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Do you want to restart delivery to instances that had some technical difficulties a while ago but are now back online?

Don't feel like trawling through 50+ pages of dead domains and testing them all manually?

I have a script for you: https://codeberg.org/GunChleoc/mastodon-scripts/src/branch/main/server_scripts

It uses cURL to check if the domain is still reachable and also checks if it has any account relationships, then either purges it or adds it to a list for manual action via the Moderation UI.

#MastoAdmin

The script's console output, showing an offline domain being purged and a domain detected as online
Listing the domains that are still online and should be restarted manually via the Mastodon Moderation UI.

mastodon-scripts

Useful scripts for Mastodon moderation/administration
Codeberg.org
#mastoadmin

Zum #DatenTag veröffentlicht: Die überarbeitete Version: 1.1 unseres #Mastodon-#Datenschutz-Leitfadens für den Betrieb von 🐘 Instanzen.

✅ Checkliste
✅ Musterdokumente
✅ Datenschutzfreundliche Konfiguration
uvm.

👉 https://stiftungdatenschutz.org/praxisthemen/datenschutz-bei-mastodon

Ein großes Danke an @bfdi und alle, die ihr wertvolles Feedback beigesteuert haben! 🙏 Und natürlich an das Team: @malteengeler, @qbi, @resieguen und @hendrik !

#Fediverse #MastodonDatenschutz #TeamDatenschutz #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #AdminLife #Admins


Datenschutz bei Mastodon - Stiftung Datenschutz

Die Stiftung Datenschutz wurde im Januar 2013 von der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Stiftung privaten Rechts gegründet. Sie ist gemeinnützig und verfolgt keine gewerblichen Interessen.
stiftungdatenschutz.org
#fediverse #mastodon #Datenschutz #mastoadmin #admins #fediadmin #mastodondatenschutz #teamdatenschutz #DatenTag #adminlife @Malte Engeler @BfDI @Hendrik vom Lehn @Rebecca Sieber @qbi

"We want to bring organisations and content creators into the Fediverse, step by step."

Our Foundation co-founder has just published an interesting piece on how we're working to help organisations and content creators find their way to the Fediverse!

For more information on what we plan to do as a charity and how Patchwork, a new service we'll be launching soon, can help 👇
https://www.blog-pat.ch/enter-the-fediverse/

#Fediverse #SocialMedia #FediDev #FediAdmin #MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Technology


Organisations and content creators enter the Fediverse

In a Fedicentric world, everything revolves around Mastodon. Mastodon has around 80% of the monthly active users on the Fediverse. Mastodon sets the standard, and is where the action is.
Michael Foster (Patchwork Blog)
#fediverse #socialmedia #mastoadmin #technology #MastoDev #fediadmin #fedidev

English translation from ad12's account:
(top post)

Some people say I'm going against the law but I'm under the age of 14 so I am protected by the Juvenile Act and I don't think spamming is illegal in the first place.


(bottom post)

The person who spams is me.
It has nothing to do with the person who did the crime advance notice.
Just to clarify.


#fediblock #fediblockmeta #fediadmins #fediadmin #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #spam

#spam #mastoadmin #fediblock #fediadmin #mastoadmins #fediblockmeta #fediadmins

Good morning #mastoadmin! :blobcatcoffee:

I was expecting at least 4-5 more servers in my reports list when I woke up, unexploited agents yet sent to the dark side of #spam through unmoderated registration, but amazingly, zero. Were you so lucky?

  • No spam this morning! (50%, 9 votes)
  • One server, not bad. (5%, 1 vote)
  • The relentless torrent never stops! (0%, 0 votes)
  • Not an admin, just want to see results! (44%, 8 votes)
18 voters. Poll end: 8 months ago

#spam #mastoadmin

#facebook #Instagram #mastoadmin #meta #threads #fedipact

I've asked for help with setting up a mastodon server before and gotten nothing.

