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Don't fear the bots, support has arrived! Watch our seasoned #MastoAdmin showing the ropes to the new guys!
We’re happy to announce that Mastodon 4.5 is now ready for prime time! Quote posts, async fetching of replies, server timeline visibility settings, more moderation tools, and lots and lots of other tweaks and improvements.
Announcement on our blog: blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/…
Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…
Release v4.5.0 · mastodon/mastodon
For a user-focused highlight of these changes, see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/ For changes of particular interest to application developers, see https://blog.joinmastodon.or...GitHub
Spammers have been programmatically creating accounts on Mastodon instances for years. Sometimes they post once and never again, sometimes they post on a schedule. Sometimes they never post, like a waiting botnet.
As Mastodon's anti-spam solutions are effectively nonexistent, most instances in our network require manual approval of new accounts. Up until recently, it was easy to spot a spammer; their join reasons were generic.
ChatGPT spammers have now arrived.
I have two Mastodon instances that CONSTANTLY show up in my tootctl account cull as "EndlessredirectError": m.techsocial.site and social.jvan.be. Every single week. Any other admins know what's up with that? Are these dead sites? Troll sites? Technical errors? Why do they keep ending up back in my accounts list every week? The sites don't resolve in my browser, and adding them to my defederation doesn't seem to cause any accounts to be removed.
After another spam wave, we're so grateful for @iftas
Their quick action prevented a repeat of the spam wave earlier in the year and things seem to be under control.
Thankfully, our complex signup process held up and the spam accounts involved in this attack weren't able to set-up on our instance! 💪
You can support IFTAS and the work they do to prevent & slow attacks like this here: about.iftas.org/donate/
#Spam #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Moderation
Support IFTAS
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We just released Mastodon 4.2.13 and 4.1.20. They contain a few bug fixes, a security fix (high severity, only impacting Ruby <= 3.2) and a critical security in a dependency is you use SAML authentication (CVE-2024-45409).
Release notes and upgrade instructions are available on our GitHub Releases page: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…
Releases · mastodon/mastodon
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - mastodon/mastodonGitHub
codeberg.org/Fedimins/mastodon…
mastodon-maintenance-tasks
Maintenance tasks for the Mastodon software to clean up the database and save memory.Codeberg.org
I'd been wondering for a while why my Digital Ocean bill kept creeping up despite not deploying new stuff. I noticed I was using way more storage in Spaces than expected, even though I'd moved Peertube to Wasabi. Maybe I'd left some videos behind?
Uh, no. I had no idea that Mastodon didn't do media cache clearing on its own until last week. That was added to the docs in 2020 (github.com/mastodon/documentat…) and I spun up this server in 2019.
1.6 TB. Took 4 days to clear 4 years of cache.
feat: add a section on periodic cleanup tasks (#816) · mastodon/documentation@4617ea9
* feat: add a section on periodic cleanup tasks I asked in Discord today about which `tootctl` tasks are good to run on a regular basis (as there are a lot of cleanup jobs). It seems that `media...GitHub
If you run a Mastodon server, especially if it's small and only lightly moderated, I would STRONGLY suggest enabling 'Approval required for sign up'. It means that your server is MUCH less likely to become the next source of spam in this wave we're seeing.
yes.
also hi brodie this is like the 3rd time we're (probably) involved in a video of yours again since you're gonna be making a video on this #fediblock#fediblockmeta#fediadmins#fediadmin#mastoadmin#mastoadmins#spam
Goodness me! The ActivityPub network is chatty.
In the last 6 hours, I've received 371 different messages to my single-user inbox.
Most of which seem to be from servers announcing users have been deleted. They're not users or servers I've seen before.
Is this normal?
I've added a feature request to #Mastodon to display geotags.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
Display embedded GeoTags · Issue #29002 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch When an ActivityPub post contains geolocation metadata, that location should be displayed in the user interface. For example, the account @edent_location@location.edent.tel creates AP posts i...GitHub
New Mastodon Bugfix Release is available. ✨ v4.1.5 ✨
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…
We're now starting to update all customer instances.
Release v4.1.5 · mastodon/mastodon
⚠️ We recently released critical security updates, so if you are still using 4.1.2 or below, 4.0.4 or below, or 3.5.8 or below, please update as soon as possible (see the release notes for v4.1.4)....GitHub
:NoMeta: #MetaBlock :NoMeta:
For users, mods, admins: Importable #blocklist of #Meta domains: drive.google.com/file/d/12pZEz…
Sources:
1. gitea.whitespashe.uk/Whitespas…
2. datakra.sh/assets/lizard.txt
For #Fediverse server admins: #iptables commands to block inbound (loads of Threads users) & outbound traffic (like data mining) from Meta's IP addresses: drive.google.com/file/d/1lipuA…
Sources:
1. ipinfo.io/AS32934
2. bgp.he.net/AS32934#_prefixes
3. burrow.rabbits-at.work/media/2…
I think I found the domain name of #Threads, #Meta's new #Fedi-enabled service, also codenamed #Project92, #P92, and #Barcelona.
