COLON THREE CAT FACE PRIDE EMOJI PACK!!! 
our wonderful cyberpunk.lol co-admin @rachaelspooky has put together yet another super fuckin awesome emoji pack!!!
these and faer other emoji packs are free to download here https://rachael.cafe/emoji/
consider donating to help rachael pay rent and stay housed!!! https://cyberpunk.lol/@rachaelspooky/114541952062212143
full set and more info at https://cyberpunk.lol/@rachaelspooky/114536249071822630
Such exciting news for the instance!!! After literal years we finally have an official "About" page including guides and explainers, moderation procedures, and "Rules"! Thank you so much to @onyinyang for all of your incredible work on this!
Mastodon admins,
If you want to remind your members to add image descriptions, there is a piece of custom CSS code you can use which puts a red border around posts without alt texts. Instructions on how to do this here:
Mastodon is all fun and games until you realise it can become a very heavy and hungry piece of software.
If you're thinking about spinning your own fediverse instance, take a look at GoToSocial, Hollo or Snac.
GoToSocial, for example, is a very secure, privacy-minded alternative and can run without complications in a very cheap VPS with only 512 MB of RAM and a database file (SQLite).
have any admins running the glitch-soc or vanilla mastodon main branches enabled the fetch all replies functionality yet? if so, have you noticed any differences or things to be aware of? i'm looking to try and enable it on wetdry.world once the changes for updating statuses when fetching replies are applied
#mastoadmin #fediadmin
Eine Frage an die FediVerse-Admins, die ihre eigene Instanz ausschließlich gegen ein "Nutzungsentgeld" anbieten, also zB für 1€ je Monat.
Wie setzt ihr das durch, habt ihr zB eine "Bezahlseite" in den Registrierungsprozess eingebaut?
Worüber können eure Account-Nutzer*innen bezahlen?
Habt ihr eure Instanz auf ein Maximum an möglichen Konten eingestellt?
Decken die darüber generierten Einnahmen die Ausgaben, die ihr für das Hosting habt?
Und ergänzend, falls ihr damit selbstständig seid:
Reichen die Einnahmen auch aus, um euren Lebensunterhalt zu sichern?
Oder bietet ihr dafür weitere Leistungen an (die nicht unbedingt etwas mit dem FediVerse zu tun haben müssen)?
#FediVerse #FediAdmin #FediAccount #Registrierung #Selbstständigkeit
Is there, like, an auth_fetch readiness check tool that can be given the right permissions to do an API check of a list of known federation servers, and ask those servers if it's ready and using auth_fetch itself?
This could be a long running python script to gradually go through a large list like that, or a GitHub action? Is this even necessary at this point?
Total annual cost of running this #gotosocial instance: $37.
$25 for VPS (1 vCPU, 3GB RAM and 100GB NVMe)
$12 for domain
A year of #fediverse for the price of two months of ad-free #netflix.
Hallo!
Wir hosten ja (bekanntlich?) auch https://feddit.org, die größte Lemmy Instanz im DACH-Raum. Da gab es in letzter Zeit leider ein paar Ausfälle.
Auslöser: unterm Strich wieder AI/LLM scraper bots.
MMn Ein weiteres Signal dafür, dass diesem Unwesen endlich Grenzen gesetzt werden müssen. Es wird langsam unmöglich, öffentlich zugängliche Webservices zu betreiben, da die scraper so zahlreich und aggressiv sind und laufend für hohe Serverlast und downtimes verantwortlich sind.
Was das global gesehen zusätzlich für einen vollkommen sinnlosen Energieverbrauch bedeutet möchte ich gar nicht wissen 
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Details dazu in unserer Wiki als RCA:
Viele Grüße und ein schönes WE, eure
Fediverse Foundation
suigow.xyz upgraded from #GoToSocial v0.19.0 to v0.19.1. That was easy peasy.
Hallo zusammen!
Wir haben gerade den neuen patch release 4.3.8 auf allen Instanzen ausgerollt. Es ist nur ein kleiner release der ein Sicherheitsproblem behebt.
* https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.8
Viel Grüße und schönen Abend,
Eure Fediverse Foundation
Edit:
PS: bitte wie immer Browser mit Ctrl+Shift+R neu laden, falls ihr Darstellungsprobleme haben solltet.
Gerne boosten!
Ich brauche mal etwas Hilfe: Ich betreibe eine eigene Mastodon-Instanz (bzw. Sharkey), aber irgendwas mache ich wohl falsch. Mein Profilbild und das Verifizierungs-Icon neben meinem Namen werden nur lokal angezeigt – auf anderen Instanzen scheint es nicht synchronisiert zu werden.
Woran könnte das liegen?
#Mastodon #Sharkey #Fediverse #Selfhosting #InstanceAdmin #TechSupport #Linux #Docker #Hetzner #FediAdmin #ActivityPub #Profilbild
@Da_Gut
#fediadmin
#fedidev
#protocol
I not sure.
hopefully these tags help
ever since the very beginning way back when i first started this instance in late december 2023, it has always said at the very top of the about page
"this is just a humble little instance i started because the domain was miraculously cheap and i figured "why shunt fate?" let's see what this seed blossoms into..."
well here we are a year and a half later and i'm pretty goddamn proud of what this instance has become. and it's always evolving and growing! i met my best friend through this place. helped so many people by giving them a space to express themselves freely and without judgement. and just had an absolutely amazing goddamn time posting and hanging out and being on here. and i think that is absolutely fucking beautiful
New blog post!
This time I talk about the two recent migrations I did with my data:
I migrated my main VPS from a US based VPS provider to @hetzner because I want to have my stuff in Europe.
The second one was the migration of this exact account from which I send this toot, I moved it from Fosstodon to my own GoToSocial instance which I am self-hosting on that Hetzner server.
I hope you will find it useful!
https://stfn.pl/blog/69-migrating-servers-migrating-instances/
Give me some Mastodon instance recommendations, I'd like to make an alternative account.
Some smaller, well-maintained instance with English as the main language.
Thanks!!
We should have a community fund to pay for therapy for all the Fediverse’s admins and mods
I'm not sure that the DARVO approach is the most successful way to respond to critique of a community's management, but I guess we'll find out. #FediAdmin #FediBlockMeta
Our 1000-active-user cap for FLOSS.social is still in effect, and will soon again be reached as we welcome a new wave of community members.
This number is determined as the mean (average) between the "active in last month" and "six months" from the data at: https://floss.social/nodeinfo/2.0
Small servers make for good communities and good federation.
does anyone observe problems with the hetzner's s3-compatible object storage, or is it only me?
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