Asking AGAIN. PLEASE

Its running and I can login with the admin account but its not getting anything from the fediverse, my other 3 accounts on different servers are not connecting. Please, someone help me.

#MastoAdmin #mastodonhelp #mastodon

https://beamship.mpaq.org is getting closer.

@admin is finely starting to get something.

At long last, beamship is LIVE!!! Thank you ALL. It was a DNS resolution error, was using our internal DNS 😭 so, THAT has a problem to... Next problem is the email system.

Update (10-27)
All is working up to the email confirmations. Still not sending messages to confirm new accounts and probably notifications.

#mastodon #mastoadmin #mastodonhelp @Admin

Fellow Masto Admins,
Kindly upgrade to the latest release of Mastodon as soon as possible.

#mastodon #mastodev #mastoadmin #security #fediverse #cve

#fediverse #security #mastodon #mastoadmin #MastoDev #cve

New feature in Mastodon 4.2 that I am very happy about: non-dismissable and very red notices for server admins when there is a new security update available.

We also sent emails to admin. This is all done locally by your instance, it (anonymously) fetches the available updates from the central api.joinmastodon.org every 30 minutes.

#mastodev #mastoadmin

#mastoadmin #MastoDev

I can only repeat: do not use STRATO servers. Just saw yourself the trouble and don't.

Their pricing might look good but you get absolute garbage for your money. Unpredictable performance, sometimes degradation to the point of being effectively offline, unannounced downtime and reboots, lying support staff and a lot of lost sleep.

#MastoAdmin

#mastoadmin

⚠️ Hey #MastoAdmin FYI there is a Mastodon security update apparently coming 6 July.

EDIT: Interestingly, the same day #Facebook #Threads launches. Hmm... 🤔

The reason you probably didn't know about it, is because it was only announced* behind a proprietary centralized paywalled garden. (Not Twitter, but the same effect.)

Be ready.

* This is not a recommended way to run an #OpenSource community.
Screenshot of Gagron announcing a security update for all current releases of Mastodon.
#facebook #mastoadmin #opensource #threads

question for #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin — how IS the money side of things going for y’all? are you paying for it all out of pocket or are your users helping out? is this a hobby (that you invest in) or a side job (that provides some extra pocket money) for you? what are the numbers looking like?

because i see so many articles claiming that it’s impossible to run a social media service and not charge your users or bombard them with ads, but i see preciously few instance admins actually ask for help with costs other than hiding a donation link somewhere you can find it if you go looking. so what’s the truth?
#mastoadmin #fediadmin

The #Fediverse needs to learn some serious conflict resolution...

If we ever aspire to become a serious alternative to corporate platforms we can't continue with this behavior. Let me explain.

Two days ago someone created a "The_Donald" community of a well-known #Lemmy instance. Immediately there were cries for defederation, blocking, and suspicion about the admin letting racists run rampant on his instance.

Ultimately when the admin logged in they removed that community. But before they even had time to realize what was happening they were already being accused of stuff and if any instance heeded the call to block, it would have caused damage to the users who would have their subscriptions / follows severed.

Some users who've just arrived from Reddit and bring a fresh perspective are already wary of the shit show this can become.

That instance resisted massive blocks because it was large enough. But what if it was smaller? >>

#Mastodon #Kbin #Project92 #MastoAdmin
#fediverse #mastodon #mastoadmin #lemmy #kbin #project92

oh, here's some JUICY rumored details about meta's plans for the fediverse

tl;dr "Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners."

