Unless you #selfhost your own #mastodon instance, or you're a #mastoAdmin, you have likely taken #fullTextSearch for granted.

Behind search for masto is a resource-hungry #java application called #elasticSearch. Sure you might be able to get Masto to run on a #raspberrypi4, but you won't be running elastic search with it.

Having recently moved my instance to a much more powerful system, I now run ES, and WOW what a difference being able to search post makes! Soooo many times I wanted to reference a toot that had scrolled by but had no way of finding it. Now I do!

Even though I've put some serious resource limits on ES, it's bar none the most resource intensive service running (out of around 25).

Please consider sending a few bucks to the #MastodonAdmin of your instance. Better yet, if you can afford it, sign up for a monthly donation. They need it.

After 9 months, I FINALLY follow enough people to have a "decent" Trending page with 6-7 posts!😅

It sucks that single user instances have to deal with this issue, but it's unfortunately how Mastodon decided to build the feature. It does leave me wondering though, if it could be changed to federate "Favorites" or, if it's too heavy on the servers, make it an option to turn on or off as wanted?

I don't know if it's possible, but I just know the Trending feature on single-user instances are almost completely useless most of the time.😩

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

My #SelfHosted Mastodon instance has processed 129,277,027 #SideKiq jobs since November 20, 2022. 1.77 million failed.

How many upgrades have we done since Nov 2022?

I am just thankful I haven't bricked my Mastodon instance, esp when we have to upgrade prerequisites.
🤓

Curious, where does your instance stand in SideKiq Jobs and how long.
#MastoAdmin

There's a little-known setting on Mastodon called "limited federation mode". In this mode, there is no federation except with instances that the admin has specifically named on an allowlist. This is a lot better for user safety, and may suit some instances.

- If you're on managed hosting, you can ask your hosting provider to switch it on.

- If you're maintaining Mastodon yourself manually, docs are at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#federation

More info at https://fedi.tips/creating-an-isolated-server

#MastoAdmin

Creating an isolated Mastodon server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

I came across this interesting bit about multiple Mastodon-instances on a single server, howbeit, it's from 2018 and there have been a lot of changes since then.

The author wanted to run two instances off the same base code, different databases, re-using as much existing infrastructure as it could, essentially, and appears to have done so.

I don't know why anyone, other than wanting to migrate their instance to a new one, would do this, but here it is. #MastoAdmin

https://nfgworld.com/multiple-mastodon-instances-on-a-single-server/

Multiple Mastodon Instances on a Single Server

Back when I still ran a Mastodon server, I had a brief need to run two of them on one server. With Gargron's help, I worked out how.

^NFGworld

Quick question.

Has anyone connected to @Mastodon been working to switch from Redis since they went closed source? What's going to be involved in moving to a drop in replacement?

#MastodonCommunity
#MastoAdmin

What is the most widely used and actively maintained tool to feed #RSS into #Mastodon accounts?

I currently use @mastofeed which is really great when it works, but if it doesn't it is somewhat of a black box, so I would prefer to self-host something simple that can create similar toots.

I know there is https://github.com/aserper/masto-rss by @0xamit - do you actively maintain it?

#MastoAdmin

GitHub - aserper/masto-rss: A Mastodon bot that posts RSS updates to a Mastodon account

A Mastodon bot that posts RSS updates to a Mastodon account - aserper/masto-rss

^GitHub

ℹ️ wiki mountains.social ℹ️

Today I have revamped and rewritten most of the wiki pages of mountains.social. This was on my list for a long time.

Please have a look at it, there might be one or two things you didn't know yet.

For the ones interested, I migrated the wiki from Wiki.js to Grav. A world of difference.

https://wiki.mountains.social/

I hope you like it!

#MountainsSocialMastoAdmin #MastoAdmin

Started to write a blog post about metalhead.club t-shirts and quickly realized that I don't have the energy to find proper words right now 😅.

