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#FediTips #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #Accessibility

@MastodonEngineering

Coming soon in #Mastodon v4.2.0:

👀 3rd-party JavaScript spyware loaded without users' consent.

#MastoAdmin #privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/25019

I'm currently wading through the list of "unavailable" servers in the Mastodon admin interface. A lot of single user instances went away, seemingly recently.

On the upside: Found at least one instance which was marked "unavailable" but is seemingly still there. 🙂

#MastoAdmin #HomeLab

:mastodon: :mastodon_oops: #MastoAdmin I know many of us have mentioned this inconsistency, but I couldn't find an existing issue for it today so made one.

If your instance has a user (or domain) on Limited status, posts from that user or domain can appear on the Home timeline if boosted by a 3rd user that your account follows.

Discussion and comments encouraged!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26301

@ety there's #mastodon_admin:matrix.org for mastodon and has like 700 folks or so. #MastoAdmin

the stop-building-massive-instances challenge

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

There is a solution to issues caused by #growth that really works: it's degrowth.

If you reject it, you are probably not interested in solving any problem. You are just afraid of losing your power.

#MastoAdmin #moderation

What's the tool that some folks have been using to migrate posts to a new Mastodon server?

#MastoAdmin

@rysiek

see https://calckey.social/notes/9hny27vmn12g0bzi

it would have been nice if they had tagged this #FediAdmin and/or #MastoAdmin. Probably safe to say that "All Fediverse Admins" are not following that account.

🤔 It's interesting that the only Fediverse admins I hear complaining about the difficulty of moderation are those who choose to make large instances that don't screen their users.

Or am I missing something?

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

@ylove We’re going to need a name for the subset of the #fediverse that actually moderates CSAM. This statement is as meaningful as “Apache, nginx web servers rife with CSAM”.
#MastoAdmin

📊 #MastoAdmin post your ratios!

I'll start, 51.7%

( active users this month / total users)

:mastodon: 🐧 #MastoAdmin, have you seen any good write-ups with notes, problems, or successes on installing mainline Mastodon on RPM-based Linux distributions?

🐐 Seems like goats are leading over 2-to-1.

Who does #MastoAdmin recommend for instance custom artwork these days?

@chrismessina #MastoAdmin please remember: you can get CSAM from any instance you federate to, or relay with. I hope your moderation work isn’t a thankless job, but this part will never be fun.

Seriously thinking about hosting a personal instance of Mastodon for my own use. I’d like to control where and who gets federated and stuff like that. Would use a hosting service. Any downsides? #mastoadmin #selfhosted

What is the sort order for results to searches on a Mastodon instance? Is it essentially random? Is there some attempt at weighting?

I wish I could sort it by recency but I can't see any obvious way to do that. I just want to find some thing I know I starred in the last couple of days... I guess I can look at my stars, they're in order, but then I can't search them there...

#MastoAdmin

Is it just me or has v4.1.3 not been pushed to ghcr.io? #MastoAdmin @Gargron

⚠️ To be clear, a critical update for #MastoAdmin is dropping the same day #Facebook is launching #threads.

🔎 As always, you shouldn't install software updates until you've verified what is changing. Even when (especially when?) you're told it's an emergency.

@admin That's not a bot; it's the system account for the instance. All of your reports forwarded from other instances come from the system account in this way.

If you have concerns about the reports, best advice is to seek out the admin accounts for the instance in question.

#MastoAdmin