can't entirely verify their validity but it's still worth posting just in case

#FediPact #barcelona #project92 #p92 #meta #facebook #fediverse #fediblockmeta #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #threads
Louis @louis@emacs.ch You make some strong arguments here. It's great to see you laying out your reasoning in detail and with passion. theart: That's the spirit. What | have learned, however, is that Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners. Meta positions itself as a “savior’, because especially the big instances have a very strong financial pressure. Users take it for granted that someone else is paying for everything. In these contracts, Meta also specifies the rules regarding the moderation. Instances will have the option of allowing ads from Meta or not (with the benefit of additional compensation). Smaller instances will have the possibility to register for a federation with Meta in a second step, but there will be no financial compensation and Meta decides if they will grant access based on their reputation.
Regarding Meta, I'm in the industry for 25 years and have a few friends who worked at Meta from the early years until recently. One s stil there. Regarding UFol, | was part of the disussion at the time, we held a vote at Emacs.ch P R S But don' take this at face value, obvisouly these admins have to sign harsh NDAS. But it sounded very credible and | could not imagine it going any ther way. Examples of big instances (from Japan | believe?) show that the long-term burdens are simply unbearable and operators just wait for the right moment to e 1donot critizise Meta for their attempt to use the favor of the hour to their ‘advantage. As a public corporation its theijob to make proft. As I said, its not them who will decide the fate of the Fediverse. ‘Overworked/stressed out admins, high costs for infrastructure, ongoing disputes ‘and moderation challenges are what threaten the Fediverse. It was not meant to ‘9row o fast before we find common solutions for these issues. What do you think?
#fediverse #facebook #mastoadmin #meta #fediadmin #P92 #barcelona #fediblockmeta #threads #project92 #fedipact


Add optional hCaptcha support by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #25019 · mastodon/mastodon

Add optional hCaptcha support based on glitch-soc#1665 and glitch-soc#1667, largely rewriting prior work at glitch-soc#1323 Whenever the environment variables HCAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY and HCAPTCHA_SITE_...
GitHub
#mastoadmin #fediblock #fediadmin

#mastoAdmin

in 48 hours the bsd.network instance will defederate from universeodon[.]com because they added full-text search on all posts that their instance saw. If there are other instances that have such things and we still federate with them, let us know and we'll drop them as well.

we have always enabled "do not index" with all posts from our instance, and their full-text search violates that.

receipts: https://masto.brightfur.net/@IceWolf/110368179138442755
#mastoadmin

Can we please stop throwing around the threat of defederation?

Defederation shouldn't happen unless an instance is a cesspool full of terrible behavior with an admin unwilling to deal with it.

Annoyances like spam can be dealt with by admins without scorching the Earth and going nuclear.

Lets not turn the #Fediverse, where instances are supposed to be part of a larger collection, into islands of instances that have cut themselves off from others because of annoyances.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin
#fediverse #mastodon #mastoadmin

A humble #fediblock / #mastoadmin request: if you’re going to block an instance that is being brigaded by pornbots and for no other reason, might I recommend using the “limit” option rather than suspend? It’ll have a similar effect without breaking all the follower relationships between instances. Mastodon.social was getting hit over the weekend, .top is getting hit today. Who knows which instance will be in their sights tomorrow?
#mastoadmin #fediblock

#MastoAdmin we want to work with y'all on getting mastodon ready for #blanketcon, a #minecraft modding event where modders and players get together to discuss mods and the communities around them. we're trying to make an advanced #fedi integration mod for blanketcon, but we need instance support for it. would anyone be open to the idea?

we really want to improve cross-instance and cross-app interactions. this could be the start of something huge!

:BoostOK:
#mastoadmin #Minecraft #fedi #blanketcon

Docker is turning off the Mastodon foundation’s Docker Hub account unless they start paying, which they’re not willing to do.

If you’re running an instance with containers, they’ll now be available from ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon.

#mastoadmin
#mastoadmin

Even when Twitter’s T&S infrastructure was at its most functional – which I’d say was 2021-mid 2022 – I sometimes saw appeals on content decisions, suspensions, etc. take 2-3 months unless I escalated to personal contacts at the company.

I keep seeing folks expect #moderation and community management decisions on volunteer-run fedi instances to happen in hours – not even days – and jumping to defederation when they don’t get immediate responses. It’s going to burn out so many admins, and makes me sad and worried about the sustainability and scalability of our communities.

