Justin Thomas 🛡 · @justin
309 followers · 607 posts · Server ser.endipito.us

Switching from Apache to Varnish has definitely made a big difference in performance for my Serendipitous server. Mastodon is pretty noisy and a simple thing like changing my profile summary (which generates 700+ external connections pretty much instantly) was enough to overwhelm the Apache reverse proxy server. Varnish (using Hitch for TLS) handles it with aplomb.

#varnish #mastoadmins

Last updated 1 year ago

sfunk1x · @sfunk1x
53 followers · 1323 posts · Server tusk.sfunk1x.com

jamie.moe/post/113630

So what is the best approach to dealing with child porn and other illegal content in the , ? I don't think the answer is to "not ".

#fediverse #mastoadmins #selfhost

Last updated 1 year ago

Mick 🇨🇦 · @mick
259 followers · 502 posts · Server cosocial.ca

A couple of questions for the Mastodon admins out there:

- what techniques do you use to load-test an instance?

- when you’ve made major changes to an instance (e.g. move to a new server) what sort of tests do you do before re-opening to the world?

#mastoadmin #mastoadmins #mastodon

Last updated 1 year ago

sfunk1x · @sfunk1x
53 followers · 1323 posts · Server tusk.sfunk1x.com

! Is there anyone running ? If so, what's your experience? How about GPU acceleration?

#mastoadmins #libretranslate

Last updated 1 year ago

DarkRat · @darkrat
138 followers · 697 posts · Server chaosfurs.social

New instance monitoring graph.

Storage delta, showing the available storage vs the storage 24h ago.
Shows a nice red graph if the storage trends downward during more activity in the and green again during slower days.

#fediverse #mastoadmins

Last updated 1 year ago

HELLIONS is now blocking the chatGPT scraping bot.. (and your instance should too!)

: append public/robots.txt with:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

👉 mastodon.social/@mmitchell_ai/

h/t @mmitchel_ai and @paul for the heads-up 👍

#mastoadmins

Last updated 1 year ago

Loïc ⏚ · @hl0dwig
92 followers · 1415 posts · Server g33ks.coffee

pour les aventuriers, la première bêta de la version v4.2 tant attendue de Mastodon est disponible : github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r 🤓

autant vous dire qu'on va passer notre tour chez les g33ks, parce qu'au vu du changelog infini, des nouvelles versions des dépendances externes requises, et autres pré-requis pour la mise à jour... on va patiemment attendre une version stable 😌

hashtag tout vient à point à qui sait attendre 🐢

#mastoadmins

Last updated 1 year ago

Loïc ⏚ · @hl0dwig
92 followers · 1410 posts · Server g33ks.coffee

I guess @aral , @Curator, @Barmaid and other would find it interesting to know that a techbro has decided to collect data on the fediverse and create, out of nowhere a new public listing of people on the fediverse, without any opt-out options btw 😅

>> mnemo.social/
>> @dt

source: mastodon.top/@dt/1108458535542

reported to @thomas_virtubox ⚠️

:BoostOK: spread it out loud, this service has to be stopped now until our data are erased and an opt-in logic is implemented ❗

[EDIT1]: as spotted by @admin the service seems to be offline now! To be continued...

[EDIT2]: @dt has apologised and has put its service down until further adaptation to respect the privacy of people >> g33ks.coffee/@dt@mastodon.top/ 👌

#mastoadmins

Last updated 1 year ago

Loïc ⏚ · @hl0dwig
92 followers · 1410 posts · Server g33ks.coffee

Salut @dt 👋

et mentions à tous les et ⚠️ poke @tiesselune, @tournesol, @coco et vos potes !

