#mastoadmin — Public Fediverse posts

If you want to help cover the costs of running oslo.town and contributing to an alternative to big tech, then register on our Patreon.

https://patreon.com/oslotown?utm_source=mastodon

#Patreon #OsloTown #Oslo #Allheimen #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #SupportYourAdmin

I posted a March/April update on my bloggy-wog about how much it costs to run oslo.town and listing all the new members that joined during that period.

🔗 https://coxy.co/oslo-town-march-april-2026/

If you want to support the Mastodon instance, please join the Patreon and you can donate small, medium, or medium+ amounts of money each month to the cause of open and free social media.

💶 https://www.patreon.com/oslotown

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Patreon #NewBlogPost #oslotown #Oslo #Allheimen #SocialMedia

I posted a March/April update on my bloggy-wog about how much it costs to run oslo.town and listing all the new members that joined during that period.

🔗 https://coxy.co/oslo-town-march-april-2026/

If you want to support the Mastodon instance, please join the Patreon and you can donate small, medium, or medium+ amounts of money each month to the cause of open and free social media.

💶 https://www.patreon.com/oslotown

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Patreon #NewBlogPost #oslotown #Oslo #Allheimen #SocialMedia

I posted a March/April update on my bloggy-wog about how much it costs to run oslo.town and listing all the new members that joined during that period.

🔗 https://coxy.co/oslo-town-march-april-2026/

If you want to support the Mastodon instance, please join the Patreon and you can donate small, medium, or medium+ amounts of money each month to the cause of open and free social media.

💶 https://www.patreon.com/oslotown

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Patreon #NewBlogPost #oslotown #Oslo #Allheimen #SocialMedia

I posted a March/April update on my bloggy-wog about how much it costs to run oslo.town and listing all the new members that joined during that period.

🔗 https://coxy.co/oslo-town-march-april-2026/

If you want to support the Mastodon instance, please join the Patreon and you can donate small, medium, or medium+ amounts of money each month to the cause of open and free social media.

💶 https://www.patreon.com/oslotown

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Patreon #NewBlogPost #oslotown #Oslo #Allheimen #SocialMedia

I posted a March/April update on my bloggy-wog about how much it costs to run oslo.town and listing all the new members that joined during that period.

🔗 https://coxy.co/oslo-town-march-april-2026/

If you want to support the Mastodon instance, please join the Patreon and you can donate small, medium, or medium+ amounts of money each month to the cause of open and free social media.

💶 https://www.patreon.com/oslotown

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Patreon #NewBlogPost #oslotown #Oslo #Allheimen #SocialMedia

Well #wasabi S3 just announced an increase in storage costs from 6,99/TB to 7,99/TB. Time to relocate soon #mastoadmin (Spoiler, so its all SaaS free, hopefully)

Die Speicherauslastung unserer Instanz geht stetig zurück, seitdem wir dank der Hilfe der Community das Problem identifizieren konnten: Crawler durchqueren über unsere öffentlichen Feeds jeden Thread samt Antworten, den sie in die Finger kriegen, und rufen hierfür alle Medieninhalte über den Media Proxy unserer Instanz ab. Diese Medien werden dann bei uns (für einen von uns konfigurierten Zeitraum) lokal gecached und führten zum Volllaufen der Festplatte. Seitdem wir den öffentlichen Feed für anonyme Zugriffe deaktiviert sowie die maximalen anonymen Zugriffe pro 10 Minuten auf dem Media Proxy stark limitiert haben, ist unsere Speicherauslastung auf fast die Hälfte zurückgegangen (und ist weiterhin am Sinken).

#Fedimin #Mastoadmin

TIL: Mastofe requires proper CORS headers on the assets domain for audio files specifically
#MastoAdmin #Fediadmin

Mastodon Incident Report / Root cause analysis:

Earlier today, users experienced timeouts with Search, Hashtags, and Autocomplete.

