#mastoadmin

friendly reminder we host an open, self-hosted ActivityPub relay based in the Netherlands

https://relay.disobey.net

#mastoadmin

friendly reminder we host an open, self-hosted ActivityPub relay based in the Netherlands

https://relay.disobey.net

#mastoadmin

Not sure why, but after migrating from IOC.exchange to a selfhosted #snac instance and then to #hollo, less than 250 of my originally 980 followers have moved over with me. A bit susprised since account migration has been a basic feature on #Mastodon for several years now. @hollo

#fediverse #mastoadmin

Not sure why, but after migrating from IOC.exchange to a selfhosted #snac instance and then to #hollo, less than 250 of my originally 980 followers have moved over with me. A bit susprised since account migration has been a basic feature on #Mastodon for several years now. @hollo

#fediverse #mastoadmin

Not sure why, but after migrating from IOC.exchange to a selfhosted #snac instance and then to #hollo, less than 250 of my originally 980 followers have moved over with me. A bit susprised since account migration has been a basic feature on #Mastodon for several years now. @hollo

#fediverse #mastoadmin

Just finished optimizing and checking things after being away from this machine in particular for a while. Our server stack could theoretically handle 5k more registered users and about 1500-2000 monthly active users before we'd need to start thinking about scaling up.

Right now, we have 889 users and around 410 monthly active ones and we're running at roughly 25-30% capacity. Plenty of space to grow.

We're federating with nearly 42000 other servers, which is actually the heaviest part of running an instance, not the local users. Every boost, reply, and follow across the fediverse adds work for our servers.

It was never my intention to grow this server this much or even have this many users, but now we have regular people, authors, political parties, organizations, YouTubers, and more. I'm still amazed about this. Yet I'm keeping a low profile because, even though we have our own admin team, at the end of the day this is still my hobby project organized by me and my wife.

That said, I've done my best to keep things as flexible as possible, and our finances are stable. I'm really glad my "hobby project" has brought so much joy to so many people.

If you know someone looking for a Mastodon home, we've got room 🏠

#MementoMoriSocial #MastoAdmin

Welcome to MastodonBD!

While our primary focus is Bangladesh - its people, culture, technology, and public discourse - the instance is open to everyone, regardless of location. We encourage respectful dialogue, diverse perspectives, and meaningful connections across borders.

If you believe in open social networks and constructive conversation, you are welcome here.

Let’s build this space thoughtfully, together.

#fediverse #mastodon #mastoadmin #bangladesh #dhaka #asia

Age verification on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au:

- Sign-ups are disabled, you need an invite link from me to sign up.
- If I give you an invite link, it's because you're related to me, I've met you, and I know you're over 16.

The only exception to the latter is if it's a bot that I set up (I've made two so far). These are obviously *not* more than 16 years old, nor have I "met" them, but I have access to their source code and control of the process that runs them.

I don't take responsibility for age verification of remote accounts: that is the responsibility of the moderators on *those* servers.

#MastoAdmin #AgeVerification #aupol

Because of AI/LLM signups at our instance, I've decided to disable requests via Mastodon to sign up. If you want an account, please send a mail to info [at] collectifission [dot] nl so we can have a talk before I'm sure you're not a bot.

Sorry, this is the world we live in now.

#MastoAdmin

¿Desea contribuir con los costos de Mastodon.CR y otros proyectos del Fediverso costarricense?

Hágalo en https://www.impulsait.com/producto/patrocinio-mastodoncr-y-proyectos-del-fediverso-tico/

He creado esa página con una explicación de cómo funciona la gobernanza y operación de #MastodonCR, los costos aproximados mensuales con un desglose de servidores y enlaces de pago, cuentas bancarias, SINPE móvil, etc.

Operar una red social no es gratis. Hacerlo respetando los derechos de las personas usuarias sin publicidad tiene costos económicos y de esfuerzo humano importantes. Por más de 2 años los costos ha sido cubiertos por mí y mi empresa @impulsait como un compromiso de aportar positivamente a la sociedad, mi plan es seguir ofreciendo el patrocinio humano, tecnológico, legal, financiero y fiscal por muy largo plazo, de forma transparente y con respeto a la privacidad y seguridad de las personas usuarias.

