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All questions optional. Use this link:

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#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #FediMods #MastoMods #Moderation

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Content warning: Fediblock: literal psychopath. This is serious. Reveal/hide

Mastodon server admins or other experts: What could potentially cause another instance to get a 401 error when attempting to POST to my instance's inbox?

The other instance was offline for a while, and I had subsequently "Purged" it using the option in the "Moderation/Federation" admin screen to try and correct this problem. It didn't work. The other instance seems to be federating normally with other instances -- just not mine.

Any ideas?

#mastoadmin

Australia plans to introduce a minimum age for social media use, requiring parental consent for anyone under 16.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/australia-plans-minimum-age-social-media-use-rcna170357

As more jurisdictions follow suit, Mastodon still isn’t equipped to manage these age restrictions and it doesn't look like it's even on their radar.

#Mastodon #mastoadmin

Australia plans minimum age for social media use, angering digital rights advocates

Australia plans to set a minimum age limit for children to use social media citing concerns about mental and physical health, drawing a backlash from digital rights advocates.

^{Reuters (NBC News)}

Our August engineering blog post is out - read about the first beta of 4.3, what's coming next, and what the community has been sharing!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/09/trunk-tidbits-august-2024/

#mastodev #mastoadmin

wieder eine neue Spamwelle😐

another new wave of spam😐

#mastoadmin #spam

Hey, Mastodon devs ❤️

This would be nice don't you think?

#MastoAdmin #Fediverse

Hey #MastoAdmin, can you take/boost this quick poll?

Do you regularly run ‘tootctl statuses remove’ as a maintenance activity on your Mastodon server?

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#statuses-remove

• Yes (37%, 3 votes)
• No (62%, 5 votes)

I've just released FediFetcher 7.1.7.

This version adds an instance-blocklist option, so you can completely block FediFetcher from even attempting to connect to bad instance.

It also contains some performance improvements, so definitely worth getting this one.

Full changelog and update instructions are on the release page:

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/releases/tag/v7.1.7

#FediFetcher #MastoAdmin #SingleUserInstance

Release v7.1.7 · nanos/FediFetcher

The headline new feature in v7.1.7 of FediFetcher is that we now support a custom instance blocklist. This is controlled through the instance-blocklist configuration option, which is an optional co...

^GitHub

If you're running a new Fedi server without many connections to the rest of the Fediverse, it may seem a bit quiet and it can take time to build up connections.

However, there are many ways for server admins to build up connections quickly and fill their server with new content:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/using-relays-to-quickly-expand-a-servers-view-of-the-fediverse

(Most of these options don't require technical knowledge, though a couple do.)

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

Using relays, groups, directories and scripts to quickly expand a server’s view of the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

For a moment, imagining if #Mastodon had released literally ANY new & useful admin/moderation tools whatsoever in the past several years....

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

Understanding Discourse Trust Levels

The user trust system is a fundamental cornerstone of Discourse. Trust levels are a way of… * Sandboxing new users in your community so that they cannot accidentally hurt themselves, or other users while they are learning what to do.

^{Jeff Atwood (Discourse)}

• Yes (66%, 4 votes)
• No (33%, 2 votes)

We are considering dropping support for using Azure Blob as a media storage in Mastodon 4.4, as the official Ruby Azure SDK has been abandoned. If you are currently using this feature, please check this discussion: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/31617

#mastoadmin

Incoming Azure storage driver deprecation · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #31617

We are strongly considering deprecating the support for Azure Blob storage as a media backend in Mastodon 4.3 (currently targeted for release in September), and removing it entirely in Mastodon 4.4...

^GitHub

A minor update to Mastodon Bird UI. In 2.0.0rc47 (for Mastodon 4.3.0-beta.1) the compose form content warning box is now consistent with the actual content warning.

https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui/releases/tag/2.0.0rc47

#MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #CSS #UI #WebDev #OpenSource #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

You can customise your Mastodon server's appearance fairly easily using the Custom CSS feature, which can be accessed entirely within the Mastodon web interface:

1. Log into your server’s website with the admin account
2. Go to Preferences > Administration > Server Settings
3. Click Appearance tab, go to the Custom CSS section
4. Add the CSS code you want in the box, then click Save Changes

Lots more info about this at https://fedi.tips/customising-your-mastodon-servers-appearance

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #CSS #Mastodon

Customising your Mastodon server’s appearance with CSS | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

The admin side of Mastodon finally got the anticipated facelift in 4.3.0-beta. I like the more polished look.

#MastoAdmin #MastodonBeta #Mastodon

The old Mastodon content warnings and filtered out posts in the left, the new ones on the right. I like consistency and simplicity.

Content warnings should not jump in your eyes or take too much space. Their job is to hide sensitive content. I kinda liked I could hide the whole block previously and not even see the user, but this will suffice.

Available in Mastodon Bird UI 2.0.0rc44-45.
https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui/releases

#MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #MastoAdmin

Mastodon Bird UI 2.0.0rc44 (pre-release) is now released!

No further changes to the stable version 1.8.5 until 4.3.0.

The stable version supports Mastodon up to 4.2.5 and nightly up to Mastodon 4.3.0-beta.1.

Changes (pre-release):

* Support for v4.3.0-beta.1
* Support for new content warnings presented in v4.3.0-beta.1 (thanks @shleeable!), Fixes #128

The pre-release 2.0.0rc has 73 improvements so far. Full changelog available here: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui/releases

Live demo (single column layout only): https://mementomori.social

Source code and installation instructions: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui

#MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #CSS #UI #WebDev #OpenSource #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Hosted mastodon instances need more admin tools to control s3 bucket sizes.

#mastoadmin

See the federation of our Mastodon Instance burningboard.net in real time: https://watch.burningboard.net/

This is possible by the great work of @thomas

#fediwatch #mastodon #federation #mastoadmin

We just released Mastodon 4.2.11 and 4.1.19, fixing various small issues.

Release notes and upgrade instructions are available on our GitHub release page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

#mastoadmin

Releases · mastodon/mastodon

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

^GitHub

Mastodon 4.2.11 and 4.1.19 have been released with bug fixes.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

#MastoAdmin

Releases · mastodon/mastodon

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

^GitHub