Currently pondering whether to migrate this account to a self-hosted GoToSocial instance.

My main concern is #safety and I see that GoToSocial supports #blocklists

What blocklists do people usually recommend out there?

Mastodon admins (especially single-user servers),

Are you using hashtag relays but not seeing posts from those hashtags in your Home timeline? Also, is your Explore page blank?

There's a video by @fedihost which explains these and what to do about them:

https://video.fedihost.co/w/f3t7ZEiRtXGD8ajArCknh3

TL:DW - For relay tags, you need to also follow the relay hashtags from your account on your server. For Explore being blank, this is due to servers not trusting boost numbers from each other.

If you're running a single user or very small Mastodon server, you might be interested in using Hypebot:

https://codeberg.org/tante/hypebot

Hypebot is bot software that boosts posts to your server that are trending on whichever other servers you select.

(This needs a bit of tech knowledge to set up.)

Fedi Instance Admins: S3 buckets and CDNs. Public buckets with a CDN are simple enough.

Private buckets with signed urls...I understand how they work. Call the S3 API to grab a signed URL for a specific private asset, the URL lives short term. Anyone with that signed url can access it (?).

But doesn't it negate the function of a CDN? Seems like using signed URLs would be much more costly since you can't cache them for very long.

This is an important announcement for all Sharkey instances running on the development branch: Do not pull in the latest Sharkey version (2025.4.2)!! There is a bug with one of the migration that completely and irreversibly unsets (clears) the bios of every account - both local and remote - on the database.

#Sharkey #SharkeyAdmin #FediAdmin

If you're running a public Mastodon server but you have additional features not available on vanilla Mastodon, you might want to tell people about them in your server description. (For example some have higher character limits, more poll options, markdown text formatting etc.)

Whatever your server's extras are, they can be a really good "hook" for people who are trying to find a new home on the Fediverse, and it encourages them to read more about your server.

Are you running a small Mastodon server? Do you want to increase how much of the Fediverse is visible to your server?

Here is a guide to how you can build up connections with the rest of the Fediverse more quickly:

https://fedi.tips/using-relays-to-quickly-expand-a-servers-view-of-the-fediverse

TL:DR - Follow accounts and groups relevant to your server, subscribe to relevant topic-specific relays, install Hypebot, install FediFetcher.

You don't have to do all of these, but each one helps.

Anybody out there in GIS or urbanism or sustainability or transportation planning or any related field interested in taking over this server? I hate to have move again...but the owner is leaving mastodon.

I recently created a small, silly icon emote pack togehter with the community, and I occasionally add more icons to it.

You can use the icons to annoy your Fediverse instance administrators and moderators!

https://ramses.coffee/emotes/sillyicons/.

An alle, die gerne KI / AI / LLM tools (ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.) verwenden oder nur zum Spaß damit herum spielen, bitte nehmt euch die 5 Minuten und lest euch das durch:

https://blog.campact.de/2025/05/ki-randaliert-im-netz-admins-halten-dagegen/

Das ist nicht übertrieben, nicht gelogen, nicht schlecht erfunden. Das ist die Realität, mit der wir (als Admins) tagtäglich kämpfen, die regelmäßig zu Aufwänden (und Ausfällen!) führt.

COLON THREE CAT FACE PRIDE EMOJI PACK!!!

our wonderful cyberpunk.lol co-admin @rachaelspooky has put together yet another super fuckin awesome emoji pack!!!

these and faer other emoji packs are free to download here https://rachael.cafe/emoji/

consider donating to help rachael pay rent and stay housed!!! https://cyberpunk.lol/@rachaelspooky/114541952062212143

full set and more info at https://cyberpunk.lol/@rachaelspooky/114536249071822630

Such exciting news for the instance!!! After literal years we finally have an official "About" page including guides and explainers, moderation procedures, and "Rules"! Thank you so much to @onyinyang for all of your incredible work on this!

https://niagara.social/about

Mastodon admins,

If you want to remind your members to add image descriptions, there is a piece of custom CSS code you can use which puts a red border around posts without alt texts. Instructions on how to do this here:

https://fedi.tips/how-can-mastodon-server-administrators-automatically-remind-their-users-to-add-text-descriptions

Mastodon is all fun and games until you realise it can become a very heavy and hungry piece of software.

If you're thinking about spinning your own fediverse instance, take a look at GoToSocial, Hollo or Snac.

GoToSocial is a very secure, privacy-minded alternative and can run without complications in a very cheap VPS with only 512 MB of RAM and a database file (SQLite).

have any admins running the glitch-soc or vanilla mastodon main branches enabled the fetch all replies functionality yet? if so, have you noticed any differences or things to be aware of? i'm looking to try and enable it on wetdry.world once the changes for updating statuses when fetching replies are applied

#mastoadmin #fediadmin

Total annual cost of running this #gotosocial instance: $37.

$25 for VPS (1 vCPU, 3GB RAM and 100GB NVMe)
$12 for domain

A year of #fediverse for the price of two months of ad-free #netflix.

Hallo!

Wir hosten ja (bekanntlich?) auch https://feddit.org, die größte Lemmy Instanz im DACH-Raum. Da gab es in letzter Zeit leider ein paar Ausfälle.

Auslöser: unterm Strich wieder AI/LLM scraper bots.

MMn Ein weiteres Signal dafür, dass diesem Unwesen endlich Grenzen gesetzt werden müssen. Es wird langsam unmöglich, öffentlich zugängliche Webservices zu betreiben, da die scraper so zahlreich und aggressiv sind und laufend für hohe Serverlast und downtimes verantwortlich sind.

Was das global gesehen zusätzlich für einen vollkommen sinnlosen Energieverbrauch bedeutet möchte ich gar nicht wissen .

Details dazu in unserer Wiki als RCA:

https://wiki.fediverse.foundation/books/fediverse-foundation-announcements/page/incident-fedditorg-partial-disruption-2025-05-02-2025-05-08

Viele Grüße und ein schönes WE, eure
Fediverse Foundation

suigow.xyz upgraded from #GoToSocial v0.19.0 to v0.19.1. That was easy peasy.

Hallo zusammen!

Wir haben gerade den neuen patch release 4.3.8 auf allen Instanzen ausgerollt. Es ist nur ein kleiner release der ein Sicherheitsproblem behebt.

* https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.8

Viel Grüße und schönen Abend,
Eure Fediverse Foundation

Edit:
PS: bitte wie immer Browser mit Ctrl+Shift+R neu laden, falls ihr Darstellungsprobleme haben solltet.