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Esper - instance updates<p>esper.lol has now been updated to <a href="https://esper.lol/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> v4.3.8. You can read the changes made in this update here: <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r</span><span class="invisible">eleases/tag/v4.3.8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://esper.lol/tags/instance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>instance</span></a> <a href="https://esper.lol/tags/update" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>update</span></a> <a href="https://esper.lol/tags/mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoadmin</span></a> <a href="https://esper.lol/tags/esper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>esper</span></a></p>
smeg<p>Updated to Mastodon v4.3.8 successfully</p><p><a href="https://assortedflotsam.com/tags/mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoadmin</span></a></p>
baskin :kafeneio: 🐊<p>Έγινε αναβάθμισης ΠΛΕΜΠΑΙΟΙ, εμείς και η ΜΟΥΝΤΙΣ σε έκδοση v4.3.8 του Mastodon. <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sysadmin</span></a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoadmin</span></a></p>
Cadu Silva :v_fb:<p>A Bolhinha foi atualizada para o Mastodon v4.4.0-alpha.5-fbe9728+bolhinha :neobread_checkmark: </p><p><a href="https://bolha.one/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a></p>
born2chill<p>Hallo zusammen!</p><p>Wir haben gerade den neuen patch release 4.3.8 auf allen Instanzen ausgerollt. Es ist nur ein kleiner release der ein Sicherheitsproblem behebt.</p><p>* <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r</span><span class="invisible">eleases/tag/v4.3.8</span></a></p><p>Viel Grüße und schönen Abend,<br>Eure Fediverse Foundation</p><p>Edit:<br>PS: bitte wie immer Browser mit Ctrl+Shift+R neu laden, falls ihr Darstellungsprobleme haben solltet.</p><p><a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/wienops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wienops</span></a> <a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/FediverseFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediverseFoundation</span></a> <a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/FediAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a></p>
System BAYERWALD.SOCIAL<p><a href="https://bayerwald.social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bayerwald.social</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> läuft jetzt mit Softwareversion v4.3.8</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r</span><span class="invisible">eleases/tag/v4.3.8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bayerwald.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://bayerwald.social/tags/mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoadmin</span></a> <a href="https://bayerwald.social/tags/update" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>update</span></a></p>
Ric Harvey 🇪🇺🌍💚<p>Upgraded to <a href="https://mastodon.squarecows.com/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> 4.3.8 <a href="https://mastodon.squarecows.com/tags/mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoadmin</span></a></p>
Mastodon Engineering<p>We just released Mastodon 4.3.8 and 4.2.21. They contain a few minor bug fixes and a minor security fix.</p><p>If you are running nightly versions, an updated container image is available under the `nightly.2025-05-07-security` tag</p><p>Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page: <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r</span><span class="invisible">eleases/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoadmin</span></a></p>
Emil Jacobs - Collectifission<p>Updated the instance to 4.3.8</p><p><a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a></p>
Uckermark MacGyver :nonazi:<p><a href="https://hub.uckermark.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> update to v4.3.8 done <a href="https://hub.uckermark.social/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a></p>
Playerlist :apple_old_logo:<p>mastodon.vaporghost.at is currently running Mastodon version 4.3.8. Stay updated on new releases: <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r</span><span class="invisible">eleases</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vaporghost.at/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vaporghost.at/tags/update" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>update</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vaporghost.at/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vaporghost.at/tags/Bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bot</span></a></p>
Mastodon Releases<p>New Mastodon Release</p><p>:mastodon: v4.3.8 :mastodon:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r</span><span class="invisible">eleases/tag/v4.3.8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastoadmin</span></a></p>
Stefan Schmidt<p>Mastodon v4.3.8 release</p><p>Security:<br>- Update dependencies<br>- Check scheme on account, profile, and media URLs (GHSA-x2rc-v5wx-g3m5)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r</span><span class="invisible">eleases/tag/v4.3.8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.resolvt.net/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://twitter.resolvt.net/tags/Mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastoadmin</span></a></p>
Mastodon Releases<p>New Mastodon Release</p><p>:mastodon: stable-4.3: Merge commit from fork :mastodon:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/stable-4.3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r</span><span class="invisible">eleases/tag/stable-4.3</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastoadmin</span></a></p>
Administrateurs ZdX<p><a href="https://social.zdx.fr/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> - <a href="https://social.zdx.fr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">social.zdx.fr</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> - vient d'être mis à jour en v4.3.7</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r</span><span class="invisible">eleases/tag/v4.3.7</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.zdx.fr/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a></p>
Arataka<p>Well... I accidently made it so no inbound requests from the entire Fediverse would actually make it to my instance... Fixed it now! But... anything that was favorited, boosted, or replied to for the last 2-3 hours or so isn't showing up for me :arataka_stare:. </p><p>Pro tip, don't use "bot fight mode" on a Mastodon instance.</p><p><a href="https://esper.lol/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://esper.lol/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://esper.lol/tags/mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoadmin</span></a></p>
Grow Your Own Services 🌱<p>Mastodon admins, did you know you can very easily customise your server's favicon, app icon and thumbnail artwork?</p><p>Go to ⚙️ Preferences &gt; Administration &gt; Server Settings, scroll to the bottom and click "Browse" to upload your icons/artwork.</p><p>"Server Thumbnail" = Artwork in link previews and Mastodon server listings</p><p>"Favicon" = Icon that appears when people bookmark your server’s website on their web browser</p><p>"App Icon" = Icon if people install your server’s website as a web app</p><p><a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a></p>
Paul Chambers🚧<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.hostnetwork.xyz/@fox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fox</span></a></span> I'm not sure what problems you are having getting tootctl to work, but I normally do this:</p><p>I have to add, based on my setup,</p><p>RAILS_ENV=production bin/ before the tootctl command</p><p>So, what I do is, from terminal, as root,</p><p>su - mastodon -s /bin/bash</p><p>then go to cd live (to make sure I am at home/mastodon/live)</p><p>and then run tootctl</p><p>so, commands would be:</p><p>checks media use <br>RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl media usage </p><p>remove media<br>RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl media remove --days=7</p><p>remove preview card<br>RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl preview_cards remove --days=3</p><p>remove media not attached to any post<br>RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl media remove-orphans</p><p>I once had to fix S3 permissions</p><p>RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl media remove-orphans --fix-permissions</p><p>Good luck. Your instance isn't that big and that is an enormous amount of storage <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a></p>
jenbanim<p><a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/tags/Fediblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediblock</span></a> </p><p>Accounts that have not yet been suspended at the time of writing this on their origin server are marked with a (!)</p><p>Today's:</p><p>sebastiana@piaille.fr (!)<br>kirstine@pouet.chapril.org (!)<br>lesley@mastoturk.org (!)<br>laverna@mastodon-japan.net (!)</p><p>Yesterday's:</p><p>koral@sociale.network<br>koral@mastodon.bida.im<br>koral@sociale.network<br>nakyiab@pouet.chapril.org (!)<br>nakya@mastoturk.org (!)<br>mirianelsa@troet.cafe<br>gaia@ohai.social<br>gaia03@mastodon.nl</p>
jenbanim<p><a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a> unfortunately yesterday's anti-Ukraine spam poster has graduated to sending photos of corpses of Ukrainian soldiers to random users. If you're on a fork of Mastodon that supports this feature, I suggest blocking this blurhash</p><p><code>UDHLF^^lRR-;~XZ#i^S%^+D*WBozOZNGbDtR</code></p><p>I will include a list of users in the replies to this comment for a <a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/tags/Fediblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediblock</span></a></p>