Hetzner, which many instances rely on, just announced a major across the board price hike. A 30% increase isn’t minor.

For larger companies it’s a budget line. For small Mastodon instances, it’s the line between sustainable and underwater.

When servers jump from €49.99 to €64.99 and storage rises too, admins feel it first. Many already subsidize costs.

Some will downsize. Some may shut down.

Decentralization still runs on invoices.

Support your instances.

#Mastoadmin #Hetzner

Just a quick note for #MastoAdmin 's using the #Universeodon Relay.

The relay is one of the last things to get moved now onto our new infrastructure, I'm about to start making the configuration changes and DNS updates which will mean our new load balancer infrastructure will start to serve requests for the relay as well as finally supporting IPv6 properly.

Later today I will then need to migrate the relay DB and config onto a new server so there will be a short outage later on to the relay while I do this.

Anyone have news on horrorhub.club? It’s been down for days now.

#mastodon #mastoadmin #fediverse

Wir veröffentlichen unsere Spam-Listen als Open Source 🛡️

Analyse von 400+ Spam-Accounts auf troet.cafe & muenchen.social:
✅ 192 Spam-E-Mail-Domains
✅ 65 IP-Ranges

Frei nutzbar (CC0) für alle Admins.

We published our spam lists as open source — 192 email domains + 65 IP ranges from 400+ spam accounts. Free to use (CC0).

👉 https://github.com/martinmuc/mastodon-spam-lists

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Spam #OpenSource

Something we would really like to have at https://archaeo.social, but haven't been able to find the time for, is a bot that welcomes new users, gives them tips on how to populate their feed, encourages them to make an #introduction post, then automatically boosts it.

Otherwise unfortunately we see that, on a small instance like ours, most new users never get past that initial empty feed.

If anybody wants to take this on, it'd be much appreciated!

#HelpWanted #MastoAdmin #MetaArchaeoSocial

Mastodon Admin self hosters who are installed on standard Debian!

Have you moved to Debian 13/Trixie?

#SelfHost #Debian #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

@mookie Little worried. Still not up. I have a few good relationships at #horrorhub #MastoAdmin https://social.horrorhub.club/

We hope to supplement and improve existing moderation efforts rather than replace them entirely. It is our hope that by prompting a shift in the responsibility of curating content from instances to their users. Instance operators and their moderation won't feel compelled to act as an arbiter of philosophy by selecting which content may and may not be seen beyond the scope of generally agreed upon illegal or egregious content.

Instead, offering more user agency by providing the tooling, framework and guidance through which they can curtail undesirable content without sorting to suspending entire instances at the expense of the users on there that have done nothing wrong.

Would you be interested in promoting or boosting such efforts?

#FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Fediblock, #Sociology, #Blocklist.

RE: https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/116173390079474741

Suena a una facilitación del #fediblock pero con los administradores.

Me agrada, se ve más eficiente, en especial si algún servidor no toma las medidas correspondientes, otros pueden estar al tanto.

#MastoAdmin

Fedi admins with open sign-ups,

There are scammers active at the moment, and all of the scammer accounts have signed up on servers with instant signups.

To put the scammers off signing up on your server, you might want to set your sign-ups to "approval required".

To do this on Mastodon go to Preferences > Administration > Server Settings > Registrations tab > Who can sign up > Approval required, then click save changes.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

Rash of "Mastodon verification" spam off mastodon.world (looks like they have gone back to screening users, unlimiting them!) #MastoAdmin

#fediverse #mastodon #mastoadmin

Question for the #mastoadmin out there:

Anyone know what's up with argyle.social? There appear to be (at least?) two instances running under that domain:

alpha.argyle.social and beta.argyle.social

Both of these are spamming my feed with pointless posts, and neither have any public info on their sites.

RE: https://bluetoot.hardill.me.uk/@ben/116158450779496866

Has anybody tested this? I assume some of the #Mastodon hosting services must have looked at this sort of thing to pool media between instances.

@mastohost ?

#mastoadmin

Look out for Mastodon.Social impersonation scams coming from accounts dubbed Ro-bot Helper #HashTagGames players !

#MastoAdmin

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Ro-bot Helper @jvroj@mastodon.social @paul Dear user Mastodon! The Mastodon team is excited to inform you that your content is capturing the audience's attention. We would like to offer you an opportunity for collaboration, where you can earn rewards for your posts. To begin this collaboration with the Mastodon team, we strongly recommend that you complete the verification process by using the link below: redacted Thank you for choosing our platform. Best regards, the Mastodon team.

This might be a dumb question, but in order to back up a Mastodon instance, if one were simply to rsync the /home/mastodon/ folder, would it then work to simply restore that folder in the case of a failure?

#MastoAdmin #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

I will say if you admin a instance of mastodon or anything on the fediverse. Actually USE the thing yourself !

#mastoadmin

neondystopia.world is an instance that values freedom of expression and equity above all else, something that I thought a devout christian like yourself would have valued. After all, Jesus too was prosecuted for his expression. We have fair and equitable guidelines for our users and moderators, ensuring that any reports filed are compared against our own rules and that of the instance the report originated from. We even investigate reports on staff independently to ensure they are peer reviewed and free from bias. We go above and beyond what most do to ensure that we maintain a comfortable and inclusive environment by carefully balancing free expression with fairness and equity. Choosing instead to deal with people on a case-by-case basis rather than blanket banning entire instances.

I don't take slander of our instance lightly, and wanted to leave you with a scripture in hope that you may reflect on your decision.

Matthew 7:1-5 “*Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.*"

Tags: #FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #PSA, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Fediblock, #Blocklist.

@bishop@mastodon.myocci.social @xaetacore@neondystopia.world @alex@neondystopia.world @saatja@neondystopia.world @polski696@neondystopia.world

RE: https://neondystopia.world/notes/aj0av1o22mm1016x

TIL: If your home feed for some reason gets stuck (e.g., doesn’t load past a certain point), running `tootctl feeds build` can help solving it. I ran it inside my sidekiq pod, but your hosting _will_ vary from mine. #mastoadmin

Welcome to MastodonBD!

While our primary focus is Bangladesh - its people, culture, technology, and public discourse - the instance is open to everyone, regardless of location. We encourage respectful dialogue, diverse perspectives, and meaningful connections across borders.

If you believe in open social networks and constructive conversation, you are welcome here.

Let’s build this space thoughtfully, together.

#fediverse #mastodon #mastoadmin #bangladesh #dhaka #asia