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¡Hola Fediverso! 🚀

He decidido mudar mi presencia digital a mi propia instancia de #Mastodon corriendo sobre mi propio servidor. Tras un viaje de migración y actualizaciones, finalmente tengo las llaves de mi casa digital en ms.sptral.com.

Un nuevo comienzo desde cero, priorizando la soberanía tecnológica y el código abierto. ¡Nos leemos por aquí! 🌐🐧

#SelfHosted #Sptral #Fediverse #Admin #MastodonAdmin #Linux #FLOSS #Server #Linux

Done! let go of your butts.

....or don't - you do you.

#admin #mastodonadmin

Critics call FCC router rule a ‘big swing’ that could create more supply chain uncertainty | CyberScoop
https://cyberscoop.com/fcc-bans-foreign-routers-critics-warn-about-supply-chain/

#Cybersecurity #InfoSec #FCC #SupplyChain #HardwareSecurity #NetSec #TechNews #NationalSecurity #MastodonAdmin

Yes, kein DEEPL mehr für Übersetzungen, habe mir endlich libretranslate installiert. 🥳

Hab hier kurz skizziert, wie ich das gemacht habe, falls es jemand brauchen kann:

https://codeberg.org/wurzelmann/mastodon_libretranslate

#MastodonAdmin

Hi #mastoAdmins

I'm trying to help a friend out with his Mastodon instance. An upgrade went badly wrong and mastodon would not restart.

We've rebuilt the server using backups and the server is up and running. It is federating. However no one can login.

If I enable debugging log i get the following for a log attempt in the system logs

Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2) for 127.0.0.1:389):
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075]
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/models/concerns/user/ldap_authenticable.rb:11:in 'User::LdapAuthenticable::ClassMethods#authenticate_with_ldap'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:69:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user_from_params'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:62:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/concerns/auth/two_factor_authentication_concern.rb:12:in 'Auth::TwoFactorAuthenticationConcern#two_factor_enabled?'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] lib/mastodon/middleware/socket_cleanup.rb:11:in 'Mastodon::Middleware::SocketCleanup#call'

RE: https://mastodon.de/@zvavybir/116216042847317147

If you can help me when I fuck up an update again, please follow this new backup account:

:boost_requested:

#mastodonAdmin

Yay, es klappt. Ein Bild vom Nistkasten wird jede Stunde erstellt, Home-Assistant nimmt sich das Bild, jagt es durch ein lokales ministral-3 um den Alt-Text zu erzeugen und postet es dann auf Mastodon.

Jetzt müssen nur noch Meisen einziehen.

(Ich musste den Originalbeitrag leider nochmal löschen weil was falsch war)

https://social.bopinions.de/@nistkasten/

#birdsOfFediverse #meisen #MastodonAdmin #HomeAssistant

Hello Fediverse! We are officially 100% LIVE. 🚀

It feels good to be home.

✅ Mastodon is up and running
✅ PeerTube is officially back online, and the first video is already live: https://tube.devwithzachary.com
✅ The Hub at https://devwithzachary.com is now aggregating everything into one clean feed.

If you're into #SelfHosting, #DevOps, or #VideoProduction, let’s connect!

#Introduction #NewHere #Fediverse #PeerTube #MastodonAdmin #SelfHosted #DevWithZachary

RE: https://mstdn.games/@britt/116013094706931728

So, I helped Britt out with moving her instance to a new server provider this week.

While the people at toot.io were relatively helpful in our email chain (once she was finally able to get a hold of them in the first place anyways), the setup at toot.io was a bit strange and not optimized for an instance of her size. The actual server itself was well *over*powered for her to be seeing the slowdowns she was, and Mastodon & especially Postgres just weren’t using those resources to a full extent.

Honestly the biggest red flag 🚩🚩🚩 to me isn’t what toot.io is doing now necessarily, but that it was apparently sold(?) to completely new management without notice to customers. In a niche service industry like this, that seems like a big problem to me, to not even explain who’s taking over and why you should trust them.