Root Cause: Our setup separates the Mastodon frontend VPS (Hetzner) from backend services (for example Elasticsearch) via an OPNSense firewall. Suricata (our IPS) triggered a false-positive on internal traffic and aggressively blocked the VPS IP, severing the connection to the search database.

Resolution: We identified the false-positive, added the frontend IP to the whitelist, and traffic immediately normalized. Everything is back to green!

#mastodon #mastoadmin #burningboard #elasticsearch #firewall #opnsense #suricata #oopsie

Mastodon Incident Report / Root cause analysis:

Earlier today, users experienced timeouts with Search, Hashtags, and Autocomplete.

Root Cause: Our setup separates the Mastodon frontend VPS (Hetzner) from backend services (for example Elasticsearch) via an OPNSense firewall. Suricata (our IPS) triggered a false-positive on internal traffic and aggressively blocked the VPS IP, severing the connection to the search database.

Resolution: We identified the false-positive, added the frontend IP to the whitelist, and traffic immediately normalized. Everything is back to green!

#mastodon #mastoadmin #burningboard #elasticsearch #firewall #opnsense #suricata #oopsie

Mastodon Incident Report / Root cause analysis:

Earlier today, users experienced timeouts with Search, Hashtags, and Autocomplete.

Root Cause: Our setup separates the Mastodon frontend VPS (Hetzner) from backend services (for example Elasticsearch) via an OPNSense firewall. Suricata (our IPS) triggered a false-positive on internal traffic and aggressively blocked the VPS IP, severing the connection to the search database.

Resolution: We identified the false-positive, added the frontend IP to the whitelist, and traffic immediately normalized. Everything is back to green!

#mastodon #mastoadmin #burningboard #elasticsearch #firewall #opnsense #suricata #oopsie

Mastodon Incident Report / Root cause analysis:

Earlier today, users experienced timeouts with Search, Hashtags, and Autocomplete.

Root Cause: Our setup separates the Mastodon frontend VPS (Hetzner) from backend services (for example Elasticsearch) via an OPNSense firewall. Suricata (our IPS) triggered a false-positive on internal traffic and aggressively blocked the VPS IP, severing the connection to the search database.

Resolution: We identified the false-positive, added the frontend IP to the whitelist, and traffic immediately normalized. Everything is back to green!

#mastodon #mastoadmin #burningboard #elasticsearch #firewall #opnsense #suricata #oopsie

Mastodon Incident Report / Root cause analysis:

Earlier today, users experienced timeouts with Search, Hashtags, and Autocomplete.

Root Cause: Our setup separates the Mastodon frontend VPS (Hetzner) from backend services (for example Elasticsearch) via an OPNSense firewall. Suricata (our IPS) triggered a false-positive on internal traffic and aggressively blocked the VPS IP, severing the connection to the search database.

Resolution: We identified the false-positive, added the frontend IP to the whitelist, and traffic immediately normalized. Everything is back to green!

#mastodon #mastoadmin #burningboard #elasticsearch #firewall #opnsense #suricata #oopsie

Admin teams, note that agentmail.to email domains are "inboxes for 'AI' agents" and ban/suspend any registration requests accordingly.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #AI #slop #LLM #FediBlock

Die Fehler in #Sidekiq nehmen langsam zu, wir verlieren den Kontakt zu den anderen .de-Instanzen.

#Mastoadmin #Fnordon #DNSSEC #DEFAIL

🔴#2MR live
17.30 – 18.00 next up: #democracy-strenghening #SocialMedia Technologies for Tomorrow

Livestream:
👉 https://2mr.social/en/livestream-english/

On stage:
· @sabrinkmann from @54gradsoftware
· @honeywinter from @fediway
· Björn Adamski, #3QVideo
· host: @melaniebartos #science communicator at @uniinnsbruck

Program:
👉 https://2mr.social/en/program-english/

#SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Tech #CivicTech #fedidev

Realized just after midnight that my #ivory client was refusing connection to my local server and I tracked it to my letsencrypt ssl cert having just expired. I didn’t have port 80 open to the world, so renewal was failing when I ran it. Fixed that for now, by my question is whether that would otherwise auto-renew on a standard build of the system or if I should be scheduling to trigger it manually? Think this was my first 90 mark since bringing my instance online.

