And we are back! Now running from a server in my kid's bedroom 🥳

The documentation at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/migrating/ is really really really good, and it all went off without a hitch, except for my CloudFlare tunnel setup, which I'll blog about shortly.

#mastoadmin

Sometime over the next few days I intend to migrate this instance to a server running in a closet in my home (currently hosted at Hetzner, but getting expensive, to I invested about half a year's worth of hosting cost into buying a physical device).

Wish me luck everyone 🤞

#MastoAdmin

#MastoAdmin question: is there a text file where the server rules are stored?

The February 2026 Trunk & Tidbits is posted. Our monthly engineering update, including progress on 4.6, our AI contribution policy, upcoming end-of-life for version 4.3, some posts about the Share button, and more.

#MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/trunk-tidbits-february-2026/

I started using my new #mastodon instance https://fraxoweb.social about 2 days ago.

- I'm alone on it
- I follow around 145 people

Yesterday, I was worrying about my media #storage because it was going crazy.

So I set a 1 day media retention, which is probably very aggressive.

But it worked, and feel a bit relived.

#admin #mastoadmin

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my instance media storage using 5 GB out of 20 GB

RE: https://mstdn.feddit.social/@admin/116200628150478181

https://stelpolva.moe 复活了，但是还没有完全活？

#sharkey #MastoAdmin #Misskey

toot.io relay service boosted

KIP/JΛYCHØU ⁂ » 🌐 2026-03-09
@admin@mstdn.feddit.social

OMG：https://stelpolva.moe

#sharkey #misskey #cve #Stelpolva

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🔒 处于紧急封锁状态 暂时的 我们发现 Stelpolva 运行所依赖的 Fediverse 实现 Sharkey/Misskey 存在安全漏洞。我们已将服务器下线，直至发布补丁程序。 预计恢复时间： 2026 年 3 月 8 日下午 5:00（温哥华时间） 带来不便敬请谅解。 在 Stelpolva 所使用的 Fediverse 实现 Sharkey/Misskey 中发现了一个安全漏洞。我们已暂时关闭服务器，待官方补丁发布后恢复。预计恢复时间：2026年3月8日 下午5:00（温哥华时间）。对此造成的不便，敬请谅解。 Mar 8 4:43 PM 更新：Sharkey官方表示星屑所在的Develop分支暂时无法追进这次的安全补丁，站长Linca因为手术的原因也暂时无法跟进，所以当前暂时无法预计星屑恢复的时间。目前从merge的内容上来看是关于嘟文可见度的问题。 - Winslow WinslowCloud Portal

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https://stelpolva.moe/

Our Mastodon instance "burningboard.net" now internally **ONLY** uses the Internet Protocol in Version 6. I did successfully migrate away from any RFC1918 addresses in any of the internal infrastructure connections.

Nginx -> Mastodon: IPv6
Mastodon -> PostgreSQL: IPv6
Mastodon -> Opensearch: IPv6
Mastodon -> Sidekiq: IPv6
Mastodon -> Loki: IPv6
Sidekiq -> PostgreSQL: IPv6
Prometheus -> Mastodon: IPv6

All using globally routed unique addresses and proper routing and packet filtering from "pf" (FreeBSD).

Outbound connections to legacy hosts (for example for Federation) uses NAT64 over Tayga.

Inbound the Nginx is the only component, that supports IPv4 on NAT on a best-effort approach. But I refuse to put a lot of work into this. We have 2026 and it's a dying, smelly protocol, that I don't even monitor anymore.

If someone looks at the Firewall rules.. Yes, we do run a (private) Factorio Server on our Mastodon system

#mastodon #mastoadmin #ipv6 #networking #freebsd @tux

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