What the fresh heck is this... It bogged down my federated #ActivityPub #WordPress Mastodon app enabled website, #MastoAdmin. Now I am scouring my Mastodon instance's server logs for this twit.

The linked readme url https://blog.bmn.dev/fedi-research.txt says, "I currently work on an attempt to build a reasonable recommendation engine for mastodon.
For this I set up a bot to listen to the major instances' public feeds.
If it is causing you considerable annoyances, please contact me!
You can find out more about me, including my contact information here: https://blog.bmn.dev/about

Thank you for running a mastodon instance!"

There Github is https://github.com/fosefx

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I currently work on an attempt to build a reasonable recommendation engine for mastodon. For this I set up a bot to listen to the major instances' public feeds. If it is causing you considerable annoyances, please contact me! You can find out more about me, including my contact information here: https://blog.bmn.dev/about Thank you for running a mastodon instance!

I've been using Cachet for our status page for a long time now but unfortunately it seems to keep getting abandoned and I don't have the skill (or the time) to try to fix the issues in the upstream version that keep causing glitches for us.

Has anyone got any recommendations for good self hosted status page software like Cachet that doesn't depend on being populated by automated monitoring data / similar. I just want a way to post the status myself and show an overview of the various services.

#software #opensource #sysadmin #mastoadmin

The trouble with the last RT is that the disinformation campaign in Mastodon is already well underway.

They intend to massively increase their shill and bot account numbers to overwhelm instances.

#PortalKombat
#PutinTrolls
#SleeperAccounts
#MastoAdmin
#PutinTrolle

Putins Agenten geben sich mittlerweile richtig dolle Mühe, Mastodon-Accounts zu bekommen. Die letzte Begründung hätte mich überzeugt. Sie war in perfektem Deutsch und erwähnte sogar den Namen der Instanz. Aber eine WHOIS-Abfrage der IP-Adresse verwies auf Russland. Diesmal war die E-Mail-Adresse von Gmail. Ansonsten werden in letzter Zeit oft Wegwerf-Mailadressen benutzt, die aber keine Chance mehr haben, seit ich die Sperrliste von https://github.com/disposable/disposable importiert habe.

Da rollt eine Fake-News-Welle auf das Fediverse zu, sobald diese bisher stummen Accounts losschlagen. Die einzigen, die etwas dagegen tun, sind wohl die Leute vom @iftas: https://about.iftas.org/library/suspected-portal-kombat-accounts/

Update: Auch die @FediverseFoundation tut was dagegen: https://wien.rocks/@b2c/116919892226427398

#PortalKombat #PutinTrolle #SleeperAccounts #MastoAdmin

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?

I wanted to share a glimpse into the invisible battle we're fighting:

We're an open instance built to give genuine people a direct gateway to the Fediverse. Sign up, confirm your email, boom, done.

But bots, bad actors, and spammers try to get in, too. Last month's numbers:

Total signups: 1,025
Blocked by email domain: 675
Blocked after signup: 141
Genuine people (or undetected): 209

It surprised me that genuine people make up only about 20% of the total.

#MastoAdmin #tootcommunity

Sometimes newer is not better. At least not for the things that matter to you.

I benchmarked two OVH VPS in the same Zurich location. My current 2025 model with a 500 Mbit network against the newer 2027 model with 1 Gbit. Same AMD EPYC Genoa cores, same provider, nearly identical sysbench CPU scores.

Then the surprises started.
The older box pushes 6,612 MiB/s in memory tests, the newer one 932 MiB/s. That is 7x.
Random 4K reads: 1.32 million IOPS against 832k.
And the old model is even about 1 EUR cheaper.

For a Mastodon instance, databases, and Docker workloads, memory and disk beat extra bandwidth every time. So the shiny new VPS gets demoted to reverse proxy and backup duty, and this instance stays exactly where it is.

Benchmark before you migrate.

#SelfHosting #Mastodon #Fediverse #VPS #OVH #Benchmarks #Homelab #Blog #MastoAdmin

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Screenshot of the OVH control panel showing two active VPS in the EU-WEST-LZ-ZRH location: vps-817e781a.vps.ovh.net labeled vps-2027-model2.LZ and zrh-1.dol.ch labeled vps-2025-model1.LZ. Both marked Active, the model names underlined in red

Can anyone recommend some relatively affordable managed #Mastodon hosting?

We've been with the absolutely fantastic Masto.host since starting Writing.Exchange in 2017, but it's become prohibitively expensive -- especially for a community of only ~250 active users, as our hosting costs are about to increase another $50 to $589/month this month.

#MastoAdmin #WritingExchange

My essentially single-user Mastodon server is becoming more expensive to run on @mastohost without doing some cleanup. My problem is that I don’t actually know how/what to clean up.

Early on I used relays to improve federation; I think there’s a TON of data in the db from that which could just be purged, but I don’t want to accidentally lose any user data. A couple of years ago we did run `tootctl statuses remove` but I might have still had a relay enabled more recently.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

I think we should have a #MastoAdmin pin. I think I deserved one. What do you think @Gargron?

#Mastodon #pin #fediverse

It’s been 5 full days without me SSH-ing somewhere. I think it is a new record since I started my #homelab. I couldn't take it anymore and upgraded my #GlitchySocial Mastodon instance to 4.6.3 today. While on vacation. While away from servers.

#selfhost #SelfHosted #selfhosting #vacation #Mastodon #mastoadmin