@shanie @dashall The whole thing is backwards: "The administrator of mas.to, one of the largest Mastodon instances, clearly didn’t, and possibly still doesn’t, understand this. Which says a lot about the maturity of the Mastodon ecosystem."
No, it doesn't "say a lot about the maturity of the Mastodon ecosystem". That's like saying because in my opinion one website is shit, the whole Internet must be!
Wow. What a post. https://v.cx/2025/04/mastodon-exit-interview
To pick a few quotes:
"Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind."
"Federation does not work"
Not even mad about these, but hold on...
"Mastodon development does not work"
"No significant progress has been made on Mastodon or the underlying protocols in years, and the development community seems to be content with tweaks around the edges"
What? You dare to undermine my work - and the work of many others - and say "no progress made"? Also, did you forget that the father of the Internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is involved in the W3C - along with many other great names and progress is indeed made? Significant progress.
Someone is truly hurt.
It seems the admin of Mindly.social has disappeared and from what I gather from users there, the instance seems to be not in time with the rest of the fediverse and probably has delays and other issues that will only get worse.
Here's a guide for Mastodon admins on how to moderate your server's trending posts, hashtags, news stories and recommended follows:
https://fedi.tips/how-do-admins-moderate-trends-on-their-mastodon-server
It's highly recommended that you moderate trends in advance by screening them, because this prevents trolls from giving visibility to hate posts. If you allow trends to appear automatically and moderate them afterwards, the damage may be done already by the time you get round to blocking something.
Anyone here got actual experience with running tootctl statuses remove?
Worth doing? Any drawbacks?
Background: I’m concerned about the size of my database growing out of control.
Riddle me this. How can a spammer start their account creation from /auth/confirmation? He does this every week. He never accesses /auth/sign_up. He always first shows up in the logs accessing /auth/confirmation.
I have his ASN blocked by the Cloudflare firewall from accessing /auth/sign_up. I see in the Cloudflare logs that he tried to access /auth/sign_up but got a 403 from Cloudflare. The request is nowhere in my logs. It was truly blocked by the proxy server.
But, then suddenly he's using /auth/confirmation with the same blocked ASN seconds later and creates the account. Today I added the same ASN restriction to /auth/confirmation to try to stop future sign-ups, but this is beside the point.
It's like he tries to go to sign_up, gets a 403, and then uses some alternative means to begin the signup process.
He's not getting in with an invitation code, either.
Can he be using an existing account in some way to get an access token for an API call of some type to begin registration?
How does he do this?
So when is #mastodon going to officially switch to #valkey #mastoadmin #opensource
If you run your own Mastodon and you're pretty techy, you might want to look at also self-hosting its language translation service?
Normally Mastodon servers use an existing translation service's API, but it is also possible to self-host translation service software if it's FOSS (such as LibreTranslate).
A potential advantage is privacy as queries never leave your instance, but a caveat is language data takes up storage space.
Thank you to @thilo for pointing this out! 
Your #mastoadmin teams keep #Mastodon humming—purely on community support. Even $5/mo helps cover hosting and moderation. Donate to your server if you can.
But if you have to choose, please fund PBS / NPR and local public media first: Trump and his billionaire allies are waging a war to gut public media. Independent voices matter.
#SupportPublicMedia #PBS #NPR #Fediverse
Democracy depends on a free press, and independent voices matter.
We're still looking for a Canadian hosting provider that offers a managed PostgreSQL service, if anyone knows of one.
Anyone notice that hashtags created from posts federated from bsky.brid.gy that include hashtags with punctuation point to a URL that still has them in it.
In this example, tag KilmarAbregoGarcia’s goes to URL https://oldfriends.live/tags/KilmarAbregoGarcia's on my instance. It is popping up a 404-error box but displaying KilmarAbregoGarcias results.
I hate 404 errors
Great call. Tagging your post with #mastoAdmin may help get the word out.
Bonus side effect: helps block #fediverseChick spam.
As the admin of a 5 person hosted server, it often feels like we are left out of wider conversations. We don't see all comments from all users on posts of people we follow. Is there anything I can do as an admin to make sure we see as much content as possible? #Mastodon #Mastoadmin #Fediadmin #Admin
Spam Alert
Greetings, fellow wanderers of the digital forest! A familiar, sly presence—once known as Nicole “The Fediverse Chick”—has been exiled from our sacred glade for her disruptive link mischief. In the spirit of foxfire vigilance, it’s now time to initiate a clever pursuit against her continued trickery by banishing any trace of her influence.
May the keen eyes of the kitsune guide us as we ensure that the account below is both swiftly suspended and forever barred from our enchanted realm:
carnassial48 at mastodon.darksheep.social
Anyone know of a server manufacturer in Canada comparable to Supermicro?
Okay, hello any fellow #mastoadmin and/or #hometown folks out there in the wubs, I am in need of some help.
I have twice now failed to do the far-overdue security update from v4.0.15+hometown-1.1.1 to v4.2.10+hometown-1.1.1 — the script I followed, and the errors I was getting from mastodon-web.service, are here: https://gist.github.com/robsimmons/6a55df68ed95a2370ae35a846953a6de
Welp, I just discovered an interesting new feature in the Cloudflare console. 
This is for masto.nyc btw. Currently we don't do a lot to prevent this, but I don't think it would take much to convince us to put a stop to it.
But as always, the @internetarchive is always welcome with open arms 
We've suspended cutiepaws.org because it was sharing NSFW content, supporting pro-contact MAPs, and connecting with instances known for CSAM and grooming.
Thanks to Hazelnoot for the report