#mastoadmin

Realized just after midnight that my #ivory client was refusing connection to my local server and I tracked it to my letsencrypt ssl cert having just expired. I didn’t have port 80 open to the world, so renewal was failing when I ran it. Fixed that for now, by my question is whether that would otherwise auto-renew on a standard build of the system or if I should be scheduling to trigger it manually? Think this was my first 90 mark since bringing my instance online.

#mastoadmin

Das FediCamp geht in die nächste Runde!

https://friendica.rollenspiel.monster/display/b2e8d1f0-5669-f64d-bac1-356357241793

Das FediCamp geht in die nächste Runde!

https://friendica.rollenspiel.monster/display/b2e8d1f0-5669-f64d-bac1-356357241793

Das FediCamp geht in die nächste Runde!

https://friendica.rollenspiel.monster/display/b2e8d1f0-5669-f64d-bac1-356357241793

Liebe #Mastoadmin Community,

seid ihr irgendwie zur Phishing-, Spam-, ... und Trollabwehr vernetzt?

Praktisch hat fast jede Instanz eigene Regeln.

Stelle es mir es sehr schwierig vor gemeinsam gegen blöde Posts und Accounts vorzugehen.

Und einen relativ großen Aufwand für jede einzelne Instanz.

Gibt es etwas um den Moderationsaufwand zu reduzieren?

Und gibt es eine Möglichkeit Posts und Accounts "flächendeckend" im ganzen Fediverse zu melden?

#Mastodon #Moderation

@downey You're taking my suggestion way too far and adding to it things that I did not say or imply. I didn't say or imply that you needed my permission to do anything. If you imagine I even implied that, you are totally mistaken.

Absent a setting a poster could set when they make a post or in their profile that said their posts are set to auto purge, giving others notice that their interactions will result in phantom, orphaned replies and interactions, I said it would be nice if users who interact with posts that get deleted have a UI panel listing their now orphan replies (implying that they could delete those phantom replies that now have no context.)

I can have my social media interaction wish list and consent 101 would seem to include if you are going to have a conversation with someone, the other person has a right to know how that conversation may be used.

My wish list said "I think one option to be fair would be to create a post setting that marks a post with an icon or something warning people that it is subject to auto purging, giving people advance notice who then can decide to interact or not"
#mastoadmin #FediAdmin

I'm muting this conversation since it appears to be escalated to no fault of my own

@paul Well, in that case, please be on notice that I reserve the right to delete any of my content when I want to, and not requiring your permission.

Consent 101.

#mastoAdmin #FediAdmin

I see why people may want to auto purge posts on Mastodon but that is unfair to people who reply or quote post, which leaves orphan replies and interactions with no context. It also leaves database entries and media that may come with interactions on servers.

I think one option to be fair would be to create a post setting that marks a post with an icon or something warning people that it is subject to auto purging, giving people advance notice who then can decide to interact or not

Post not made with the auto purge option can still be deleted but must be deleted manually.

It would be great if manually deleted posts had a user panel that users could see and then manage their orphaned interactions.

#MastoAdmin #Moderation #Mastodon #MastoDev

Updated our Mastodon server burningboard.net to latest FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p7 . Everything running smoothly 🙂 :freebsd:

#mastoadmin #mastodon #freebsd #bastillebsd #sysadmin

Per si és d'interès, tenim un nou bot que publica la salut dels servidors federats amb mastodont.cat.

@federats

Cada dia a les 20:00 hores publicarà l'evolució de l'anàlisi diari de tots els servidors federats amb l'objectiu d'esborrar de la base de dades els que no hagin respòs en un període de 14 dies. Es verifiquen una vegada al dia.

