I'm seeing random posts show up in my federated timeline from "@toa_Holoris@ wake.0am.jp".

I'm on a single user instance and the content does not appear to being boosted by anybody I follow, nor does it contain any hashtags I follow.

Any suggestions as to how?

I'm going to block them anyway.

#Mastodon #mastoadmin #fediverse

Okay, hello any fellow #mastoadmin and/or #hometown folks out there in the wubs, I am in need of some help.

I have twice now failed to do the far-overdue security update from v4.0.15+hometown-1.1.1 to v4.2.10+hometown-1.1.1 — the script I followed, and the errors I was getting from mastodon-web.service, are here: gist.github.com/robsimmons/6a5…

gist:6a55df68ed95a2370ae35a846953a6de

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

^Gist

chow.fan finally upgraded to #Mastodon v4.3.7.

#mastoadmin

A Bowl of Fried Rice

A bowl of fried rice for the Fediverse.

^{Mastodon hosted on chow.fan}

We just released Mastodon 4.3.7 and 4.2.20 and 4.1.25. They contain a few minor bug fixes.

Note that this will most likely be the last Mastodon 4.1 release, and 4.1 will be unsupported in 6 days, so we highly advise you to update if you run it.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

#mastoadmin

Releases · mastodon/mastodon

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

^GitHub

Just fixed quickly an issue with videos being cropped too much in some corner-case situations (replies mostly) in Mastodon v4.4.0-alpha.4 and Mastodon Bird UI nightly versions.

Mastodon Bird UI 2.1.2rc12 (nightly) for nightly/alpha/mainline versions is now available.

github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mas…

#Mastodon #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #MastoAdmin #OpenSource

GitHub - ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui at nightly

🐘🐦 Mastodon web UI, but strongly inspired by Twitter. - GitHub - ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui at nightly

^GitHub

🚨 Important 🚨

I have found a scammer on mastodon.social called sagego.ca. He will DM you. Do not fall for this scam

How did I know that this person is a scammer?

I found a video of a scam discord server. Luckly the pfp on the thumbnail somehow matches the user profile

Here is the video youtube.com/watch?v=k-iPRlZW5o…

#scam #MastoAdmin #scammers

Are you a club, co-operative, institution, business or other organisation that wants to run a Mastodon server?

If so, you might want to get to know the "roles" system in Mastodon's administrative tools. This is an extremely useful and flexible way of assigning titles and powers to staff on your server. It also includes an (optional) hierarchy which makes cases of disagreement easier to resolve.

You can find out more info about it at:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-can-organisation…

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

How can organisations or groups run a Mastodon server? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

Looks like Nicole, #FediverseChick, is now going with usernames beginning with "neckerchief" #MastoAdmin #Spam #Fediblock

neckerchief23@ploen.social

So far, the dozen or so my instance has blocked all started with 'nicole....'

archaeo.social has defederated social.freysa.ai, which is flooding hashtags such as #Archaeology and #History with repetitive LLM-generated posts.

#MetaArchaeoSocial #MastoAdmin #FediBlock

archaeo.social

archaeo.social is a Mastodon instance for archaeologists, ancient historians and anyone interested in scholarly communication about the human past. More: https://about.archaeo.social

^{Mastodon hosted on archaeo.social}