#fediverse #fediadmin #contentmoderation #communitymanagement #mastoadmin #mastodon
#fediverse #mastodon #mastoadmin #moderation #contentmoderation #fediadmin #communitymanagement

I also want to state: this decision from the joinmastodon.org website makes ZERO instances show up when a user selects the ‘LGBTQ+’ category. ZERO.

We all know these instances require manual sign-ups to prevent trolls and hate accounts from being created.

This decision is terrible.

Please Boost :boost_ok: this thread for visibility!!

#Mastodon #LGBTQ #MastoAdmin

*RESOLVED*
#mastodon #mastoadmin #LGBTQ

SMASH OR PASS @drewdevault

HE FUCKS LIKE A HARE, ACCORDING TO MY SOURCE(HUT)

BANNED FROM IDK HOW MANY HACKERNEWS CLONES HE WAS ON

WOULD YOU GET IN THE QUEUE FOR DREW?

#fediblock #mastoadmin #cockblock #mutelist #science #technology

@Gargron@graf@alex@pernia@mk@meso@chudbere@CobaltVelvet @dankwraith@monads.online @p TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW

  • SMASH (0%, 0 votes)
  • PASS (100%, 2 votes)
2 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

#mastoadmin #technology #science #fediblock #cockblock #mutelist @Eugen Rochko @Alex Gleason @M. K. Fain @pistolero @anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 @troy ada @hinged death kinnie @Chudbere (Clairebere) :duckjam: @meso @drewdevault

People, please start using CamelCase (aka PascalCase) to break apart words in #HashTags.

It makes it easier to read and more #accessible. Single words are OK to keep lowercase, unless they are proper nouns 😉

As an instance moderator, it makes it easier to review if you're a #MastoAdmin.

#CamelCaseAllTheHashTags

#Mastodon #HashTag #accessibilty

@jamesbritt also shared you can #Use_The_Underbar!

Please #boost this for visibility and to help improve the lives of many people.
#mastodon #mastoadmin #hashtag #hashtags #boost #accessible #camelcaseallthehashtags #accessibilty #use_the_underbar @jamesbritt

- agree 100%. Losing ads and decentralizing control will revolutionize social media and how we connect. But, without ad revenue, admins need to count on end user support for this to scale appropriately. Good, resilient infrastructure can be expensive - and the major platforms of the world recoup that through clicks.

In short - enjoy the platform - but consider supporting the admins! The quickest way for this to go away is for servers to disappear!

#mastoadmin #twittermigration #support
#mastoadmin #support #twittermigration

hci.social now implements autoscaling for sidekiq worker queues. 📈 📉

Capacity dynamically adjusts to increase compute during busy periods and spins down unnecessary compute during idle periods.

This also results in a significant cost reduction---we automatically build up and tear down machines on-demand. 💰 #mastoadmin
Two charts. The first is a line chart between 1 and 6. This refers to the number of compute instances. Over time, the instances go up and down depending on demand. The second is a line graph showing how CPU utilization is used to make decisions about instance size. When utilization is high, capacity increases. When utilization is low, capacity decreases.
#mastoadmin

FEDIVERSE SMASH OR PASS ROUND 3

EUGEN ROCHKO OF MASTODON FAME @Gargron

WOULD YOU FUCK THE HOMESTUCK INCEST SHIPPING RUBY ON RAILS DEV

#fediblock #feditips #mastoadmin

@p@book@tarperfume@grumpy@prouddegenerate@pernia@straw@Gargron@Gargron@sjw@graf@alex TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW

  • YES (35%, 7 votes)
  • NO (65%, 13 votes)
20 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

#mastoadmin #fediblock #feditips @Eugen Rochko @Alex Gleason @pistolero @anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 @troy ada @Electric Pants :prince_dance: @:malloc: :mallocpet: :mallocbuddypet: @brea @積ん読 @Gargron @users/grumpy @users/prouddegenerate