URL: threads.net
IPv4: 157.240.22.63
IPv6: 2a03:2880:f231:c5:face:b00c:0:43fe (note "face:b00c")
Looking up threads.net returns #Instagram's logo, the title "Barcelona" and "this page isn't available" (probably because it's not open yet).
I'd recommend every #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin in the #FediPact to #FediBlock them before they go live on the #Fediverse!
We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (vantaa.black/pact)
There is over a decade of precedent that Facebook will not have users' best interests as their guiding principle but rather profit margins, if it joins the Fediverse.
We at tech.lgbt have long held the belief that corporation owned instances are a threat to the core of the Fediverse: freedom for users to be themselves and to be a part of their communities. The 2010s saw the loss of online freedom when the majority of the Web was consolidated into a few destinations, and Facebook entering here could lead us back to centralization. Furthermore, NDAs for server admins will constrain our sovereignty online by binding us legally from disrupting their business.
We are not products. We are people, and we do not welcome Facebook in this space.
#meta #FediPact #facebook #project92 #mastodon #fediverse #FediBlockMeta #FediAdmin #p92 #MastoAdmin
By the way, We have joined hundreds of admins and mods across the fediverse in pledging to block Facebook/Meta-owned servers (and have already blocked a couple likely domains): fedipact.online/
Facebook's right-wing bias, lack of moderation, and extremely successful attempt to essentially replace the web in vast portions of the world have been disastrous for the Internet and society in general. I have also seen several cycles of giant corporations running services using open protocols and, once they've captured a big enough userbase, switching to a proprietary system and then killing it off whenever they feel like it.
A better Internet is possible—but not funded by ads and run for profit by a single giant evil corporation.
I run a single-user personal Mastodon instance. Using relays help fill out what I can see and interact with.
Unfortunately public relays don't seem to live long. I just checked my relay list, and a bunch of ones I added have disappeared from the internet. Also, the Mastodon admin relays page doesn't show if a relay is actually working.
I found relaylist.com/ which has a list of alive relays.
Are there any semi-private moderated relays that people can recommend?
Add optional hCaptcha support by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #25019 · mastodon/mastodon
Add optional hCaptcha support based on glitch-soc#1665 and glitch-soc#1667, largely rewriting prior work at glitch-soc#1323 Whenever the environment variables HCAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY and HCAPTCHA_SITE_...GitHub
bassam.social is full of #queerphobic users which also don't mind #harassing me and other users.
A few examples:
- bassam.social/@ahm7d25
- bassam.social/@fearless
- bassam.social/notice/AW11Ee8ma…
- bassam.social/notice/AW0zhmGtE…
- bassam.social/notice/AW0zTY0PU…
It is already blocked on mstdn.social and masto.ai
Please boost this to spread awareness! ❤️ 
related to mstdn.social/@MagicLike/110407…
#FollowerPower #FuckQueerphobia
#Queerphobia
#Harassment
#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #MastoMod #FediMod
Running tootctl accounts cull on 400k accounts takes around 8 hours.
Remove remote accounts that no longer exist. Queries every single remote account in the database to determine if it still exists on the origin server, and if it doesn’t, then remove it from the database. Accounts that have had confirmed activity within the last week are excluded from the checks, in case the server is just down.
Today ZOOM call W3C’s Social Web Incubator Community Group
The Future of ActivityPub Standardization and Related Subjects
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 10-11am pacific daylight savings time.
Between #Mastodonau & #Mastodonlol, it's a good thing #Mastodon gGmbH has put an end to using Mastodon in new domain names without explicit licensing.
The tech media will be having a field day with this soon
I wonder how many other significant instances are ran by people with personality trait issues &their users &their content is at the whims of unreasonable people, not suited for the responsibilities and sensibilities required.
#MastoAdmin
Added some new Mastodon monitoring infrastructure for discuss.systems.
Sure, every good #MastoAdmin has a cool Grafana dashboard, but we're going a bit more old school here...
solid thread of resources (via @maloki) for anybody who's thinking about setting up their own instance and doesn't want to spend their first week playing nazi whack-a-mole: rage.love/@maloki/109298808353…
maloki 🍍 (@maloki@rage.love)
Has anyone made a fresh post with the recommended basic block list if you set up a new instance that I can boost!?Rage.love