¿Qué cambia ahora? Que las personas usuarias podrán tener la oportunidad de participar económicamente del proyecto y compartir un pedacito de la carga financiera si está dentro de sus posibilidades.

Dicen que lo perfecto es enemigo de lo bueno. El uso de mi empresa es la mejor forma he logrado dilucidar para operar esta comunidad. He leído muchísimas experiencias de comunidades del Fediverso que terminan cerrando por dificultades económicas y desgaste humano, eso no nos puede pasar a nosotros. Estoy abierto a construir junto con la comunidad mecanismos para que construyamos un espacio seguro, colaborativo y sostenible en el largo plazo.

Tengo mucho orgullo de lo que hemos logrado hasta ahora y me da ilusión lo que está por venir.

Vamos un paso a la vez en este camino imperfecto pero que lo construimos juntos.

#Mastoadmin #CostaRica #Mastodon #Fediverso

Viceversa, if any user would be against this decision, the staff is open for discussing it through Mastodon/Discord/Matrix. Should this not be enough, I completely understand if you would leave The Gamer's Tavern and there won't be any hard feelings.

If you're going to reply to this thread remember: "In a world where you can be anything, choose to be gentle"

Alex out.

5/ 🧵

#Threads #Meta #TheGamersTavern #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

We're in for one of the darkest periods in the history of mankind, with most of the world political parties turning to the far right wing, and for the little we can, we will always make our users the top priority.

In case you would not feel safe anymore in your Mastodon home, know that there will always be a seat for you at The Gamer's Tavern.

4/ 🧵

#Threads #Meta #TheGamersTavern #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

But, with all the recent fuckeries about AI profiles, sketchy content and the cherry on the top, the full endorsing and usage of the Trump administration to leverage the avoidance of the stricter (and thank the gods for that) European laws against hate speech, harmful contents and whatnots in social media, we took the decision with a heavy heart to save our users and de-federate completely with Threads.net

3/ 🧵

#Threads #Meta #TheGamersTavern #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

When Threads started federating we knew that sooner or later something bad would happen, but we decided at the time to go for a mild approach and just limit the federation.

That mean that no posts from Threads were available from the get-go in the Federated timeline and following an user would require to know the handle.

We decided to do so with our users in mind, to give them the chance to broaden their home timeline

2/ 🧵

#Threads #Meta #TheGamersTavern #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

Hey adventurers!

Get ready for a thread(s).

With all the recent heat about Meta and seeing that the company decided to fully take advantage of a pretty much fascist political party to leverage their own needs, after a peaceful discussion the staff at The Gamer's Tavern decided to de-federate from Threads.net effective immediately.

1/ 🧵

#Threads #Meta #TheGamersTavern #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

Does anybody know which versions of glitch.social are patched? Does it follow the same pattern as vanilla mastodon?

#MastoAdmin

I have added the most popular Fediverse software to the sample config. Firefish versioning needs a custom regex 😬

Anything that's older than ca. 1-3 months gets silenced by this config, and versions that are ca. 1 year or older get suspended.

The script will demote any suspend to silence if the server knows about a follow relationship.

The current sample config will block around 4000 outdated servers 😱

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Spam #InfoSec

Scripts to identify abandoned versions of Mastodon and push a blocklist, or automatically manage using ready-made blocklists: https://codeberg.org/GunChleoc/mastodon-scripts/src/branch/main/blocklists

Update:
- Push block update if only the comment changed
- Never block your own domain
- Improve formatting of console output
- Add firebird.com domains with non-standard versioning to sample allowlist

Update:
- Upgrade to Mastodon.py 2.1.4
- Add sleep for fediverse.observer's flood control

#spam #Mastoadmin #FediAdmin

In regard of the new announced (too much for my taste) bluesky bridge., I had the displeasure to enforce full suspension of snarfed.org and brid.gy domains from federating.
Not only in my opinion, it's a disloyal move to all the #fedi to make those OPT-OUT by default and whith all the trump and whistle it feel more like an ad campaign than a true "improvement /innovation"

@snarfed.org@snarfed.org I really wish you would stop the project, make it opt-in and then propose it again.

