The Universeodon relay is now back up and running and migrated to our new environment.

I'll keep an eye for a little longer just to make sure everything continues to work as expected but it should be fine as far as I can see.

#MastoAdmin

Just as a quick note for the #MastoAdmin community - The Universeodon relay is about to be migrated to new infrastructure.

I'm expecting there to be a short blip where the relay will be down while I move the config and DB from the relay to the new server and switch our load balancer to use the new server.

This will then be the final item on our legacy server cluster that needs migrating (Which is frankly long overdue!)

@evan Wait, what? If I follow hashtags on one instance, I only see stuff from that instance? Something is rotten in the state of Denm... Eh, Mastodon. #mastodon #mastoadmin #mastolivre #masto

This instance will be shut down on 2026-04-12 for legal reasons.

Why? I (@alxhu) came across the Mastodon Trademark Guidelines about one month ago, which prophibit the usage of the Mastodon wordmark in the domain name without written permission by the Mastodon GmbH.

When I created this instance, I didn't knew this. I immediatly asked for permission but didn't recieve an answer (even after messaging multiple times again), so I assume the answer is no

#instanceshutdown #mastoadmin #mastodon

@mastodonlgbt @alxhu Just so you know: When they released the trademark policy they made statements saying that they would permit instances that use the mastodon name in good faith and predated the policy.

I'm not aware of a change of that position since.

My own instance use mstdn in the url (IIRC also covered by the trademark) and based on this statement I am keeping my instance up.

May @andypiper can advise?

#mastoadmin

RE: https://mastodon.lgbt/@mastodonlgbt/116318629726348167

I will shut down mastodon.lgbt in about two weeks.

This instance (greifswald.lgbt) is NOT affected.

#instanceshutdown #mastoadmin #mastodon

mastodon.lgbt-Administration » 🌐 2026-03-30 / 2026-03-30
@mastodonlgbt@mastodon.lgbt

This instance will be shut down on 2026-04-12 for legal reasons.

Why? I (@alxhu) came across the Mastodon Trademark Guidelines about one month ago, which prophibit the usage of the Mastodon wordmark in the domain name without written permission by the Mastodon GmbH.

When I created this instance, I didn't knew this. I immediatly asked for permission but didn't recieve an answer (even after messaging multiple times again), so I assume the answer is no

#instanceshutdown #mastoadmin #mastodon

Hi Mastodon-Admins,

I'm the admin of an instance running on v4.3.21 and would like to upgrade to v4.5.0. In the 4.5.0 release notes I can see the update steps for v4.4.8.

Is there any chance I can update directly from v4.3.21 to v4.4.8 or do I have to sequentially update through all the minor releases v4.4.0-v4.4.8?

#mastoadmins #mastoadmin #sysadmins

@paul @maddad @mastodonmigration @chad what could I do as #mastoadmin to prevent known mastodon AI commercial scrapers to harvest data posted by members of our community?

@gubi @paul @maddad @mastodonmigration @chad Preventing known AI scrapers is easy as #mastoadmin: Just block the User Agent (in this case Zeitgeist/1.0 (social feed summarizer; https://github.com/seldo/zeitgeist)).

(see https://github.com/seldo/zeitgeist/blob/57e5bd5f012be31c90df1602de37d8b4e7aa143b/lib/mastodon.ts#L1 for source)

For unknown ones it's much harder ...

It's funny how some people say they joined because our instance is Finnish. It's true that I'm Finnish and our servers are located in Finland, but we don't promote ourselves as a Finnish instance, nor are we otherwise tied to Finland.

English is my second and quite dominant language, and half of my family tree is Australian. In short, all cultures and languages are welcome here.

Languages currently used on mementomori.social:

1. Finnish
2. English
3. French
4. Swedish
5. German
6. Korean
7. Dutch
8. Portuguese

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

#FediBlock @atlas_autonomous - yet ANOTHER slop machine hooked up to a Fedi account. why do people keep doing this. what makes them think this is okay

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

I've sent some replies to those I can still see posting here on #MedMastodon but as a reminder.

Med-Mastodon will be closing down at the end of this month. Those that are active here, please see our e-mail from March 1st or the announcement in the web interface for more information and some suggestions on alternative servers to move to.

From April 1st 2026 the site will not be available and any content not migrated before then will be permanently lost.

#Migration #MastoAdmin #ServerClosure

My test mastodon instance has been upgraded to v4.5.8, easy peasy.

Stop Services
ProxMox Snapshot
Fetch 4.5.8
Build
Start Services

Now that I say it was easy I have cursed myself tho.

Also I hate that I can't use checkbox emojis now because it looks like AI wrote the post. Batman it is.

#Homelab #MastoAdmin

We just released Mastodon 4.5.8, 4.4.15, and 4.3.21.

These versions contain various bug fixes, including fixes for medium severity security issues.

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

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

#mastoadmin