This #mastodon #instance, metroholografix.com has been running for about 2 weeks.

Thanks to 2 relays, and a post that got boosted 520 times in 5 days, my server has federated with over 5,500 other instances!

I'm rather impressed! Thank you to everyone who #boosted!

By contrast, .social has about 80,000 connections.

You can see how many instances your instance is federated with by visiting your instance URL with this pasted at the end: /api/v1/instance/peers

#fediAdmin #mastoAdmin

#Mastoadmin #fediadmin

Sometime at the beginning of December, all of a sudden, traffic to and from my little single-user instance dropped to nil. The Federated Timeline, which used to fly by much too quickly, now barely moves at all.

I've checked my relays - both of them state they're running fine and no filtering to me or my instance.

I've kept my code up to date - no security issues with my instance that I am aware of.

So I need to ask the questions:
1) Is the badplace thing back?
2) Have my disagreements in discussions with other admins over whether moderation should be global or local landed me on some other "naughty list" I am unaware of? If so, what's this one called?
3) Has the way smaller instances interact with the greater Fediverse changed in some way I missed?

Thanks in advance for any light you all may be able to shed on this issue.

Concerning our stance on threads.net, we had a "wait and see" approach until now at datasci.social: community.datasci.social/blog/…

However, their moderation policies have become clearly inadequate and incompatible: wired.com/story/meta-immigrati…

Therefore, we plan to suspend threads.net from Jan 20th. #serverinfo #mastoadmin #meta

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'

Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.

^{Kate Knibbs (WIRED)}

Dear god people, look at what Meta is now saying:

"We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation"

...look at it. This is 1930s stuff 😞

If you haven't defederated Meta/Threads yet, now is absolutely the perfect time to do so.

#Threads #Meta #Fediverse #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

Today Zuckerberg and Meta/Facebook removed most of the restrictions on hatred and bigotry that previously existed. Admins that haven't yet done so may want to defederate threads.net as it is only going to get more toxic and hateful from now on.

This is how to defederate servers on Mastodon:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-defederate-fe…

Meta has also pledged to work with Trump for "free speech", and as part of this is moving its entire content moderation department to Texas.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #FediBlock

How to block (defederate) a server on Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

Hey adventurers!

Get ready for a thread(s).

With all the recent heat about Meta and seeing that the company decided to fully take advantage of a pretty much fascist political party to leverage their own needs, after a peaceful discussion the staff at The Gamer's Tavern decided to de-federate from Threads.net effective immediately.

1/ 🧵

#Threads #Meta #TheGamersTavern #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

If you have technical skills, you can install a tool on your server called Hypebot, which boosts trending posts from other servers:

🌱 codeberg.org/tante/hypebot

This lets even the smallest servers see the latest trending topics.

You can set the bot to boost trends from particular remote servers.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

hypebot

Mastodon bot that boosts trending posts from other instances into your timeline

^Codeberg.org

@cragsand @elk I think they are aware. 😅
I've been sending my ideas under issue discussions and pretty sure that couple of things we have today were inspired by other UIs like Elk and Mastodon Bird UI.

But things need to be built to core. The SCSS side of it needs major rework. I hope they find someone who is eager to take the task.

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

There's now New Year's confetti in place of the #LetItSnow effect on my server, just for this moment.

Source: github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mas…
Demo (only for the next 20 minutes): mementomori.social

#OpenSource #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #NewYear #NewYear2025

Headsup to Mastodon instance admins out there: tomorrow (about 12 hours from now) I will be deploying a small automated profile as part of my bachelor's thesis on social network analysis (nerdy graph theory stuff).

I'd like to briefly explain what it does via this small thread 🧵 and offer a more detailed explanation over at livia.sichtig.com 🌐. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. (1/5)

#mastoadmin #mastodon

When I first started my server in 2022 I was worried I will be shouting in a void, because it sounded quite tricky to get seen in the Fediverse. But I learned very soon even a tiniest instance can be seen in the vast Fediverse just like a website can be indexed to Google after a while.

Today my small Finnish server knows 31137 domains which is pretty much the entire known Fediverse, give or take a few servers gone offline. Mementomori.social has 184 active monthly users (328 users in total), but we are very well federated. How? Simply by being very active and using relays.

Public statistics in JSON format: mementomori.social/api/v1/inst… (you can get the stats of any instance by adding after the main URL: /api/v1/instance)

#MementoMoriSocial #MastoAdmin

@ErikUden Just add the JavaScript bit linked and recompile server assets. Needs server you can make modifications to, cannot be done to Mastohost and equivalent.