The previous ownership is probably more at fault for this relatively speaking, but it’s probably a good opportunity for toot.io customers to reevaluate their hosting options… Even if you ultimately end up sticking with toot.io, you simply might not be fully aware of what’s going on over at your own hosting company anymore, and that’s always worth double-checking 👀

#MastoAdmin #MastodonAdmin #MstdnGames #InstanceMigration #Tootio

Für unsere Instanz haben wir eine Relais-Anfrage gestellt. Nach über 24 Stunden noch keine Reaktion.
Weiß jemand, wie lange so was dauert... oder muss man da noch, außer der Relais-Adresse im Admin-Bereich, irgend etwas gesondertes einstellen?

#Mastodon #MastodonAdmin #MastodonHelp #MastoAdmin #SelfHosted

Looking for some advice from #MastodonAdmins

What setting do you have WEB_CONCURRENCY and MAX_THREADS for your puma (mastodon-web) service?

I’ve set it 50 and 20 respectively for a pool of 1000 web processes, but I’ve been getting constant overloading with tens of thousands of backlogged connections.

Do I need to adjust the mastodon-streaming service settings also? I increased my database connection limit to 1500 to handle the connections plus extras.

Any ideas?

#mastodonadmin #sysadmin #mastoadmin

Love it when a preplanned server upgrade is done and dusted in 15 minutes.
#MastodonAdmin #SelfHosted #Lighthouse

We just released Mastodon 4.5.6, 4.4.13, and 4.3.19.

These versions contain various bug fixes, including a fix for a moderate security vulnerability.

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

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

#MastodonAdmin

Lighthouse Lore #27

15:16 on a Friday.

Typed one command.
Watched the latest 04:00 Mastodon dump cross the tunnel.

296MB of instance history, drifting home over Tailscale like fog rolling back to shore.

No panic.
No SaaS dashboard.
No “please upgrade your plan.”

Just backups doing what backups do.

Digital sovereignty isn’t loud.
It’s repeatable.

#HauntedLighthouse #SelfHosting #MastodonAdmin #DigitalSovereignty #LighthouseLore

We are moving our instance to a server in the #EU

We are a #nonprofit org in the US and first created our instance in 2017 but don't have the resources to manage it very well, so we probably will use a managed hosting service. 😉

We are planning to support 100 - 200 users on the updated, larger instance.

We've found several services for this. Are there any success / horror stories you can share?

Also, a question: when looking at EU providers, is it sufficient if they are based in the EU to avoid the US chaos? Must they also have to have no business presence in the US?

#hosting #admin #mastodon #mastodonadmin

🧭 Lighthouse Lore — 1224Z
While others slept, the tower shipped.
Kernel renewed. Systems steady.
No downtime. No drama. No excuses.

This is how you build trust in the dark:
quiet maintenance, boring graphs, and a light that never goes out.
Entrepreneurship isn’t noise — it’s reliability. 🌊⚓

#LighthouseLore #SelfHosting #MastodonAdmin #Fediverse
#Bootstrapped #IndieInfrastructure #Reliability #OpsLife

RE: https://goingdark.social/@fanfare/115726138546662109

This outage showed me how much I love this little instance. At the same time, it reminded me that I won't be able to run it completely alone forever.

Teaming up with others would make it stronger and more fun for everyone.If you're interested in helping out, whether you already know Kubernetes or Mastodon administration or you're just curious and willing to learn, please DM me.

Experience isn't required. Enthusiasm is what matters.It could be reviewing configs, handling updates, writing wiki pages, moderating reports, or jumping in for bigger moments.

Occasional help is welcome, and becoming a co-admin would be amazing.

No pressure at all. I'd just love to share the journey with someone who cares about the Fediverse. Thank you! ❤️

#MastodonAdmin #Kubernetes #Fediverse #Community #parenting #mastoadmin

So eben reboot des Servers #mastodonadmin

If you are a Mastodon admin, are you seeing a very large amount of request per second from hundreds of IPs from:

43.173.0.0/16
43.163.0.0/16

Hitting all sorts of randon tags per second?

Just in the past few min:
1601 43.173.174.72
1599 43.173.175.142
1595 43.173.173.171
1585 43.173.172.41
1577 43.173.173.214
1570 43.173.181.151
1569 43.173.175.69
1569 43.173.174.12
1568 43.173.180.198
1566 43.173.181.135
...