#manteniment #MastoAdmin #fedivers #fediverse

Interested in setting up the Anubis web application firewall to help block bot registrations against your Mastodon instance, but want to leave the rest of the site open? Here's how we used nginx to proxy just the user registrations through Anubis in an attempt at combating spam registrations.

Will it work? Don't know, time will tell.

If you notice any issues with it or have additional tricks that you like to implement to help secure your Mastodon instance, let us know!

https://bitsnbytes.dev/posts/2026-04/mastodon-with-anubis.html

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #Security #Anubis #WAF

:fediverse: Should Fediverse servers have a policy against the posting of LLM generated AI slop?

:boost_love:

#AI #slop #LLM #LLMs #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #ArtificialIntelligence #poll

How is this thing done? I tried Markdown code format here on Mastodon, using code HTML tags, neither work.

Is my suspicion using own instance with allowed code use correct? ActivityPub supports this, but Mastodon don't?

PS: This shows up as <code> tags on Mastodon.

#mastodon #mastoadmin #mastolivre #html #css #formatting #markdown #masto

Achtung #Fnordon, jetzt rumpelt's gleich kurz.

Ich schalte den Object Storage von #MinIO auf #SeaweedFS um. Dadurch könnten vorübergehend Medien (Bilder/Videos) fehlen, die kommen aber alle wieder.

#Mastoadmin

Achtung #Fnordon, jetzt rumpelt's gleich kurz.

Ich schalte den Object Storage von #MinIO auf #SeaweedFS um. Dadurch könnten vorübergehend Medien (Bilder/Videos) fehlen, die kommen aber alle wieder.

#Mastoadmin

Achtung #Fnordon, jetzt rumpelt's gleich kurz.

Ich schalte den Object Storage von #MinIO auf #SeaweedFS um. Dadurch könnten vorübergehend Medien (Bilder/Videos) fehlen, die kommen aber alle wieder.

#Mastoadmin

Achtung #Fnordon, jetzt rumpelt's gleich kurz.

Ich schalte den Object Storage von #MinIO auf #SeaweedFS um. Dadurch könnten vorübergehend Medien (Bilder/Videos) fehlen, die kommen aber alle wieder.

#Mastoadmin

Achtung #Fnordon, jetzt rumpelt's gleich kurz.

Ich schalte den Object Storage von #MinIO auf #SeaweedFS um. Dadurch könnten vorübergehend Medien (Bilder/Videos) fehlen, die kommen aber alle wieder.

#Mastoadmin

Re-indexing metalhead.club search. 41 hours to go ... 😆

(331,408,165 items / "documents" to be indexed)

#metalheadclub #elasticsearch #mastoadmin

RE: https://about.iftas.org/library/suspected-portal-kombat-accounts/

FYI #fediAdmin #mastoAdmin

I've noticed a very slow trickle of fake accounts registering at my instance recently. They put more work into them than normal:

- they have somewhat convincing usernames
- semi-reasonable descriptions
- emails on custom domains (Hetzner vps usually)
- unique IP per account (often same subnet)
- uploads a profile pic & banner image
- some of them boost a few posts from admin acct

But then these accounts just sit there. They aren't spamming. What is their goal?

#mastoAdmin #fediAdmin

RE: https://mastodon.infra.de/@galaxis/116432917739236724

Kudos to @galaxis. There is an option to disable timelines for non-authenticated users, which also disables remote hashtag access.

Bots are still scraping media, but I hope when queue dries up it will stop as well

#fediadmin #mastoadmin #mastodon

Letzte Nacht haben @marian und ich die #PostgreSQL Datenbank hinter der #Mastodon Instanz gruene.social von Version 14 auf Version 18 aktualisiert und das #Backup auf #pgBackRest umgestellt. Details dazu folgen noch in einem Blog-Beitrag...

