If you run your own Mastodon server and wondering how to manage storage, there's a useful video by @fedihost about it:

🌱 https://video.fedihost.co/w/caYDRrcGDTpy7yLxBKHqzu

They have also made lots of other useful tutorial videos about hosting your own Fediverse server:

🌱 https://video.fedihost.co/c/tutorials/videos

The videos cover Mastodon, PeerTube and GoToSocial 🙂

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

Someone just donated to goingdark.social for the first time.

I'm not gonna lie. running this instance takes work. Infrastructure doesn't maintain itself, storage costs money, and keeping things running smoothly isn't always easy.

This made my whole week. Thank you @lor, seriously. 🙌

https://ko-fi.com/home/coffeeshop?txid=465d2b80-08f0-4883-99d3-96e4e7ff825f&mode=public&img=ogsomeoneboughtme

#FediAdmin #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #mastoadmin

#mastoadmin

moessingen.social hat das Update auf Mastodon 4.5.5 bekommen. Bei Problemen bitte Bescheid geben!

#dogs #hunde #mastodogs #dogsofmastodon

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Jussi ist nah an der Kamera - sagt "Hallo"

For anyone who likes to watch Mastodon server patch status in near real-time, the #vmstio vmcrawl dashboard is now public (without needing authentication) for all your version tracking pleasures https://docs.vmst.io/vmcrawl

#mastoadmin

Nope, rejected! LOL. Wonder if this is AI or just a templated user request. #MastoAdmin

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I want to join to connect with a community of like-minded individuals, share ideas, and engage in thoughtful discussions. I am eager to learn from others, exchange perspectives, and contribute positively to a respectful and engaging online environment.

phpc.social is now running Mastodon 4.5.5, released about a half-hour ago. #mastoadmin

Publishing vs. redacted publishing vs. not publishing domain blocks.
Which one and why?
#mastoadmin #fediadmin #fediblock

Die Instanz https://watzmann.social läuft jetzt mit Softwareversion v4.5.5

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.5

#mastodon #mastoadmin #upgrade

Die Instanz https://bayerwald.social läuft jetzt mit Softwareversion v4.5.5

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.5

#mastodon #mastoadmin #upgrade

We just released Mastodon 4.5.5, 4.4.12, and 4.3.18.

These versions contain various bug fixes, including very important (1 high severity, 3 moderate severity) security fixes.

Mastodon 4.2 is now unsupported, so if you still run it, please update to a supported version as soon as you can.

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

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

#mastoadmin

Mastodon has almost every feature you could think of, but one thing I'd love to see in the future is the ability to attach a video and an image to the same post.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23605

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Yo folks! I've partnered with a legal team who has asked me for assistance. Please share if you can

The US has implemented policies targeting non-citizens working in content moderation through deportations and visa denials. The org I'm working with is pursuing litigation to invalidate these policies.

We are looking for US-based, non-citizen Mastodon mods to be a (named or unnamed) plaintiff in the fight to protect the first amendment. Please dm me if interested!

#mastoadmin #mastodon #uspol

We take data-safety of our Mastodon user data serious and have implemented multiple levels of backups with rigorous bi-yearly restore tests and documentation.

We do:
- Periodic local file-system snapshots (Every 15 minutes).

- Filesystem replication to backup-server in Germany (Hetzner, Falkenstein).

- Filesystem replication to second backup-server in Switzerland (Equinix ZH4, Zürich).

- GPG Encrypted application-layer backup (PostgreSQL, Mastodon configuration) to server from @tux in Germany.

Every single one of those backup-layers is monitored and tested (real recover) bi-yearly at least.

Our infrastructure runs on FreeBSD/ZFS with one backup-layer using "zfs send/recv" plus an additional application-layer backup that's using pg_dump+gpg. Just to be on the safe side.

All backup-jobs are monitored and the status (success/fail) is transperently visible on https://status.burningboard.net/

#mastodon #mastoadmin #freebsd #zfs #backups #digitalindipendence

Question for the #mastoadmin out there: My Elasticsearch recently crashed, and I didn't notice for several days until I was searching for one of my own posts and couldn't find it.

It appears that the /health endpoint returns ok even if elasticsearch is down. Is there a better endpoint that would not return OK if any part of the system is down?

Upgraded all services on https://stic.earth including #Mastodon to #NixOS 25.11. Everything went smoothly except #Netdata, which is now broken. Unfortunately, it is too complex and bloated now for me to understand and fix it. Thinking of switching to an alternative. Any suggestions?

#selfhosting #mastoadmin

Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.

I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:

- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.

I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:

https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md

I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!

❤️ 🦣

#FreeBSD #Mastodon #SelfHosting #mastoadmin #runbsd #OpenSource

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Screenshot showing the service status of several Mastodon services on FreeBSD

Just a note for some of the other #MastoAdmin 's out there - On Universeodon.com we've seen a huge number of reports for an account due to it being a new account with no posts and a very large follower / following count.

As far as I can currently see and based on the info provided when they requested an account it's migrating from another instance. As far as I can see the account is in fact legitimate but we will keep an eye as I appreciate it is "Weird" having a 0 post account with thousands of followers / following relationships all of a sudden.

If anyone does see anything weird with any of the accounts on the instances please do report it as it is appreciated. I can't directly reply to these reports so didn't want folks to think it had been entirely ignored!

CC #Fediblock