#MastoAdmin #LetItSnow

@renchap Ah yes. So therefore:

1) apps that do this are doing it wrong
2) can't it be done server side?

Just noticed there's a pitch for this, too: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

#MastoAdmin

Client option to load content directly from remote instances and the web · Issue #21571 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch I propose a top level preference, or perhaps a preference category, that would allow the client to fetch data from remote instances when relevant. Every client feature that shows conceptually...

^GitHub

Mona for iPhone has this feature "load remotely" that can be added as an icon to the post. I use it a lot, because I can see all the likes, shares and replies that there are supposed to be. In my browser I use a Chrome extension called Substitoot.

I'm wondering why can't this be the new default? There's probably a huge technical reason, but because it works seamlessly in some apps and extension, why can't it be reality in the core?

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

What I'd like to see in the Fediverse or Mastodon built-in is an user controlled feed like FediAlgo. Chronological feed is nice, but I find myself using the Explore feature a lot and wanting more.

Current ongoing discussions:
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

#Fediverse #Algorithm #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Customizable Feed System Inspired by Bluesky · Issue #33098 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Implementation Of A Customizable Feed Feature Similar To The One Currently Offered By Bluesky. Key Features to Consider: User-Created Feeds: Allow users to create and customize their own feed...

^GitHub

Thank you to @rolle for creating the lovely snow effect visible on the web interface for this instance

If another #MastoAdmin on glitch or chuckya wants to add this, you'll want to copy the extra code here into app/javascript/flavors/glitch/common.js followed by precompiling and reloading the mastodon-web service

mastodon/app/javascript/mastodon/common.js at 9bf1563af50842a5f61b34b7cc095fb746e5d15b · ronilaukkarinen/mastodon

Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - ronilaukkarinen/mastodon

^GitHub

Looking great! ❄️

#MastoAdmin #LetItSnow

Sometimes I have a missing avatar from a person in my feed.
Not someone I follow, but rather from someone a person I follow have boosted.

When this happens, I can go to the web interface and paste "example.com/@theusername" in the search box, and my instance will fetch the missing avatar.

It seems Mastodon could do a better job here at retrying to fetch missing avatars.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Let it snow! ❄️

I have added snow to my instance during the winter holidays. It's a tiny JS canvas and fades out on scroll down. The snow is also respecting the system accessibility settings, it won't be there if you prefer reduced motion.

Here's the source code for server admins: github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mas…
See the snow yourself: mementomori.social

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #JavaScript #Coding #Programming #Snow #Winter #LetItSnow #MementomoriSocial

🌟2️⃣🌟 mountains.social 🌟2️⃣🌟

Today marks the 2nd anniversary of mountains.social. 731 days ago I opened the instance for registration.

As a fan of mountain huts, I thought we celebrate with a hut at an elevation of 2'731 meters: the Segantini hut in Graubünden, Switzerland.

We can also celebrate with the 2'731 meters high Sunnig Berg (second picture at the left) in the Urner Alps, Switzerland.

Or what about the 2'731 meters high Thousand Lake Mountain in Wayne County, Utah, USA.

Where-ever you are though, regardless of elevation, thanks for being here!

#MountainHuts #Mountains #Segantini #MountainsAdmin #Anniversary #MastoAdmin #Hiking #Mountaineering #Climbing #Bouldering

I love an all green status page.

status.shumai.xyz

#mastodon #mastoadmin

Shumai status

Welcome to Shumai status page for real-time and historical data on system performance.

^{status.shumai.xyz}

Some interesting insights from the 2024 @iftas Fediverse Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report.

- most communities operate on donations
- very few moderators receiving compensation
- roughly 1 moderator for every 1,200 active accounts
- only 16% of communities have 24–hour moderator coverage
- nearly 1/2 of moderator teams lack formal guidance
- 1 in 5 moderators report experiencing trauma or burnout this year

about.iftas.org/2024/12/17/the…

#fediverse #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #IFTAS #TrustAndSafety

The 2024 IFTAS Needs Assessment Report is Here!

We are pleased to to announce the release of the 2024 Fediverse Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report. This annual report is a cornerstone of our mission to support the decentralised social we…

^IFTAS

Alright, after a big struggle session I at the very least have fiera.social back online, but can anyone tell me why all of the style elements are missing and how I might fix it?

#mastoadmin