My instance has been upgraded to Mastodon v4.3.4. No issues.

Masto.nu has been updated to Mastodon v4.3.4. This is a security update. More information can be found here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.4

Question for #fediverse smarties:

I'm considering setting up a personal mastodon instance at a subdomain of my website. If I decide to switchaway from mastodon to some other #ActivityPub software flavor in the future, can I still use that same subdomain, or will I have to change it to avoid AP weirdness? I'm hoping to create a sort of permanent address/identity.

Is there a way on Mastodon to see all content that our users produce?

The "Local timeline" only shows initial posts, and not replies to other content.

/cc @Gargron

Masto.nu has been upgraded from Mastodon 4.2 to 4.3. #Mastodon #MastodonAdmin #upgrade

Weiß jemand, wie #Mastodon #Instanzen untereinander agieren?
Ich #frage für die tolle, neue Instanz https://punkstodon.de
Dort stellen sich Accounts, denen ich mit diesem Account folge, ganz anders dar. Z.B. sehe ich über punkstodon Antworten auf einen Beitrag (den ich von hier geteilt habe) nicht.
Kommt das mit der Zeit, weil die Instanz so neu ist? Oder muss die neue Instanz "aktiv" föderiert werden?
#Admin #MastodonAdmin

Does anyone have a good guide on how to increase toots character limits w/ Mastodon on docker-compose? I seem to be failing...

An die ganzen deutschen Fediverse admins / Mastodon admins :
habt ihr schon mal Abmahnungen kassiert?
hat sich die Gema schon gemeldet, wenn Leute bei euch "videos" hochladen?
Bin am überlegen was in die Richtung aufzusetzen, habe vor dem ganzen Problemen dadurch aber schon bedenken....

Gerne retröt.

Hey #mastodonadmin community!

Is it normal that the hashtags in the discovery tab can vanish? Or is there a error or bug?

I am curious:

How does my Mastodon app (Mastodon for Android v2.9.0(128)) know my actual IP address while I am using a VPN?

[EDIT: Nope, my bad. All is working properly.]

This is not a problem for me, it's just something I would like to understand.

Thank you for any links / info to point me in the right direction!

Installed both Tangerine UI and Bird UI as optional themes on my test mastodon instance. It's worth it just for the cute little animations when you boost, like or bookmark things. :)

The current state of Toot Works (https://toot.works):

Total number of users: 100
Users active in the past month: 19
Users active in the past six months: 43

Hosting is currently costing $19/mo. If you want to help out with that, you can use:

https://paypal.me/joesteinbring
https://account.venmo.com/u/Joe-Steinbring
https://patreon.com/TootWorks

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, etc.

If any Mastodon admins are dealing with spam account sign-ups, it's worth noting that these accounts seem to universally use disposable email providers and burner email address. There's a GitHub repo that tracks these providers. All moderation inquiries are sent to a user's email on Mastodon, so there's no legitimate reason any Mastodon user should be using a disposable email address. As such, there's a git repository that tracks these disposable email providers. There are also bash scripts that will import the repository into tootctl for you.

The disposable email git repo can be found here:

• Disposable Email Domains

And the bash scripts can be found here:

• Docker
• Regular/Not Docker

Simply clone the repo and copy the bash script onto your server, then edit the script to point at your Mastodon installation and the directory you cloned the repository to, and it should handle the rest.

Side note: I checked our logs and we had a huge spike in attempted sign-ups from a bunch of different disposable email addresses this week, so I can confirm that blocking them definitely works. ​

Are the hover preview cards supposed to work in glitch-soc?

I updated and they aren't. I saw some commits that turned them off temporarily but those are older ... it looks like it _should_ be enabled now?

but we got nuffin'

#mastodonadmin / #mastodev question: I have some cached remote emoji on my server where the original versions are present, but the static derivative is missing. Is there a way I can recreate the static versions? I'm comfortable writing/running custom scripts.

I'd just delete them with --remote-only so they can get redownloaded, but I've read there's an issue where emoji in display names won't get refreshed when they're encountered.

Question: when I click on Media on many accounts (I guess Mastodon's equivalent of "archive") many of the images seem to be gone...or inaccessible. Which is it, and why? Are they purged by the system after certain dates, or something else? TIA #mastodonAdmin #question #help

Got a link on how best to have your own, economical instance? #DIY #InstanceAdmin #Admin #MastodonAdmin #Mastodon #RetirementReality

For those that run a #Mastodon instance on #Ubuntu server, have you had any issues upgrading from 22.04.4 LTS to 24.04.1? Any tips appreciated.

Knocked my self-hosted instance out by running out of space. Even on a low traffic instance space can run out quickly!

Glad to be back!