I've definitely said it before, but I really, really wish mastodon had any actual admin/moderation tooling.

Quite frankly what we can do as moderators or admins is so incredibly little. Spammers and abusers know this, and make ample use of it.

I've submitted an feature request over here for some additional tooling, but I doubt we will see it soon: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34209

Does anyone know of any tools that do exist, are there forks out there with improved moderation tooling?

We will need to retire the option to use namespaces in Redis (i.e. setting the REDIS_NAMESPACE environment variable) in Mastodon 4.4.

If you run a Mastodon server and currently use Redis namespaces, please have a look at this discussion and leave some feedback:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/34198

Thanks!

Nicole, Nicole, Nicole, Nicole …

Ich hoffe nur, dass ich nicht irgendwann aus Versehen eine echte Nicole mitsperre.

howdy, folks - it's been a bit since our last #hachyderm infra check in.

stuff in motion:

- ditching #terraform cloud & tf for #opentofu and #atlantis. we are just about to import our dev environment and put it through its paces.
- bringing #postgresql under ansible management. the team has been doing awesome work, and we've started to spin up dev nodes using the new playbooks. soon: production!
- moving #DNS zones away from AWS route 53. we chose bunny DNS as our provider and have been doing basic tests in dev. we'll likely prep our records for production this week with a plan for a cutover in one of the coming weekends.

and if you filled out our volunteer form and haven't heard from me in a bit - you're still on the list. we'll onboard a new batch of folks in the next couple of weeks.

@hachyderm

If you care about what you're building, don't host your stuff with Hetzner. Don't trust them.

They will take you down without warning and won't answer your queries. For sure, they'll send you an invoice, tho.

Happened before with @Ursalzona and other fediverse servers, happened now with this Peertube instance, and it's best to avoid being their next victim.

Go host your stuff somewhere else. And keep your backup routines working.

@daltux: https://snac.daltux.net/daltux/p/1742167277.002365

'Nicole' just took an arrow to the knee. In what seems to be a somewhat persistent scam, 'Nicole' creates profiles at multiple instances, usually with poor moderation. Same PFP, same profile text and goes spamming others with discord links.

I went hunting and sniped a few. They won't be spamming anytime soon again

The "spam wave" with the (now famous) Nicole account underlines how poor the moderation tools are on Mastodon. It's currently not possible to automatically quarantine such profiles… #mastoadmin #fediblock

Can we get rid of the Fediverse Chick already? This is starting to get on my nerves

trying out native post fetching functionality in mastodon instead of fedifetcher. wonder how that'll work.

https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/blob/bc8b112deb49b6f42e3d2508824756858a891343/.env.production.sample#L320-L339

Irgendwer von euch Menschen auf https://machteburch.social benutzt scheinbar eine seeehr alte Version von Fedilab und produziert dadurch serverseitig eine seeeehr große Menge (unkritischer) Fehler. Also gerne mal auf Updates prüfen, dankeschön #mastoadmin

Mastodon update 4.3.6 #mastoadmin

Successfully updated my instance’s host from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS.

Ran into a dependency issue after reboot, but ‘bundle install —force’ fixed it.

All is well.

I'm looking to make a few minor changes to Mastodon using custom CSS, but I'm not sure how to target e.g. bgcolor for the light mode without impacting the dark mode. Anyone got any pointers? I can't find anything useful online.

entire day blown upgrading dialup.cafe to mastodon 4.2.x latest. the upgrade to 4.3 is an absolute nightmare of dependency hell, and proved impossible for my mac server

family favourites included charlock_holmes ruining everything for everyone

edit: if anyone runs into the now-infamous failure to install charlock_holmes, the solution is to manually edit Gemfile and replace its version#

gem 'charlock_holmes', '~> 0.7.9'

Hallo https://machteburch.social,

wir haben gerade unsere Instanz auf Mastodon v4.3.6 hochgezogen und damit den Bugfix-Release v4.3.5 übersprungen.

Das aktuelle Update enthält ein Sicherheitsupdate. Weitere Informationen gibts hier: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.6
bzw. hier: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.5

Wir haben auf die Mastodon Version 4.3.6 upgedated. Dies beinhaltet wichtige Sicherheitskorrekturen für alle, die SAML Single-Sign-On verwenden.
Bitte weiter tooten

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.6

Mastodon security patch released

The Mastodon team has released new versions that fix a security issue related to SAML single-sign-on.
It is strongly recommended that admins upgrade to the latest version of their branch ASAP if they use SAML, or are on the development version.

Post by @MastodonEngineering: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/114155825165600847

Changelogs:
4.3.6 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.6
4.2.19 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.19
4.1.24 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.24

Updated radiosocial.de to mastodon v4.3.6 #mastoadmin