#mastodonadmin
#mastodon

Ever wondered why your self-hosted Mastodon (v4.5+) stays completely silent in the official iOS app, while Ivory or IceCubes push notifications without any issues?

I spent the last few hours digging through Rails console hell to figure it out - and the answer is basically a case of protocol "lost in translation".

Here's what I saw:
Subscriptions were created in the database, Sidekiq jobs showed as successful, no errors in the logs, VAPID keys were fine and yet my iPhone received nothing. Total silence.

So I went deeper and triggered a push manually from the `rails console`. And that’s when the truth hit me:

HTTP 415 Unsupported Media Type: "Unsupported Content-Encoding: aes128gcm"

This is where the puzzle finally made sense.

It got stuck between two different eras of Web Push encryption:

Modern: Mastodon uses the "webpush" gem (v1.1.0), which automatically sends notifications using "aes128gcm" (RFC 8292) when VAPID keys are present.
Legacy: The official Mastodon Push Relay (app.joinmastodon.org) - the thing that forwards messages to Apple's APNs - still only supports "aesgcm" (RFC 8291).

I even tried patching the gem to force the legacy format, but v1.1.0 quietly ignores any encoding settings if VAPID keys exist. It just insists on using the newer standard which the official relay can't understand yet.

So right now I'm stuck with no working push on the official iOS app, and none of my attempts made any difference.

If anyone knows a workaround to deliver pushes to Mastodon's official iOS client, I'd really appreciate the hint - I feel like I've tried everything.

#MastodonAdmin #SelfHosted #Fediverse #RubyOnRails #iOS #WebPush #Debugging #Mastodon #Push

Mastodon Admin wrapped:

Is this good ?
My instance only exists since the 1st December

Is my instance now cool?
Am i a cool admin?

#admin #mastodonadmin #wrapped

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Don't use Spotify thank you :3

🌙 Tonight’s Lighthouse Lore

Some nights the Lighthouse feels older than the storms around it.
Built on equal parts Linux, late nights, and a stubborn belief that small corners of the internet can still be kind.
No boardroom, no shareholders — just one bloke, a pile of servers, and a flame that refuses to go out.
#LighthouseLore #SelfHosting #MastodonAdmin #IndieWeb

J'ai reçu des signalements sans catégorie ni détails depuis mastodon.iftas.org, pour des comptes avec rien de suspect visible, et aucun post. Je me demande si c'est pas abusif. Vous avez des infos ou des expériences au sujet de cette instance ? #Mastodon #Admin #MastodonAdmin

⭐ COMPLIANCE TOOT

The Haunted Lighthouse just levelled up — full GDPR/ICO-ready data protection framework, DPIA, SAR forms, internal policies, the whole pack stitched together.

Self-hosting feels even better when the compliance goblins are fed and quiet.
Back to building… and hey, don’t forget the paperwork 😉

#SelfHosting #GDPR #SysadminLife #MastodonAdmin

So - eben schnell OS Updates #mastodonadmin #myifn

Checked the CrowdSec stats today.
Turns out the Lighthouse has been quietly keeping the seas calm —
thousands of bad requests turned to mist before they ever reached the shore.
Always nice when the defences do exactly what they should.

#crowdsec #selfhosting #infosec #MastodonAdmin #FediverseOps

Eben Server reboot #mastodonadmin #myifn

@xChaos I've been having issues, too. Most of the posts by the bots are pretty mild, as you say, but with occasional inclusion of posts praising Russian military units' so-called victories and Putin...

I have been getting sign-ups of a similar kind several times a week, but the accounts don't get used.

It seems as if they're being kept in reserve for a sudden flooding of posts at a particular moment.

#mastodon #mastodonadmin #russianbots #propaganda

RE: https://afterspace.rocks/@aleph/115503736765203974

Hey. Wir sind up und tooten weiter. Frisch und clean könnt ihr das auch :mastodon: 🎉
#AfterSpace #MastodonAdmin #MastoAdmin #MastoUpdate

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115503006012708370

Jetzt gehts los. Wir machen ernst 😉
Wenn wir uns wiederlesen sind wir neu.
Bis gleich
#AfterSpace #MastodonAdmin #MastoAdmin #MastoUpdate

Puh, bin wirklich froh, dass es Relays gibt!

