I have just rolled out a configuration change across the entire FediMeteo network.

I've enabled remote purge propagation. Since weather forecasts have a short shelf life, there is no need for old reports to take up space on your servers.

From now on, when FediMeteo deletes local posts (usually after 3 days), we will also send a deletion signal to the rest of the Fediverse. This helps keep your timelines clean and your storage usage low.

#FediMeteo #Fediverse #MastoAdmin #Weather #FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements #FediMeteoUpdates

Ok we got federated boosts and likes a while ago on here, and even replies if I remember correctly (I think it’s broken on my instances)

But what about follows and followers on someone else’s account ? Am I missing something or is it in the pipeline somewhere ? Just curious

#mastodon #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #federated

dammit. i upgraded to masto 4.5.x and couldn't understand why it still wasn't fetching all replies from remote servers (or even offering the option to)

as it turns out, this must be *manually* enabled in .env.production:
FETCH_REPLIES_ENABLED=true

#mastoAdmin

Dear #mastoadmin , watch out the newcomers on your instance because looks like there is an ongoing wave of accounts created for propaganda and psyops, and you don't want to pay storage and bandwidth for this bullshit.

"Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services"

https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/

We just released Mastodon 4.5.3, 4.4.10 and 4.3.16 and 4.2.28.

These versions contain various bug fixes, including a fix for a minor security issue.

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

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

#mastoadmin

If you decide to go to main branch of #Mastodon, what is a good schedule for updating the recent changes to main? Weekly, daily, etc. #MastoAdmin

phpc.social is now running on Mastodon 4.5.3, released...less than ten minutes ago :). Got lucky with being at a stopping point when the update notification came across.

#MastoAdmin

HELLIONS has been running the mastodon fork known as glitch-soc for a week now...

• rationale? markdown support
• other perks like configurable limits I was hand-jamming before
  • max toot size
  • max bio size
  • max # pinned toots
  • max # poll options
  • max size of poll option
• zero downsides detected
• switched after the v4.5.2 upgrade
• no migration required
• could easily switch back
• infosec.exchange runs it too

#MastoAdmin #glitchsoc #fediverse #fedi

https://hellions.cloud/@dannotdaniel/115637191155550237

Now at:

OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #140: Sat Dec  6 14:07:21 MST 2025

#OpenBSD #MastoAdmin

Now at:

```
OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #140: Sat Dec 6 14:07:21 MST 2025
```

#OpenBSD #MastoAdmin

2/ My #Mastodon UI wishlist item include "Modes." Regular, Iages and Video mode. Speaking of images and video, I wished search and the media tab wasn't just "media" with both included but broken down to "images" and "video" abilities #mastoAdmin

@andreklein Thank you! I've heard that quite a lot, though there are other great themes out there too, like @nileane's wonderful Tangerine UI. I originally built this in early 2023 as a quick experiment (you can read the post here: https://mementomori.social/@rolle/109984108360395822), and at first, I didn't plan for it to become a full-fledged theme. I just wanted my Mastodon instance to look more polished, minimal, and reminiscent of how Twitter looked in 2019.

I didn't have time to contribute to Mastodon's core since it was filled with hardcoded colors, so I spent a week creating my own theme. It kind of escalated from there, and before I knew it, I had built a full theme framework that I was developing on daily basis.

Mastodon Bird UI is now quite widely used - most notably it's one of the themes of the @Vivaldi browser's Mastodon instance: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-social-latest-update-built-in-translate-and-themes/

You can see a list of instances using Mastodon Bird UI here: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui?tab=readme-ov-file#list-of-instances-that-use-mastodon-bird-ui

The upcoming Mastodon UI system refactor will make it even easier to port themes, and I hope it brings great things to the community!

#MastoAdmin #MastodonBirdUI

Mastodon Bird UI support for Mastodon v4.6.0 with CSS properties is coming soon. The theme will also be modularized using SCSS partials to match Mastodon's new style infrastructure.

The build process will include npm scripts and Parcel, making the theme ultra-portable for any Mastodon instance, whether added through the Custom CSS textarea or directly by a Mastodon admin.

I'll also create a simple bash script for Mastodon admins to enable the theme as a selectable option more easily than the current fork-and-cut method.

This is no easy feat, but definitely worth it.

GitHub: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui

Progress in the nightly branch.

#MastodonBirdUI #CSS #OpenSource #MastoAdmin #Theming #BirdUI #Mastodon #BuildInPublic

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Screenshot of Mastodon v4.6.0-alpha.1 + Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0rc

Over 5,100 unique #Tencent IPs triggered the ban within roughly 2-3 hours of this scenario going live. These guys don't mess around...

#MastoAdmin #CrowdSec

Ich bin gespannt, ob nach der Umstellung auf alles weiterhin so reibungslos läuft wie unter 🫣

https://blog.hofstede.it/migrating-burningboardnet-mastodon-instance-to-a-multi-jail-freebsd-setup/index.html

#burningboard #mastodon #mastoadmin #linux #bsd

Another interesting adventure from the life of a #MastoAdmin: "Where do all these requests come from?"

These spikes come and go on a fairly steady rhythm (each ~60 minutes). I found this to be interesting, so I investigated which URLs are being requested the most during these spikes.

Turns out: It's the emojis. I don't mind as they're being returned early by Varnish, but why so much? 2.5 million times per 24 hours seems like _a lot_.

Two red lines mark the Mastodon 4.5 upgrade.

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A graph showing the requests from NGINX, with a time scale of 24 hours.

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A graph showing the requests from NGINX, with a time scale of 7 days.

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Aggregated logs from NGINX, parsing the URL, and showing the top ten most requested URLs.

Here's a view from seven days earlier. The emojis don't even rank in the top ten most requested URLs.

#MastoAdmin

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A view from the logging, but seven days earlier. It's not showing the emojis at all.

Update on the Tencent crawler situation:

Identified the fingerprint (Chrome/126 on Windows NT 6.1, always from AS132203/132591/45090) and deployed a #CrowdSec scenario to auto-ban them for 90 days.

Already blocked 100+ IPs within the first hour. They rotate constantly, but the fingerprint stays the same.

The attached chart shows traffic from the last 24 hours. All yellow spikes are recurring Tencent crawls.

#Tencent #MastoAdmin

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The attached chart shows traffic from the last 24 hours. All yellow spikes are recurring Tencent crawls.

i fucking hate mastodon quote posts

why did they have to fuck it up and make it suck instead of just following what every other fedi software already does

#MastoAdmin #mastodon #quote #QuotePosts

With mastodon's new Wrapstodon thing rolling out on their own instance, I went hunting on how to generate these reports.

Thanks to @lutoma who provided me with instructions, I've written a short blog post on this here:

https://blog.thms.uk/2024/12/how-to-run-wrapstodon?utm_source=mastodon

You must have the latest nightly version on your instance.

The UI of this is serious weird and out of sync with the rest of Mastodon though....

#Wrapstodon #mastoadmin

What is the official / correct way to change max chars for posts etc on my server in 2025?
Mastodon v4.5.2

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

really, really impressed with posty: a mastodon archive -> html static site generator

it ingests your mastodon archive (post history) as a zip, and barfs out an entire static html site with indices and tags. all servable with any standard web server.

this is super helpful because when i shut down the dialup.cafe instance, there was no easy way to get access to my old posts and images.

it can either be run online here:
https://posty.1sland.social

or instructions here for running it locally:
https://codeberg.org/oliphant/posty

#mastoAdmin #mastodon

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a user profile page for @vga256@dialup.cafe. it shows the user's profile pic (a fox) and a background banner (a beyond hypercard screenshot, drawn by robin miller)