Je découvre à l'instant l'outil mnemo.social/ que tu as créé @dt disponible à tous, sur lequel je retrouve mon compte personnel 😬

Or, il ne me semble pas avoir donné un accord explicite pour pouvoir être listé sur ton service et je doute fortement que l'ensemble des personnes de mon instance aient elles aussi explicitement donné un tel accord 🤔

De plus, ta page est assez obscure car elle ne donne aucun lien pour comprendre comment fonctionne l'outil, comment faire pour s'extraire de ton listing, l'usage que tu comptes en faire etc... ⚠️

La bonne pratique il me semble en terme de gestion des données de chacun et à minima de recueillir l'accord des personnes ! Or, ce n'est pas parce que nous publions des informations publiquement sur notre serveur qu'on donne le droit à n'importe qui d'en faire n'importe quel usage, de surcroît d'en faire un listing de personnes !!! 😅

Sur notre propre serveur les personnes peuvent choisir d'apparaître ou non dans l'annuaire, d'être trouvable ou non, alors ce n'est pas pour se retrouver sur un autre annuaire public sur lequel nous n'avons pas la main 👎

Alors :

1️⃣ dans un premier temps je te demanderais de bien vouloir exclure le domaine g33ks.coffee de ton outil s'il te plaît
2️⃣ et dans un second temps je te suggère de changer la façon de récolter tes données et d'offrir la possibilité aux gens de s'inscrire, et non l'inverse

Il ne fait aucun doute que les administrateurs des autres instances vont rapidement se tourner vers toi pour faire des demandes similaires, ainsi, si tu n'es pas en capacité de réaliser rapidement le premier 1️⃣ point, et ce de façon rapide & systématique, face à la pluie de demandes qui pourrait arriver, je te suggère de couper ton service dès maintenant ❗

#admins #mastoadmins #fediadmins

Last updated 1 year ago

sfunk1x · @sfunk1x
54 followers · 1268 posts · Server tusk.sfunk1x.com
Marcus Noble · @Marcus
463 followers · 1247 posts · Server k8s.social

Any using Dragonfly with Mastodon instead of Redis?

#mastoadmin #mastoadmins #redis #dragonflydb

Last updated 1 year ago

Mx Autumn :blobcatpumpkin: · @carbontwelve
672 followers · 3647 posts · Server notacult.social

I'm going to be migrating Mastodon to another server so I need to move the 162GB of files within the system/cache folder or will they be rebuilt as needed?

#mastoadmins

Last updated 1 year ago

Maschinenraum · @maschinenraum
80 followers · 208 posts · Server pfalz.social

Is anybody else experiencing Locks in FollowRecommendationsScheduler and similar in case a backup is running at the same time?
It seems (found some evidence on the net, but no solutions) that REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW and pg_dump running in parallel come to a situation to lock each other. I experienced this a number of times now and the monitoring is nagging once again - both processes running since some 85 minutes now, normal under 5…

#mastoadmins #PostgreSQL

Last updated 1 year ago

Cliff · @cliffwade
1057 followers · 6155 posts · Server allthingstech.social

Starting to seem random conversations posted with regards to some instances that have either already defederated from or are thinking of defederating from firefish.social due to some things the lead developer has stated at some point that people don't agree with.

If anyone has information about this, and has solid proof of what's going on, I'd appreciate some insight and some thoughts on what other admins will be doing with regards to this.

#mastoadmin #mastoadmins #firefish

Last updated 1 year ago

DarkRat · @darkrat
130 followers · 628 posts · Server chaosfurs.social

*shovels more GB into the media cache fire*

#mastoadmins

Last updated 1 year ago

Stefan Bohacek · @stefan
1316 followers · 2921 posts · Server stefanbohacek.online
DarkRat · @darkrat
125 followers · 601 posts · Server chaosfurs.social

noticable CPU and traffic increase in the last couple hours

#mastoadmins

Last updated 1 year ago

DarkRat · @darkrat
125 followers · 600 posts · Server chaosfurs.social

As a , it's interesting that you can see the increase of fediverse users by watching load and traffic of an instance. Even for a small one

#mastoadmins

Last updated 1 year ago

ffffennek · @fennek
67 followers · 800 posts · Server cyberplace.social

I expect the impact of Elon rebranding twitter to X to top everything.
brace yourselfs.

A lot of those who could block their way into believing it was not a hell hole and of those thinking they absolutely needed that platform for business will be triggered to leave by just this.

#mastoadmins

Last updated 1 year ago

Andrés Monroy-Hernández · @andresmh
2474 followers · 5085 posts · Server hci.social

: what does it mean when the Reported Content section of a report is empty? Does that mean that the offender's server has already removed it?

#mastoadmins

Last updated 1 year ago