Ein großes #Danke an alle Relay-Betreiber*innen - ihr macht das #Fediverse erst richtig lebendig und sorgt dafür, dass auch kleinere Instanzen gut vernetzt sind.

Ohne euch wäre die dezentrale Welt deutlich einsamer.

#MastodonAdmin #Relays #Ehrenamt

Why Mastodon uses a Markdown library which isn't CommonMark compliant? https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet/issues/429#issuecomment-787126321 I just had to use HTML on my last two toots because of that.

#mastodon #mastodondevelopment #MastodonAdmin

Why Mastodon uses a Markdown library which isn't CommonMark compliant? https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet/issues/429#issuecomment-787126321 I just had to use HTML on my last two toots because of that.

#mastodon #mastodondevelopment #MastodonAdmin

My Mastodon server has issues: user profile pictures and media haven't loaded, showing alt text instead. I deleted all media via command line to optimize my instance. VPS usage dropped from 19GB to 16GB of 100GB. I also integrated S3 storage. Any ideas?

#MastodonAdmin #SelfHosting #Fediverse #S3Storage #VPSOptimization

@mamot[email protected] @LaQuadrature@LaQuadrature@mamot.fr

Thanks alot for spamming...

Likely same person
[
"users/a6lzp3eh2i",
"notes/a6m6st54hu",
"notes/a6m6nyw6hp",
"notes/a6m67er7h0"
]

#Mastodon 4.3 is very nice!!

#MastodonAdmin #MastodonUpdate

@[email protected] @mindly[email protected]

We have received a bunch of empty Admin Reports from @mindly.social and our reaction have been to Suspended their system account to avoid further spam from them, and Silenced them to help keeping they users of the grid. This is also done to protect the fediverse against CloudFlare's tracking and spying on users and absorbance of [PII](/articles/MTX-A-79/PII) data

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## About mindly.social

A review of their instance shows us a miss configured instance

Host mindly.social
Software mastodon / 4.2.12
Administrator (Unknown) ((Unknown))

mindly.social.  3600    IN      NS      duke.ns.cloudflare.com.
mindly.social.  3600    IN      NS      jean.ns.cloudflare.com.
mindly.social.  300     IN      A       188.114.97.3
mindly.social.  300     IN      A       188.114.96.3

Mindly.Social aims to be a friendly, non-topic specific community focused on spreading positivity, expanding your knowledge and experiences, and just being plain old happy on social media for once.

@thisismissem @jaz @ocdtrekkie @mdm @mekkaokereke @jwildeboer

Sorry about the tags. I'm just listing this thread as #mastodonServer #mastodonInstance #mastodonAdmin because it seems full of useful resources for the novice and intermediate server wrangler.

Today we have blocked access to/from bae.st for their amount of illegal contents of Loli/CP/CSAM material

#mastodonadmin #bae #baest #cp #csam #csamhosting

@mastodon[email protected] @[email protected] @svenno

What is your purposes of spamming our moderators with this kind of nonsense.

We are fully aware of these posts, so what is it you are trying to a chief, by these reportSpam's?

This fediverse instance allows this kind of posts as we a not bound to any religion. You can see our #AUP at https://docs.matrix.rocks/acceptable-use-policy.html#sensitive-contents which you have fully failed as #fediverseadmin

For that you end up in the #HallOfFame for sending #spamreport and vaisting our time. At the same time your admin account have been suspended from the fediverse

Similar fools can be found at https://matrix.rocks/notes/9kr5sn5kek & https://matrix.rocks/notes/9kr5zzrqey

#mastodonadmin #falsereport #spamreport #reportspam #spam #report

For #selfhosted #singleuser #mastodonadmin folks:

If you were to start over again fresh in 2025, what would be your preferred #Fediverse alternative stack or project instead of #Mastodon?

Asking for a friend. ( #itme )

For #selfhosted #singleuser #mastodonadmin folks:

If you were to start over again fresh in 2025, what would be your preferred #Fediverse alternative stack or project instead of #Mastodon?

Asking for a friend. ( #itme )

For #selfhosted #singleuser #mastodonadmin folks:

If you were to start over again fresh in 2025, what would be your preferred #Fediverse alternative stack or project instead of #Mastodon?