My plan is to describe what considerations I made and which parts I use for my t-shirt "business". So others feel inspired and might sell instance merch, too! 😁

I think t-shirts are a great advertising space for Fediverse instances. 👌

#tshirts #fediverse #Mastodon #instances #mastoadmin #blog

Huh. Is the domain validation done on a user's home instance and the validation info is sent to each remote instance? Or is it done on each remote instance that knows of the user? It kind of seems like it is the latter.

I'm not sure if #gotosocial does domain validation since it doesn't show anything on my profile here on my home instance.

#mastodon #mastoadmin

@oranki

It is really strange these nginx blocks are not in the official docs. Why?

It doesn't work with that simple location block example you have. Any idea on what to add in the location block?

Does @renchap have any information about this?

@nicd @harald

#MastoAdmin

Installing the FediBuzz relay | Jeff Sikes

https://box464.com/posts/fediverse-relays/

#fediverse #mastoadmin #fedibuzz

Installing the FediBuzz relay

Let’s take a look a fediverse relays, and in particular, FediBuzz. We’ll go over the basics of how relays work, and then dive into a fresh install on Ubuntu.

^{Jeff Sikes}

I've updated both https://phanpy.dmv.community and https://elk.dmv.community to their latest commits.

For Elk, this means the ability to create threads.

#elk #phanpy #mastoadmin

Threads has already blocked Mastodon instances since 21 Mar 2024 around 3 month after joining the Fediverse.

https://help.instagram.com/914046486923176

#mastoadmin #threads

HIGHLY recommend Fediblock for user '@MKULTRADiamond@bae.st' as they're tagging random users and spamming porn with no CW. Receipts attached in the screenshot.

Edit: The whole instance is Freeze Peach. Toss it in the trash.

#Fediblock #Fediverse #Fedi #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

Fun fact about masto.nyc infrastructure:

I live in a 1br apt but the bedroom is... Disproportionally sized, so there's a compressed wall to separate it into a tiny shared office. This is the cable that supports all of our traffic! Scary, eh? 👻

I certainly thought so when I was cleaning around it today. One day we'll get to the cloud 🥲

#mastoadmin #selfhosting

Does the greyed out account in /admin/accounts?origin=local mean that the user account has been deleted by the user? I received a message outside Mastodon from an user who says she can't login and now noticed this. I can't access her user information or posts or profile, all throw the infamous Mastodon error page without further info. There is this strange error in console.

Can something cause user account to be removed/corrupted etc.? This is weird.

Opened an issue just in case: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29807

#MastoAdmin

ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `downcase' for nil:NilClass) · Issue #29807 · mastodon/mastodon

Steps to reproduce the problem I'm not sure if it can reproduced. Expected behaviour The user should work. Actual behaviour Something wrong with the user. Detailed description An user from my insta...

^GitHub

Here's a 75 line bash script that will fetch the accounts you're following and output how long it's been since they posted.

https://gist.github.com/lgrn/0fe824401dec432b985691c89028c447

Use like:

./follower_posts.sh -u account@instance.tld

No tokens are required, but it can't check private accounts for obvious reasons.

#mastoadmin

follower_posts.sh

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

^Gist

@cadusilva Sadly it didn't stop the "cache file has has too long header" errors that happen in every two hours. Ran ls -lr to that dir under /var/cache/nginx and it's 27k. It seems it defaults to 4k if not set so what I did is put it back on and added these:

proxy_buffers 4 128k;
proxy_buffer_size 128k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size 128k;

Let's see if it helps.

#MastoAdmin

Sadly this didn't seem to cut it. I still get randomly:

cache file "/var/cache/nginx/4/53/ad751e870e1c4a778ededb7d276ae534" has too long header

Any tips?

#MastoAdmin #Servers #SysOp

I've been monitoring my Mastodon instance with BetterStack and set up new and more precise alerts lately. Got continously an alert like this:

proxy_buffer_size 4096 is not enough for cache key, it should be increased to at least 5120

I did not have proxy_buffers and related settings set up at all.

This blog post helped me in this regard: https://bavatuesdays.com/some-initial-mastodon-instance-tweaking/

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon