The landing page of our Mastodon instance burningboard.net is now bilingual, offering not only German but also English for our international visitors.

It features introductions to Mastodon and the Fediverse, helpful information for newcomers and people coming from the "birdsite" as well as information about our philosophy, rules and more.

See it here:
https://meta.burningboard.net

#mastodon #fediverse #mastoadmin #website #international #burningboard

The landing page for our Mastodon instance burningboard.net has been translated to English as well. Does someone have a look and give me feedback about it? Would be highly appreciated!

URL: https://meta.burningboard.net/beta/

#mastodon #mastoadmin #translation #website

Hallo #mastoadmin
Jemand eine Idee wie ich die Fehlermeldung beim Update von Mastodon behebe?

npm error code ERESOLVE
npm error ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree
npm error
npm error While resolving: @mastodon/mastodon@undefined
npm error Found: react@18.3.1
npm error node_modules/react
npm error react@"^18.2.0" from the root project
npm error
npm error Could not resolve dependency:
npm error peer react@"^0.14.0 || ^15.0.0-0 || ^16.0.0 || ^17.0.0" from emoji-mart@3.0.1-j
npm error node_modules/emoji-mart
npm error emoji-mart@"npm:emoji-mart-lazyload@latest" from the root project
npm error
npm error Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
npm error this command with --force or --legacy-peer-deps
npm error to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.

#update #upgrade #help

Apparently some jackass just tried to register @social and @noreply on my server.

#mastoadmin

I'm only asking this because I'm curious to know, but is there a Mastodon v5.0.0 remotely in the works right now?

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

Been fiddling with #Sidekiq today to try and improve the performance of my Mastodon instance.

Beginning to suspect #Postgresql is the weak link, but not sure what else I can do with that (I know about PGTune)

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

Thinking about moving my instance to docker. In your experience, are there any downsides besides the migration itself?

#mastodon #mastoadmin #docker #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab

#MastoAdmins - if you have problems with the "Fetch All Replies" function in v4.4 and 4.5 of Mastodon, check your "pull queue" in Sidekiq.

The function was working for me for a while, but then I started getting a circular "loading" icon at the bottoms of threads, and the remote replies would never appear.

This may have been because I added some more relays recently.

After chatting with some other admins in the Matrix support channel, I checked my Sidekiq queues, and there were 1.2m entries 😱

I found this article https://thomas-leister.de/en/scaling-up-mastodon/, which mentions splitting up the queue pollers into different services and I saw the same symptoms, htop was showing sidekiq's 25 threads, but only 1 of them was actually busy, and using 100% CPU, where other CPUs were mostly idle.

My machine is pretty beefy - A VM on SSDs, 4 vCPUs (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz) and 48gb RAM, so the bottleneck is the lack of proper automatic multithreading in Sidekiq?

In the end I followed Thomas' instructions, and created 2 extra system services that just serviced the Mastodon "pull" queue (1 was not enough).

9 days later, the queue is now at 0, and reading posts in Mastodon now seems to pull in the new replies again 🥳

I have now disabled one of the 1 pull queue services, in the hope that one for the pull queue is enough.

😅

#MastoAdmin

Alt...

Screenshot of my Sidekiq queue, showing 999,879 items in the pull queue!

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Graph showing the drop in pull queue items over the last week. Processing seems to be linear.

yeah no i love it when the S3 server crashes at night

*prioritizes "create automatic fail recovery" in her todo*

#mastoadmin #fediadmin #garage

So, I built a new instance and you can find me at @mookie@weredreaming.com.

That doesn't mean that https://lifeiswoohoo.net is going away, it's staying for a while -- but lifeiswoohoo.net will be the instance that goes away if I ever want to change domains.

We're Dreaming (https://weredreaming.com) is an attempt at having an instance with permanence. It is where I plan to write and post without having posts disappear when I move instances, because it's obvious I'll always want to be building and destroying instances.

I'm still figuring out what I'll be posting here and what I'll be posting at We're Dreaming. But the initial thought is that more personal posts will go on We're Dreaming along with my movie posts.

I have already followed those of you that I interact with on a regular basis, if you wouldn't mind following back that would be awesome.

I am keeping the We're Dreaming account as one where I approve followers.

#fediverse #fediadmin #snac #snac2 #mastodon #mastoadmin #home

Zu verschenken:

Ich habe hier noch eine ganz passable Domain rumfliegen, die sicherlich eine großartige Fediverse Instanz abgeben könnte: tacheles.social

Ich würde zwar gerne selber, aber eine offene Instanz würde sicherlich schnell mein Budget sprengen.

Wer ehrliches Interesse hat, mit der Domain hier etwas zu machen, möge mich anschreiben.

#domain #instance #newinstance #mastoadmin #zuverschenken

If you follow anyone from the Mastodon instance `oldfriends.live they seem to be having some major problems at the moment.

They're reaching out asking for help from anyone who feels like they're enough of a #PostgresQL expert to help them troubleshoot what sounds like major database issues.

https://oldfriends.live

#OldFriends #MastoAdmin #DBA

A #SysAdmin / #MastoAdmin Question for folks

Has anyone used mikrotik hardware in anger / in production?

I've had enough now of my Unifi gear causing problems, this is the second gateway I've purchased which exhibits these random lock-ups / crashes and I'm very much over it so am looking at alternatives and mikrotik continues to be one that looks sensible.

Just curious if anyone has much experience using it hands on?