I've disabled the #Cloudflare proxy for #MastodonAppUK (Thankfully their API still seems to work and I've been able to bodge it into working) so traffic should now be routing directly to our load balancer infrastructure which I hope will mean we should now be able to be online. This may mean the site will be slower for folks geographically further from the UK but it's either this or the site is intermittently down.

I'll get the change rolled out on #Universeodon and the Universeodon relay now.

#mastoadmin

Here's the 6 month Mastodon Sidekiq track, you'll see the highest amount of failures on the far right today in red - that was the Cloudflare outage.

Hopefully it encourages more #mastoadmin to consider if Cloudflare is a good choice.

The photos and other media on our instance are malfunctioning due to Cloudflare outage. Sorry about this, but there's nothing we can do on our end. Media is something we can't easily self-host cost-efficiently, we're talking terabytes of data.

#mementomoriSocial #Cloudflare #MastoAdmin

@GossiTheDog, SideKiq may get worse, since multiple Mastodon instances rely on it.

New: Digital Ocean, Multiple Services Disruption

"Our Engineering team is actively investigating an issue impacting multiple DigitalOcean services caused by an upstream provider incident. This disruption affects a subset of Gen AI tools, the App Platform, Load Balancer, and Spaces. Users may experience degraded performance or intermittent failures within these services." #DigitalOcean #Outage #MastoAdmin

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/lgt5xs2843rx

I’m trying to upgrade my Mastodon server from 4.4.3 to 4.4.8 since yesterday waiting for yarn to run its update. Currently the yarn process is running at 200% CPU, 0% memory, and been going on for 10+ hours. Any ideas? #FreeBSD #MastoAdmin

We've successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.1+mementomods-2025-11-15, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0rc1. This update includes today’s latest daily build, so everything should be as up to date as possible. The version brings some minor UI improvements.

You can check out our fork source code here: https://github.com/mementomori-social

As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here! Feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts.

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

When I got the idea to start my own Mastodon server in October 2022, many people asked, "What will happen to your server when you die? Will it just disappear? Aren't you afraid you'll lose all your data forever?"

Well, yes. No shit, Sherlock. But it'll be mine while I’m alive.

Websites come and go over the decades. Nothing is permanent. So why should a Mastodon server be any different?

Epicurus once said: Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

While I embrace the mindset of focusing on the present, I do everything I can to keep this server running for as long as I live and breathe - and maybe even beyond.

This is why I named my server mementomori.social. It's a reminder. More at https://help.mementomori.social

#MementomoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Stoic #Stoicism

Just a quick shoutout to anyone that uses hashtags to please use Camel Case when you use them with multiple words.

'Camel case is a writing style where words are joined together without spaces, with the first letter of each new word capitalised'

This would help screen readers used by blind or partially sighted people to pronounce these words properly.

One commonly used example is mastoadmin, I'm no expert, but I imagine a screen reader would pronounce this as mas-toad-min.

Typing it as MastoAdmin should cause the screen reader to pronounce it properly.

#MastoAdmin #Hashtag

PostgreSQL 18 is available on Ubuntu 24 LTS now, and it offers to upgrade your existing DB from 17 to 18 during the apt upgrade. I was a little hesitant, but after backing up the DB I went for it, and... Mastodon is working just fine.

If you want to run the upgrade manually:

pg_upgradecluster 17 main -v 18

and then after verifying health:

pg_dropcluster 17 main

Just putting this info out there for other #mastoadmin.

We just released Mastodon 4.5.1

This version fixes some bugs found in 4.5.0.

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

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.1

#mastoadmin

#MastoAdmin, what are we thinking on 4.5.0? Is it safe after 4 days without a patch release, or am I just playing with fire? 😂

RE: https://mas.to/@darth_hideout/115520523920929816

Inquiring minds want to know. #mastoadmin

Hallo #Fediverse #FoederationsAlarm #MastoAdmin

Die Instanz https://deppenkessel.de/about hat sich zerlegt. Von dem Unfall sind mehrere hochrangige Persönlichkeiten betroffen.

Bitte mithelfen; die betroffenen Tröter:innen haben zwar inzwischen Unterschlupf gefunden, aber ihre Historie ist weg. Der aktuelle Status ist, dass die euch noch folgen und ihr ihnen. Sonst ist gerade auf den ersten Blick alles weg…

Aber alles ist noch im Cache! 🎉

Schaut deswegen bitte in eure Profile, ob da wer mit <username>@​deppenkessel.de bei ist und pingt die mal an. Die Instanz steht wieder und braucht viel Futter.

Wenn ich die Freigabe erhalte, erwähne ich als Antwort auf diesen Tröt das Kriseninterventionsteam.

#boost

Sind Sie Administrator einer Mastodon-Instanz?

⚠️ Aktualisieren Sie jetzt auf Version 4.5! ⚠️

Ältere Versionen von Mastodon enthalten bekannte Sicherheitslücken. Außerdem können veraltete Instanzen bestimmte Arten von Inhalten (z. B. Zitate), die in der neuesten Version eingeführt wurden, möglicherweise nicht richtig anzeigen oder übermitteln.

Um die Sicherheit, Kompatibilität und Benutzerfreundlichkeit für Ihre Nutzer zu gewährleisten, sollten Sie Ihre Mastodon-Instanz so bald wie möglich auf Version 4.5 aktualisieren.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Fedi #FediAdmin #Administrator #Admin #MastoAdmin

thanks to @paige for the very flattering and in depth video largely about the #FediAlgo project!

https://video.fedihost.co/w/a1522517-704e-44a3-aa0e-5c4e7d49e7d1

#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #GoToSocial #hashtag #hashtags #javascript #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #MastodonApi #mastohelp #mastojs #node #nodejs #opensource #socialmedia #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #typescript #webdev

The third release candidate for Mastodon 4.5 is ready!

It addresses UX concerns regarding quotes and post privacy, now warning when you quote someone in a followers-only post, and preventing quotes in Private Mentions.

It also includes a few other bugfixes.

We are planning to release the final 4.5.0 version tomorrow, so please test this release candidate if you can!

Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0-rc.3

#mastoadmin