
- Patched over the worst a11y issues from the "simple" ruby gems

🐦‍⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-beta.1.rc (nightly)

Side-panel and profile polish, plus some small UX wins:

- Compact navigation items (font-size 17px, gap 7px) on screen heights below 1080px so more nav links fit on a laptop
- Navigation menu scrollbar is now minimal (Firefox thin, WebKit 4px) instead of the dominant OS default
- Trends section top margin removed for a tighter side panel
- Trends drop to 2 items on screen heights below 830px (4 items fit above that)
- Dropdown menus are capped to the viewport height and become scrollable on short or zoomed screens
- Avatar follow badge sits above the display name (z-index) so the first row of the status stays clickable (only for forks that have experimental For you enabled)
- Account timeline filters render above the profile header

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

Enak juga #elasticsearch dipasang buat #mastodon. Jadi bisa search postingan-postingan yang berbahasa Indonesia dari seantero #fediverse. Cukup masukin "language:id" di kotak pencarian, bisa juga dikombinasikan dengan kriteria lain.

#mastoadmin

I haven't see quadlets version of Mastodon in the wild, so I made one. Took me a day or two to deploy, test and write the guide from multiple resources I could find. For anyone who's interested in trying and testing it out. Chances are I might have missed a few things.

I'm tried, going to bed.

https://codeberg.org/ShadowX/Mastodon-Podman-Quadlets

#rootless #quadlets #podman #mastodon #sysadmin #mastoadmin

There's an annoying bug on the latest nightly build of #Mastodon v4.6.0-nightly.2026-06-12 (included: #glitch fork)

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/39409

#mastoadmin #fediadmin

I've been seeing a *huge* uptick of registration requests lately, a bunch of which look like spam. Anyone else seeing this on their servers?

#MastoAdmin

v4.6.0-rc.1

WarningThis is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on mastodon.social and some other servers. If you update to this release, you will not be able to safely downgrade to the existing...

https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0-rc.1

#glitchsoc #glitch #mastodon #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

We just shipped some new features of our own to mementomori.social! 🎉

New:
- "For you" feed (experimental). Open your home column settings and switch on "Ranked order" to try an algorithmic feed: posts ranked by engagement and by who you interact with, fresh content on every refresh, and you'll rarely see the same post twice. Flip on "Include posts from people you don't follow" to discover new accounts beyond your follows. See someone interesting there? Tap the + on their avatar to follow them.
- PageUp and PageDown scroll the page normally again (thanks @anotherdream for the feedback on this one!)
- The navigation is a bit tidier: Collections and Followed hashtags now live under "More".

The For you feed is fully opt-in. Your home feed stays exactly as it was unless you turn it on. Feedback very welcome!

Fork source and PR drafts available: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon/tree/mementomods-2026-06-07

Full feature list: https://help.mementomori.social/mementomori.social/instance-features

#MementoMoriSocial #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #OpenSource

Another feature I decided to steal from the other place. Looks like my hyperactivity set me on fire.

Sorry, @timitii, for putting you on the spot in my dev environment.

#MementoMoriSocial #MastoAdmin

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Another Mastodon feature, plus icon pops up a follow modal

Just one more month before https://strangeminds.social is shut down permanently

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

Updated my test instance to Mastodon v4.5.11 - perhaps one of the fastest updates so far! Looks like the beta version of 4.6 is out, too.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0-beta.1

#MastoAdmin

Our MCAT tool, the Mastodon Canada Administration Tool, enables all of our administrators to have deep, audited interactions with our infrastructure.

It was built in-house and is a critical component to keep our instance current.

#mstdnca #MastoAdmin #SysAdmin