interesting judgement regarding GDPR, and I agree. applies to the #fediverse i believe, and may protect fediverse admins

# Facts

"A data subject published a post concerning their ADHD diagnosis on a publicly accessible online forum under a pseudonym. A person (the controller) who was a follower of the data subject and had previously been in personal contact with them, knew that the pseudonym belonged to the data subject.

The controller subsequently sent a WhatsApp message to a mutual acquaintance stating that the data subject had received an ADHD diagnosis and included a link to the forum post.

The data subject lodged a complaint with the Austrian DPA (DSB), arguing that their health data had been disclosed to a third party. They alleged that the controller by forwarding the pseudonymous forum profile, had unequivocally linked it to their real identity."

# Holding

"The [Data Protection Authority (in Austria)] held that the data subject was identifiable to the controller as regards the publication of the forum post under her profile name. Since the post also included information concerning her gender, age and diagnosis, it concluded that it constituted her personal data under Article 4(1) GDPR.

The DPA further held that the prohibition on processing special categories of personal data under Article 9(1) GDPR did not apply because the data subject had manifestly made their health data public within the meaning of Article 9(2)(e) GDPR. It reasoned that actively disclosing the ADHD diagnosis in a publicly accessible forum constituted an unambiguous and conscious act by which the data subject made the information available to the public.

The DPA therefore dismissed the complaint as unfounded."

https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=DSB_(Austria)_-_2025-0.968.031

#mastoadmin #lawfedi #gdpr

For a small two node active-passive proxmox cluster, where two VMs should failover when one node goes / stays offline (after a power outage or so), which storage would you recommend?
I'm using consumer SSDs, so ZFS filesystem replication is not really an option because the TBW is very limited (250GB ~150TBW).

VMs in question are Mailserver / Web Loadbalancer for about 30 accounts.

#selfhosting #fedihelp #sysadmin #admin #mastoadmin #homelab #diyhosting

v4.6.0

For a user-focused highlight of these changes, see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/ For changes of particular interest to application developers, see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4-6-for-devs/ For a more...

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

#glitchsoc #glitch #mastodon #mastoadmin

I am thinking to make a matrix ​​ account to communicate with other admins but I don't know if other admins use matrix for moderation.

#mastoadmin #sharkeyadmins #fediverse #community

If I wanted to run a PostgreSQL query on my masto server which shows my personal home timeline as the result, does anyone have any pointers to guides or even such a query itself?

Please boost for reach.

#MastoAdmin #SelfHosting #MastoAdmins #PostgreSQL

Da es die letzten Jahre mehrfach vorkam, das Mastodon Server offline gingen, ohne die User zu informieren, habe ich mir das näher angeschaut. Soweit ich das erkenne, waren die Server ungepflegt, die Server-Versionen sehr veraltet.
Bei den deutschsprachigen Mastodon-Servern mit mehr als 50 Usern finde ich noch zwei Server mit veralteten Versionen: 4.1.6 und 4.4.2. Die Registrierung ist bei beiden geschlossen.
Wie soll man damit umgehen? Die Admins anschreiben? Die User informieren?

#Mastoadmin

Earlier it was Tencent. Now it's Baidu (202.46.48.0/20) getting an iptables block from phpc.social because I like having decentralized social media reachable more than I like them scraping it for Qwen or whatever.

#mastoadmin

We've closed signups on indieweb.social for the weekend after a huge increase in attempted spam sign ups.

We aren't the only instance going through this. Please show your support to the amazing moderators across the Fediverse! 💙 ☁️

#FediAdmin #SpamWave #Moderation #Admin #Indieweb #FediMod #MastoAdmin

📬 Trunk & Tidbits for June 2026 is now live!

Our monthly blog post series is there to showcase what we worked on last month.

In this edition, we are also discussing our official Helm Chart for Mastodon, for those of you who deploy Mastodon on Kubernetes. We released a brand new version of the chart in a new place, deprecating the existing one.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/07/trunk-tidbits-june-2026/

#mastodev #mastoadmin #TrunkAndTidbits

I've been using Cachet for our status page for a long time now but unfortunately it seems to keep getting abandoned and I don't have the skill (or the time) to try to fix the issues in the upstream version that keep causing glitches for us.

Has anyone got any recommendations for good self hosted status page software like Cachet that doesn't depend on being populated by automated monitoring data / similar. I just want a way to post the status myself and show an overview of the various services.

#software #opensource #sysadmin #mastoadmin