#mastoadmin

So its done! I finally released a fairly easy to install (from scratch) Hugo based Static Site generator with full ActivityPub support.

It has step-by-step instructions on how to set it up for your own blog or static website.

One of the coolest features for me, other than having your static site blog posts show up as posts in the Fediverse is the support for interacting with those posts. Any replies you leave, likes, or boosts will show up in the "comments" section of the website on the page associated with the post. How cool is that!

#Hugo #StaticSite #ActivityPub #Fediverse #mastoadmin

What happened when I emailed 3000 #Mastodon admins about a critical vulnerability
https://federicoleva.eu/en/posts/2023/mastodon-vulnerability-emails/

#MastoDev #MastoAdmin #MastoMeta #FediAdmin #FediMeta #infosec #email

If you’ve recently joined Mastodon, I’d like to cordially invite you to gamepad.club! We’re a small, chilled instance that focuses on all forms of gaming, from #videogames to #ttrpgs, #TCGs, #wargaming and more!

Setting up an account is easy and free. You can even migrate your existing account, including all your followers, with this handy guide from @feditips https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/

We’re hosted in a UK datacentre with daily backups.

#mastodon #mastoadmin #mastoMigrate

Well, I guess it’s time to take the wraps off this thing: Gamepad.Club is open for new members!

This fresh new instance is hosted in the UK, but open to all! And yes, we’ve signed up to the Mastodon Server Covenant.

Find out more here: https://gamepad.club/about

#mastodon #mastoadmin #games #gaming #instance

#Privacy #GDPR #EUdataP #TERREG #DSA #DMA #DarkPatterns #cookies #NOYB #DuckDuckGo #AdTech #surveillance #DigitalRights #IAB

#Antitrust #Google #Microsoft #Twitter #Facebook #CloudFlare #MicrosoftTeams #Office365 #GoogleAnalytics #WhatsApp #Instagram #Gitlab #GitHub #Apple

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin #FediMeta #ActivityPub #FediAdmin #MastoMeta #PleromaBot #fediverso #CommunityMayNotScale

#OpenCollective #SocialCoop #cooperative #sustainability #cooperatives #commons

I never wrote an #Introduction, because I’m not the best at writing about myself. But since I’m a #MastoAdmin, it’s probably good for me to do. I am the admin of Raphus Social (maybe we should “claim” #raphus).
I’m a big #geek. My interested are all manner of geeky things: #startrek , #dnd5e , #technology, #coding, #iot. I like to make #cocktails , bake #bread 🥖, and post pictures of them.
I studied #egyptology at university so I also randomly talk about #AncientEgypt

Time for my #introduction

I've been in the IT field since 2002 but have been a nerd since I got my first computer in 1987. I've done a lot over the years, #sysadmin, #itmanager, #sqladmin, #webhosting and so much more. These days I manage #m365 along with assisting with much more. Spare time is filled with #camping, #selfhosting, #family and #gaming.

I'm the #mastoadmin of this instance, Okla.Social, to create a space for those from #oklahoma to come together.

Mastodon Emoji Update:
There are some new Mastodon Emojis.

Instance Admins can download them here -> https://github.com/seppini/mastomoji

#Admin #Mastodon #Emoji #Mastoadmin

Hello,

I am @TheDefiant604, administrator of the Canadian Mastodon Server at https://canada.masto.host/
#CanadaMastoHost

I stopped using Facebook in the middle of 2019 for personal reasons, Twitter shortly after Musk took over, and Reddit just before the API change.

Interests include #Gaming, #Coding, #HamRadio / #AmateurRadio, #OffRoading, #Horses, #Cats, #Movies, #TV, #Music

Currently employed as a Traffic Control Person.

#Introduction #Reintroduction #MastoAdmin #Canada