Does anyone else know of other tools for managing blocklists besides FediBlockHole?

Specifically looking for tools that assist in either creating blocklists or importing them into fediverse software. Thanks!

#FediAdmin #FediMod

Föderierte Stellenanzeigen? Sind die schon ein Ding?

Federated job boards? Are they a thing?

#Fediverse #FediAdmin

Server admins!

If you're creating custom emoji, remember to fill in the section marked "Shortcode" with a short text description of the emoji. Blind people's screen reader software will be able to read the shortcode aloud so that they can hear what the emoji is.

If the emoji's shortcode includes multiple words, split them up with underscores like_this or CamelCase, so that screen readers will be able to read each word correctly.

#FediTips #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #Accessibility

The Fediverse works best when instances are small, tight-knit communities where members know each other and most importantly knows instance admin(s), understand rules and are ok with them. Big instance admins meeting Meta under NDA, now backlash regarding @fosstodon enforcing English-only are good examples why you should run single-user instance or join only a small one :fedi: :mastodon: #fediadmin #mastoadmin

I decided to take restrictive actions against @aeris@firefish.imirhil.fr which started replaying all their toots since 2017, which is severely disruptive for my TL and probably everyone following him.

You can see here the public block: https://nixos.paris/about

I reached out to the admin of that instance and will wait until they correct their behavior.

#fediadmin

If you haven't restored from your backup recently, then you don't have a backup.
This is a subpost.
#IT #SysAdmin #FediAdmin

After using XenForo community software for a while I figured I like writing in Markdown much more ✍️ Rich-text editors, bulletin-board code (BB code) or plain HTML - nothing beats :markdown: So I will keep :mastodon: upgrade guide in my :writefreely2: blog since it is the most actively read post of all times there 🤓 https://fedi.dev/gytis/update-mastodon-server-instance #mastoadmin #ubuntu #fediadmin #blogger

#Peertube #Yunohost #fediadmin

Moin,

kleine Info:
Ich habe vor ein paar Minuten den Server von video-cave-v2.de aktualisiert.
Unter anderem wurde PHP, Yunohost und der Kernel aktualisiert.
An der Peertube Version hat sich nichts geändert.

Dir gefällt meine Instanz? Dann würde ich mich über Spenden freuen.
Infos zu diesem Thema findest du hier:
https://video-cave-v2.de/about/instance

Beste Grüße
Euer Admin von video-cave-v2.de

Is there something like rapidblock.org that has a CSV or JSON for commonly blocked fedi instances?

I was using the rapidblock JSON file to check for bad instances subscribed to my #relay. It's been a while since I ran the script, but I remembered today as I was just doing some light maintenance and realised that rapidblock is gone.

#fediadmin #mastoadmin #relayadmin

@chrisamaphone well the one's I'd use to let people know about this are:

#MastodonAdmin
#MastoAdmin
#MastodonServer
#MastodonInstance
#FediAdmin
#FediServer
#FediInstance
#MastoServer
#MastoInstance

I'm assuming that you mean MicroBlogFedi and not solely admins for the Mastodon software, in which case its good to use the right terms to avoid irritating those admins. Could be wrong!

Are there any banner networks for #Fediverse servers? How do you advertise your instance?

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

For creating a Fediverse instance, do you need to have a domain? #fediadmin #askfedi

Had a couple of answers from my GoToSocial account (local members), but hashtags weren't a thing back when I posted it. So reposting here :)

If you're an admin of a mastodon/fediverse instance you should update your robots.txt to block "GPTBot", the crawler made by OpenAI to feed their machine learning models such as ChatGPT.

This is the easiest way right now to prevent public content from being crawled and fed into their datasets, and due to the nature of federation it works better the more instances that do it.

#fediverse #fediadmin #mastodon #ai #chatgpt

https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot/disallowing-gptbot

https://fediverse.to (which is one of the first search results to come up for "fediverse" links on their homepage to far-alt-right Masto instances.

I was looking for a good entry point site for beginners to link to from an article. Certianly won't be fediverse.to!

#fediadmin #fediverse

What do the "Our followers there" and "their followers here" numbers mean? They don't make intuitive sense to me.

#mastoadmin #fediadmin

📃 Notice 📃
Imported blocklist lea.lgbt's blocklist into here and at tonybark.art.

https://github.com/lea-lgbt/blocklist

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #FediBlock #InstanceBlock

If you're not aware, Mastodon 4.2 will directly break relay.fedi.buzz, the hashtag relay that many small instances (like this one) use to pull in posts from other instances based on the #hashtags being used.

This is a massive degradation of function for small instances and our ability to participate in many hashtag-based social activities here like #Fensterfreitag and #Monsterdon and #TCMParty and other #HashtagGames as well.

I've left a rather long comment to this effect here:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/23989#issuecomment-1670115412

They're trying to solve a real problem but they're absolutely breaking us by doing it this way.

If you have a github account, and/or are a small instance user or administrator, you may also wish to comment.

#FediAdmin #Mastodon

Uhh! Nice! Wollt ihr wissen, was mit der Version 4.2.0 von #Mastodon eingeführt werden wird? Das könnt ihr hier nachlesen: https://pad.svenbrier.eu/bYjy84fzS8uP0vcJtJAVQQ

Der GitHub-Link funktioniert leider nicht mehr.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0beta1

#FediAdmin #Beta

🔊 Announcement 🔊

Future notices will feature both #FediBlock and #InstanceBlock hashtags, before eventually migrating to the latter later next year.

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

Is there an easy way to customize the appearance (aka Skin/Theme) of the #Mastodon Webinterface on an instance-level?

I can add custom CSS; but I don’t know (or want to try out) *all* the CSS classes for items I'd like to change. It's mostly color changes (purple to another color) – but there are buttons, text, links, hashtags etc...

Search and replace for the HEX value and then add the *whole CSS* to the custom field seems a bit overkill…

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin