Well well....I'm PLEASANTLY surprised by Oliphant pulling his advocation for .art being involved in his blocklists and no longer even hosting ANY Tier besides Tier 0 or the "DNI" list!
That means I'm no longer on "Oliphant's Tier 3 blocklist" for lies by .art...because it no longer exists!
645 days after setting up my own Mastodon instance, I finally tackled tuning my Postgres database config last wk & today setup multiple Sidekiq Processes after my queue got to 10K for the second time this wk
I read the guides multiple times over those 645 days but it never clicked in my head. I was afraid to mess with Sidekiq because I didn't want to brick my instance.
Then today, during the thunderstorm, the old grey cells clicked in and I understood.
2/ I'm sure others can add or even help me with anything I got wrong, or how I can improve this, but here is what I did today out of urgency to scale my Mastodon Sidekiq processes and jobs after getting backlogged twice this week.
We just published our first Trunk & Tidbits post! This will hopefuly be a monthly update where we showcase what we worked on last month, and what's coming next.
I hope this will bring more visibility to all the efforts and love that put on Mastodon
So, creating a block to refuse media doesn't affect the blocked domain's ability to create Preview Cards?
I created several media blocks for instances, esp bot instances that I want to come across posts or follow a few accounts, hoping to control my media storage and stop unnecessary media downloads and SideKiq jobs on posts that will only be stored in my search database from the federated timeline, but the preview cards are still being created. #MastoAdmin#MastoDev
If you aren't aware, the BlueSky-Fediverse bridge known as BridgyFed is live now.
Back when it was announced, there was a small window of time when it was added to the Oliphant's Tier 0 blocklist.
If you are using this blocklist and WANT to be federated with BlueSky, please double check to make sure you don't have the version of the list that it appears on. You may have blocked the bridge and not even know it.
The domain you want to look for is: brid.gy
Please boost for reach, so your admin knows of this possible issue. Thanks. 🙏
I would like to add my Mastodon instance to my browsers search engines list. Interestingly, Miskey and Sharkey and some other federated platforms I've been to are already added.
I'm getting great results for content from my Mastodon search than Google and Bing, + no ads, and tracking.
Is anyone else getting traffic from 216.106.86.232 ?
I will open a report with the ISP
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I'm putting this under #FediBlock because I've noticed that since 12 PM EDT yesterday (30-Apr-2024), API requests coming in from 216.106.86.232 have been returning 500 errors constantly from my server. No other 500 errors were being returned.
I blocked the IP at the Cloudflare firewall and now the 500 errors have stopped. There were more than 93K 500 return codes in total until now!
I have no idea what the requests are, and it's too late at night to do more research, but I'm passing this along to other Admins as a warning and to see if anyone else is seeing similar behavior.
@Gargron
Here's what I see in Cloudflare for the last one hour before blocking the IP address. Notice all the requests returning 500 are from this single IP. There are no page views. It's all API requests. And 500 errors stopped after I blocked it.
#Mastodon forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:
@Mastodon Have you received your tax-exempt determination from IRS? The blog post is written as if you have, but IRS online data doesn't yet show that. The corporation name listed in the blog post and IRS search also doesn't match the incorporated name on file with the State of New York...
flipboard.com is a remarkable collection of accounts that are connected to the Fediverse. There are 5,757 accounts from them that are known on this server (we relay with them and get all their content), and these accounts post about every topic imaginable.
You can follow any of their accounts on your favorite Fediverse app! It's great!
I relay with their server so that searches return a richer result set.
Today, I had to create an extra sidekiq process just to handle the surge of posts from them. But, I think it's worth it.
If you have a specific interest, you might find an appropriate account to follow. I'll be looking through their accounts.
Here's a tiny screenshot to show how specialized some accounts are.
I came across this interesting bit about multiple Mastodon-instances on a single server, howbeit, it's from 2018 and there have been a lot of changes since then.
The author wanted to run two instances off the same base code, different databases, re-using as much existing infrastructure as it could, essentially, and appears to have done so.
I don't know why anyone, other than wanting to migrate their instance to a new one, would do this, but here it is. #MastoAdmin
If you run a Mastodon server, you can easily add a piece of custom CSS which will automatically put a red border around image, video or audio posts that are missing a text description.
You can add it by logging into your server website and then going to Preferences > Administration > Site Settings > Appearance, paste the code into the Custom CSS box and click "Save Changes".
Urgent: PuTTY 0.81, released on 4/15/2024, fixes a critical vulnerability CVE-2024-31497 in the use of 521-bit ECDSA keys (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521). If you have used a 521-bit ECDSA private key with any previous version of PuTTY, consider the private key compromised: remove the public key from authorized_keys files, and generate a new key pair.
Should update FileZilla and other software, too, for same reason. #MastoAdmin
It looks like the Mastodon roadmap doesn't yet have anything listed for moving away from Redis to one of the open source forks. I'm wondering whether there has been discussion of Redict vs. Valkey for the future? #mastoadmin
I'm in the middle of year two of my selfhosted Mastodon instance.
I keep having this urge to backup my database, go offline, migrate my VPS to a dedicated box instead of shared, setup the server again with more tools I need, maybe even a webhost panel so I can move my mostly static other domains and email over, reinstall Mastodon, import my db so I will have a slicker, less patchwork, less "Oh crap, I want to install this, hope it plays nice with my current setup," server setup.
Thinking of switching my instance to glitch solely so i can better interact with you infosec.exchangers and your 11meelion character posts... How do admin folks like it? #mastoadmin@jerry
IFTAS releases a practical guide for fediverse admins and platform creators (among others) subject to the EU’s Digital Services Act. Which would be…everyone.
It's been a little while since I posted tracking updates for Mastodon CVE-2024-23832 which was released on February 2, so here we go.
Patched versions are those released on or after that date, so:
4.3.0-nightly.2024-02-02+
4.3.0-alpha.1+
4.2.5+
4.1.13+
4.0.13+ (EOL)
3.5.17+ (EOL)
13% of active servers (meaning it's responded to my queries in the last week and reports someone is still using the instance) still have still not patched over two months later.
However, these are mostly servers with a handful of users and as a result overall user coverage still looks good at 97%.