Mastodon has almost every feature you could think of, but one thing I'd love to see in the future is the ability to attach a video and an image to the same post.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23605

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Yo folks! I've partnered with a legal team who has asked me for assistance. Please share if you can

The US has implemented policies targeting non-citizens working in content moderation through deportations and visa denials. The org I'm working with is pursuing litigation to invalidate these policies.

We are looking for US-based, non-citizen Mastodon mods to be a (named or unnamed) plaintiff in the fight to protect the first amendment. Please dm me if interested!

#mastoadmin #mastodon #uspol

We take data-safety of our Mastodon user data serious and have implemented multiple levels of backups with rigorous bi-yearly restore tests and documentation.

We do:
- Periodic local file-system snapshots (Every 15 minutes).

- Filesystem replication to backup-server in Germany (Hetzner, Falkenstein).

- Filesystem replication to second backup-server in Switzerland (Equinix ZH4, Zürich).

- GPG Encrypted application-layer backup (PostgreSQL, Mastodon configuration) to server from @tux in Germany.

Every single one of those backup-layers is monitored and tested (real recover) bi-yearly at least.

Our infrastructure runs on FreeBSD/ZFS with one backup-layer using "zfs send/recv" plus an additional application-layer backup that's using pg_dump+gpg. Just to be on the safe side.

All backup-jobs are monitored and the status (success/fail) is transperently visible on https://status.burningboard.net/

#mastodon #mastoadmin #freebsd #zfs #backups #digitalindipendence

Question for the #mastoadmin out there: My Elasticsearch recently crashed, and I didn't notice for several days until I was searching for one of my own posts and couldn't find it.

It appears that the /health endpoint returns ok even if elasticsearch is down. Is there a better endpoint that would not return OK if any part of the system is down?

Upgraded all services on https://stic.earth including #Mastodon to #NixOS 25.11. Everything went smoothly except #Netdata, which is now broken. Unfortunately, it is too complex and bloated now for me to understand and fix it. Thinking of switching to an alternative. Any suggestions?

#selfhosting #mastoadmin

Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.

I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:

- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.

I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:

https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md

I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!

❤️ 🦣

#FreeBSD #Mastodon #SelfHosting #mastoadmin #runbsd #OpenSource

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Screenshot showing the service status of several Mastodon services on FreeBSD

I have been re-architecting my self-hosted setup for public-facing websites, including my Mastodon server and my own personal website (linked in my Mastodon bio and verified). Watching the logs, I am getting a ton of traffic to my personal website from Mastodon clients, presumably due to the verified link in my bio. I'd never realized it was so much! Not a problem, just interesting (to me).

#selfhosting #mastoadmin

#mastoadmin

Check and evict username ptorrone on your instances, he's making lots of accounts to get into conflict with somebody.

Also, don't buy from Adafruit until they apologise.

I never could have guessed that so many would join. Thank you for staying here.

#MementomoriSocial #MastoAdmin

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21 new users, 377 active users, 50953 interactions, 12 reports opened, 12 reports resolved

Just a note for some of the other #MastoAdmin 's out there - On Universeodon.com we've seen a huge number of reports for an account due to it being a new account with no posts and a very large follower / following count.

As far as I can currently see and based on the info provided when they requested an account it's migrating from another instance. As far as I can see the account is in fact legitimate but we will keep an eye as I appreciate it is "Weird" having a 0 post account with thousands of followers / following relationships all of a sudden.

If anyone does see anything weird with any of the accounts on the instances please do report it as it is appreciated. I can't directly reply to these reports so didn't want folks to think it had been entirely ignored!

CC #Fediblock

A new @iftas report brings insights from fediverse moderators, administrators, and community managers: worsening mod-to-user ratio, spam, burnout, lack of tools.

"Moderators are the backbone of a safer social web – but most are unpaid, under-supported, and under constant strain. If we want a future for decentralised platforms that respects user agency, civil speech, and community autonomy, we need to support the infrastructure that keeps it safe."

https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/

#fediverse #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #SocialMedia #IFTAS