#Netzbegrünung #Hackcamp #Mastoadmin

If you're running a Mastodon server, you might want to activate the "authorized fetch" option (also known as "secure mode").

Having this switched on makes your server-level blocks work much more effectively, and helps to protect your server's members from abuse.

It's extremely easy to activate, step-by-step instructions and lots of questions answered at:

🌱 https://fedi.tips/authorized-fetch

#MastoAdmin #AuthorizedFetch #SecureMode #UserSafety #Mastodon

Me: fumbles around for the last 2 months trying to define media lifecycle rules on our two OVH S3 buckets—one for the main data and one for backups—meaning the rules aren’t exactly the same & the volume grows and shrinks rapidly, with a significant inertia)

OVH: waits for my rules to finally be somewhat robust and effective before launching... the rule management UI and the associated documentation 😑

https://help.ovhcloud.com/csm/fr-public-cloud-storage-s3-bucket-lifecycle?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0066010

#MastoAdmin #S3 #OVH

The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#mastodon
#mastoadmin
#goodmorrows
#bible
#salvation

Based on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.

Good news, everyone - since migrating to our physical server, we've processed over 1 billion Sidekiq jobs!

Anytime we process a post, a notification, an email, a retoot, a favourite, etc, that's a Sidekiq job in the background.

#mstdnca #MastoAdmin

Example accounts have been updated:

https://social.roadfm.fr/@akusa
https://social.roadfm.fr/@anyrum
https://social.roadfm.fr/@effiebryant
https://mastodon.lithium03.info/@carolynpalmer
https://mastodon.lithium03.info/@czm2spy
https://mastodon.lithium03.info/@emily-gordon
https://electroverse.tech/@concepcion_thiel
https://electroverse.tech/@jocelynsullivan
https://electroverse.tech/@ugiz
https://todon.ploud.fr/@bryanadavies
https://todon.ploud.fr/@duwa_ury
https://todon.ploud.fr/@ezomo
https://gs.leftic.club/@aji_roti
https://gs.leftic.club/@Okem_Gecyj
https://gs.leftic.club/@VioletQuinn

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #FIMI #Disinformation #Spam

@jorijn

Actually, I moved here ( defcon.social ) and I'm trying to fully migrate to this account.

However, @admin ( noc.social ) is being a c*nt, and not letting migrate my contacts to ( defcon.social )

It's been several weeks, of me trying to contact them, but they're just being a b*tch for some reason. 😆

#Fediverse #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

#MastoAdmins , please take note of this Fediverse pitfall.
Maybe defederate noc.social which seems to be acting maliciously towards me?

@jorijn

Actually, I moved here ( defcon.social ) and I'm trying to fully migrate to this account.

However, @admin ( noc.social ) is being a c*nt, and not letting migrate my contacts to ( defcon.social )

It's been several weeks, of me trying to contact them, but they're just being a b*tch for some reason. 😆

#Fediverse #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

#MastoAdmins , please take note of this Fediverse pitfall.
Maybe defederate noc.social which seems to be acting maliciously towards me?

@jorijn

Actually, I moved here ( defcon.social ) and I'm trying to fully migrate to this account.

However, @admin ( noc.social ) is being a c*nt, and not letting migrate my contacts to ( defcon.social )

It's been several weeks, of me trying to contact them, but they're just being a b*tch for some reason. 😆

#Fediverse #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

#MastoAdmins , please take note of this Fediverse pitfall.
Maybe defederate noc.social which seems to be acting maliciously towards me?

@jorijn

Actually, I moved here ( defcon.social ) and I'm trying to fully migrate to this account.

However, @admin ( noc.social ) is being a c*nt, and not letting migrate my contacts to ( defcon.social )

It's been several weeks, of me trying to contact them, but they're just being a b*tch for some reason. 😆

#Fediverse #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

#MastoAdmins , please take note of this Fediverse pitfall.
Maybe defederate noc.social which seems to be acting maliciously towards me?