Image/photo🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 wrote the following post Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:26:47 +0200

I am offically stepping down as a Council member from the #UFoI in an attempt to choose a more impartial head until an election can be done. If anyone has issue with QOTO being in the UFoI please report it with any evidence and the new head will remove us from the UFoI, thanks.

https://UFoI

#UFI #mastoadmin

@ufoi

🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (@freemo@qoto.org)

44K Toots, 747 Following, 29.9K Followers · Jeffrey Phillips Freeman Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data.
Qoto Mastodon
#mastoadmin #ufoi #UFI

Several Mastodon instances (including Newsie) have come under cyber-attack recently by state-level actors.

If you are the admin of a Mastodon Instance that overlaps arts, human rights, civil society, journalism, or democracy and would like FREE cyber security protection from Cloudflare as part of Project Galileo please reach out as Fourth Estate is a long-time Project Galileo partner

See: https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/

#mastoadmin #mastodon

Project Galileo

Through Project Galileo, Cloudflare provides free cyber security services to organizations supporting the arts, human rights, journalism, and democracy.
Cloudflare
#mastodon #mastoadmin

To all Mastodon-admins: seems like there's an attack on all instances by troll accounts. Servers get slow because of it.
They use thousands of subdomains of activitypub-troll.cf. My 'pull' queues skyrocketed.

I now blocked the domain activitypub-troll.cf and all is back to normal. Please check if you're hit too.
#mastoadmin #fediblock
#mastoadmin #fediblock

Can anyone direct me to a comprehensive explanation of how/what posts show up on a an instance's federated timeline?

Particularly, I'm referring to an #Akkoma instance, but I wonder if the mechanism is similar for all #ActivityPub servers.

#Admin #MastoAdmin #MastodonAdmin #FediAdmin #Pleroma
#activitypub #pleroma #mastoadmin #admin #akkoma #fediadmin #mastodonadmin

I'll be honest here, as a humble instance admin receiving all kinds of DMs and emails...

The abuse, excessive reports... folks our instance grew from 60 users to 22000 in the span of two weeks. I didn't expect to suddenly commit 6-8 hours of my day to this. Knowing I have other commitments like a day job and other things.

I'm burning the candle on both ends here. Look at this toot timestamp. Please save space for some patience.

Y'all clearly don't remember this image:

#mastoadmin #mstdnca
#mastoadmin #mstdnca

Proposed resolution:

When Tumblr joins the fediverse by implementing ActivityPub, we should:
- Defederate Tumblr if they inject ads into the federation for our users, and
- Defederate Tumblr if they place federated posts (our posts) alongside ads.

No ads on fedi.

#MastoAdmins #mastoadmin #meta
#mastoadmin #meta #mastoadmins

Reminder: if you're a new admin to the fediverse, you're going to need to look up and comply with your local laws around objectionable content, reporting, and copyright infringement requests.

Not doing this could end badly for you.

#FediTips #MastoAdmins #MastoAdmin
#mastoadmin #feditips #mastoadmins

assets:precompile killed my poor little 4gb droplet #mastoadmin

resized to 16gb for a moment to clear that up. I do not regret the downtime but if you have users you might.
#mastoadmin

liebe #neuhier|s,

wisst ihr eigentlich, das trumps https://truthsocial.com auf mastodon-software basiert?

und ihr davon nur nix mitbekommt, weil eure #mastoadmin|s nazinetzwerke einfach komplett blocken?

sachen gibts ....
#neuhier #mastoadmin

If your Mastodon admin is thinking about changing their instance colour scheme, this article might be useful to them:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/using-custom-css-with-mastodon/

#MastoAdmin #MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips #Themes

Using Custom CSS with Mastodon

Mastodon has an option for applying custom CSS from within its administration panel. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any examples of what this CSS sho...
battlepenguin.com
#mastodon #mastoadmin #mastotips #feditips #Themes

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