Asking for a friend. ( #itme )

For #selfhosted #singleuser #mastodonadmin folks:

If you were to start over again fresh in 2025, what would be your preferred #Fediverse alternative stack or project instead of #Mastodon?

Asking for a friend. ( #itme )

For #selfhosted #singleuser #mastodonadmin folks:

If you were to start over again fresh in 2025, what would be your preferred #Fediverse alternative stack or project instead of #Mastodon?

Asking for a friend. ( #itme )

@[email protected] This post contains Copyrighted material.

As this content is copyrighted, you can't post it on fediverse.

Since every fediverse server hosting it, is violating your copyright.

Please delete this posts ASAP, as I wont like to be prosecuted by you for yours actions.

The #fediverse is not for #spamming or sales posters, and especially not for spamming with own copyrighted content for which you (might) hold the copyright, without giving other the right to share it in any form with a proper LICENSE.

You should head back to either #meta and/or #alphabet with this type of misbehaviour and attempted terrorism of #fediverse server.

As you are bringing our servers in danger for copyright infringement we have to delete all your content and your account is suspended permanently.

#copyrightinfringement #copyrightlaw #copyright #mastodonadmin #fediverseadmin

@[email protected] This post contains Copyrighted material.

As this content is copyrighted, you can't post it on fediverse.

Since every fediverse server hosting it, is violating your copyright.

Please delete this posts ASAP, as I wont like to be prosecuted by you for yours actions.

The #fediverse is not for #spamming or sales posters, and especially not for spamming with own copyrighted content for which you (might) hold the copyright, without giving other the right to share it in any form with a proper LICENSE.

You should head back to either #meta and/or #alphabet with this type of misbehaviour and attempted terrorism of #fediverse server.

As you are bringing our servers in danger for copyright infringement we have to delete all your content and your account is suspended permanently.

#copyrightinfringement #copyrightlaw #copyright #mastodonadmin #fediverseadmin

@[email protected] This post contains Copyrighted material.

As this content is copyrighted, you can't post it on fediverse.

Since every fediverse server hosting it, is violating your copyright.

Please delete this posts ASAP, as I wont like to be prosecuted by you for yours actions.

The #fediverse is not for #spamming or sales posters, and especially not for spamming with own copyrighted content for which you (might) hold the copyright, without giving other the right to share it in any form with a proper LICENSE.

You should head back to either #meta and/or #alphabet with this type of misbehaviour and attempted terrorism of #fediverse server.

As you are bringing our servers in danger for copyright infringement we have to delete all your content and your account is suspended permanently.

#copyrightinfringement #copyrightlaw #copyright #mastodonadmin #fediverseadmin

@[email protected]

This post contains Copyrighted material.

As this content is copyrighted, you can't post it on fediverse.

Since every fediverse server hosting it, is violating your copyright.

Please delete this posts ASAP, as I wont like to be prosecuted by you for yours actions.

The #fediverse is not for #spamming or sales posters, and especially not for spamming with own copyrighted content for which you (might) hold the copyright, without giving other the right to share it in any form with a proper LICENSE.

You should head back to either #meta and/or #alphabet with this type of misbehaviour and attempted terrorism of #fediverse server.

As you are bringing our servers in danger for copyright infringement we have to delete all your content and your account is suspended permanently.

#copyrightinfringement #copyrightlaw #copyright #mastodonadmin #fediverseadmin

@[email protected] This post contains Copyrighted material.

As this content is copyrighted, you can't post it on fediverse.

Since every fediverse server hosting it, is violating your copyright.

Please delete this posts ASAP, as I wont like to be prosecuted by you for yours actions.

The #fediverse is not for #spamming or sales posters, and especially not for spamming with own copyrighted content for which you (might) hold the copyright, without giving other the right to share it in any form with a proper LICENSE.

You should head back to either #meta and/or #alphabet with this type of misbehaviour and attempted terrorism of #fediverse server.

As you are bringing our servers in danger for copyright infringement we have to delete all your content and your account is suspended permanently.

#copyrightinfringement #copyrightlaw #copyright #mastodonadmin #fediverseadmin