#pnwzone — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pnwzone, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116296392095869320
In a few weeks, #PNWZone should be able to upgrade to Mastodon 4.6 to get these new profile updates!
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I’ve implemented new security rules to block requests from systems that seem to be scraping media from #PNWZone. Please let me know if you encounter any errors while using the site, as I don’t want to block legitimate users.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989801184595302
Hey #PNWZone community! We’ve submitted interest in this new program to allow new Mastodon users learn about our instance during their signup process. I’ll keep everyone posted on any progress we make on this.
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#PNWZone has updated https://elk.pnw.zone/ to Elk v0.17.2
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#PNWZone was impacted by the #Cloudflare outage between 5:05am and 6:30am PT today. Our servers quickly caught up on the backlog of posts that were queued up during the outage and all systems appear to be operating normally now.
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Ok. Claude helped me determine that 3 out the 64 4.4 DB migrations scripts were not completed in July (had no impact - just left some cruft in the DB that prevented the 4.5 DB migration scripts from running). Those are now cleaned up and I'll be starting the 4.5.0 migration now. No downtime is anticipated. #PNWZone
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I've finished patching the backend servers, but the actual Mastodon 4.5.0 upgrade is running into a couple issues, so we're up and running fine with 4.4.8 for the time being. I'll continue to debug the 4.5.0 migration scripts. #PNWZone
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Reminder! Tomorrow's #PNWZone maintenance starts at 6am PT. We'll be doing some server upgrades at the same time as the Mastodon 4.5 upgrade, so we could be offline for until 8am or so.
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We'll be upgrading #PNWZone to Mastodon 4.5 on Sunday between 6am-8am PT. We're excited about some of these new features! Check out the announcement here: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115503016101266241
(and in the future, I could just "quote" that post!)
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I'm excited to bring a some awesome new features to #PNWZone in the next month or so. The Mastodon Engineering team is close to releasing version 4.5 with many updates, but the most notable being quote posts and automated fetching of remote replies. The auto fetching which will close one of the major gaps for smaller instances like ours where it feels like we're not seeing the whole thread (because we weren't).
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/
https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115378848435180844
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Alrighty. We've completed the #PNWZone upgrade to version 4.4.1. We also patched some backend servers to keep everything in tip-top shape. Please ping me if you run into any issues with the new version. For details of all the changes you can see the official Mastodon blog at https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4.4/
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We’ll be updating #PNWZone to run Mastodon 4.4 over the weekend. Watch for a system announcement in the web interface for more details.
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HELLO EVERYONE!
pnw.zone is a free service, but it costs a lot of money to run. And as we grow, the costs grow too.
The generosity of our donors keeps this service running. If each user contributed just $3/month (or more!), this instance would be fully self-supporting.
Your #donation is tax-deductible. If you don’t already donate and would like to, please go to:
https://hcb.hackclub.com/donations/start/pnw-zone
Be sure to follow #PNWZone & admin @CurtisLBray for more information.
Thank you! 🙏 ❤️ #pnw
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HELLO EVERYONE!
pnw.zone is a free service, but it costs a lot of money to run. And as we grow, the costs grow too.
The generosity of our donors keeps this service running. If each user contributed just $3/month (or more!), this instance would be fully self-supporting.Your #donation is tax-deductible. If you don’t already donate and would like to, please go to:
https://hcb.hackclub.com/donations/start/pnw-zone
Be sure to follow #PNWZone & admin @CurtisLBray for more information.
Thank you! ❤️🙏
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We’ve updated #PNWZone to Mastodon version 4.3.5. Release notes are available here https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.5
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Thanks so much for all those that have donated as well as inquired about the finances of #PNWZone. To share some stats... From Nov-Jan, we averaged $86/month in donations. Our expenses are about $300/month. We currently have about 220 monthly active users. If 50% of folks gave just $3/month then we'd be good to cover costs with and build a small reserve. No obligation if your not able to, but if you have the means, the US tax-deductible donation page is at https://hcb.hackclub.com/donations/start/pnw-zone
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Hey #PNWZone users. We've been doing some analysis of our top users and 50% of our top 30 users are all bots that are mirroring Twitter accounts through https://www.sportsbots.xyz/
Given our donations aren't covering our costs, we're going to disable these mirrored accounts starting Feb 25, 2025 to save some cash. Please feel free to directly follow those accounts on Twitter. Thanks!
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We're now on Mastodon version 4.3.1 here at #PNWZone. Minor fixes in this release.
Details here: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/113345421273761855
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@jeff @conspitstop @donnaonthemountain @mako @Jimblomquist @KathleenC @CaryHall @ericg @grooms @lee I’m sorry to hear about the Sanjuans.life shutdown. All are welcome over at #PNWZone. Take a look at who we are and our code of conduct to see if it jives with you. https://pnw.zone/about
You can also browse our local timeline without needing to migrate. https://pnw.zone/public/local
And lastly, no matter where you end up, here’s a helpful guide on the migration process. https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/
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We've completed the Mastodon 4.3.0 upgrade on #PNWZone! 🎉
Please ping me if you see anything that isn't working quite right. A rundown of the major changes is described over in this blog: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/
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Hey #PNWZone! We're looking to perform the Mastodon 4.3.0 upgrade on Friday, Oct 18th @ 5am. We expect there will be downtime during the upgrade process, so we appreciate your patience, but also hope you aren't online that early in the morning 😀
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The Mastodon team released a big update to the world today. Here at #PNWZone, we will be upgrading our server in the next week or two. With this many changes in a single release, we like to lag just a tad behind to avoid any unforeseen issues that may be found out in the wild.
You can read about some of the upcoming changes here.
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@wellschmaltz Can you link an example post that is doing that? The #PNWZone server currently caches remote images, but I only keep them locally for 7 days (soon to be 14 days). If they are deleted from the cache then my server will go back to the original post and request the image again. Outside of a little delay, that should work fine assuming the original image is still available for us to download and cache again.
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PNW.Zone has been updated to 4.2.10 with all the latest security updates (after a brief 5 minute outage! - apologies for that!). Happy 4th!
https://mastodon.social/@update_notifications/112728864603392441
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@theolystandard @natebowling #whitesupremacists #christiannationalists #centraliawa #waleg #pnwzone
Great discussion about how Centralia Chronicle Journalist Isabel Vander Stoep used clear direct language to explain the racist underpinnings of a white supremacy religious group, how the community responded and earlier attempt by Congressional candidate Joe Kent to hide his alliance with white supremacy political groups. A good lesson for other journalists. -
@CurtisLBray interesting, I hadn’t heard about this before. I’ll look into whether I should do this for subdued.social too. #SubduedSocial #PNWZone
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@msw very nice! I’ve been really enjoying working with the C7g instances (both in my day job and for running #PNWZone ) It’ll be nice to have these additional #Graviton3 instance families.
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@msw very nice! I’ve been really enjoying working with the C7g instances (both in my day job and for running #PNWZone ) It’ll be nice to have these additional #Graviton3 instance families.
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@msw very nice! I’ve been really enjoying working with the C7g instances (both in my day job and for running #PNWZone ) It’ll be nice to have these additional #Graviton3 instance families.
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@msw very nice! I’ve been really enjoying working with the C7g instances (both in my day job and for running #PNWZone ) It’ll be nice to have these additional #Graviton3 instance families.
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@msw very nice! I’ve been really enjoying working with the C7g instances (both in my day job and for running #PNWZone ) It’ll be nice to have these additional #Graviton3 instance families.
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Interested in exploring an up and coming Mastodon client? I installed Elk on PNW.Zone and will strive to keep it current with the releases from the @elk team. Give it a spin at https://elk.pnw.zone