Dear #fediadmin, regarding the current ongoing full force assault on our services by AI scrappers with all the risks associated (costs, services stability, data being stolen and so on) I can only recommend the setting up of #techaro #anubis requests filter to "weight the souls of incoming HTTP requests"

I tested it so far on #alpine #debian deployed services with either #caddy , #apache2 / #httpd and #nginx for the following services #nextcloud, #mastodon, #forgejo, #lemmy, #funkwhale, #bookwyrm and a #minecraft #mapviewer with little hassle and no big issues

Following the use of #anubis, all scrapper (AI and regular) logs dropped drastically and bandwitch usage was cut by two third on the mastodon instance and half for the others services

Do yourself and your users a favor try it : https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Die Tore zum #FediCamp öffnen sich übernächste Woche (16.–20.)!

Abenteurer*innen, Forscher*innen und Neugierige aller Art sind eingeladen, gemeinsam neue Welten zu entdecken und Wissen zu teilen.

Die Tafel ist noch nicht voll – sichere dir jetzt deinen Platz im Lager der Wissbegierigen!

Alle Quests, Infos & Anmeldung findest du unter: https://fedi.camp

Wirst du Teil der Gemeinschaft? Wir freuen uns auf dich!

Currently pondering whether to migrate this account to a self-hosted GoToSocial instance.

My main concern is #safety and I see that GoToSocial supports #blocklists

What blocklists do people usually recommend out there?

Starting tomorrow or the day after the Mastodon Public User Profile search at https://western.social will exclude users from mastodon.social. This is due to their upcoming Terms Of Service change that forbids use of public user profile data.

Many have asked and now you can donate directly, and support the ongoing costs and maintenance for https://nsfw.social/!

In fact, we pledge and promise to pay-it-forward and donate 20% of your contributions upstream to the #Sharkey project to help fund and support their development costs since without Sharkey, there would be no #NSFWsocial!

#NSFWadmin #FediAdmin #SharkeyAdmin #MastoAdmin #donating #support

https://buymeacoffee.com/nsfwsocial/welcome-3772444

Many have asked and now you can donate directly, and support the ongoing costs and maintenance for https://nsfw.lgbt!

In fact, we pledge and promise to pay-it-forward and donate 20% of your contributions upstream to the #Sharkey project to help fund and support their development costs since without Sharkey, there would be no #NSFWlgbt!

#NSFWadmin #FediAdmin #SharkeyAdmin #MastoAdmin #donating #support

https://buymeacoffee.com/nsfwlgbt/welcome-3763173

Anybody out there in GIS or urbanism or sustainability or transportation planning or any related field interested in taking over this server? I hate to have move again...but the owner is leaving mastodon.

I recently created a small, silly icon emote pack togehter with the community, and I occasionally add more icons to it.

You can use the icons to annoy your Fediverse instance administrators and moderators!

https://ramses.coffee/emotes/sillyicons/.

inviting some friends in here! it’s running on a pretty small server tho - my host says a maximum 10 users, but since ppl here aren’t rlly following anyone other than each other it should be good?

Not really expecting anyone to stay tho (ik it’s not that addictive)

Everyone should try use the local feed to see each others’ posts!


appreciate ppl from other servers boosting this post to make more instances cache this!


#gotosocial #fediverse #mastodon #fedi #boost #fediadmin #mastoadmin

New release of #Fediwall suports fedi.buzz as a source and is nicer to unresponsive or overloaded source servers. The update also contains security patches in dependencies, but those issues did not impact fediwall, so no urgency for an update.

https://github.com/defnull/fediwall/releases/tag/v1.4.0
https://fediwall.social

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

Anybody know what's going on with https://gay.camera/? We've got a lot of posts that are backing up trying to be delivered to them. #FediAdmin #NSFWadmin #MastoAdmin

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

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.

Did anyone ever try to move a GoToSocial instance between servers? I want to switch VPS providers, and move my GTS from one server to another, preferably not losing any data in the process. Can it cause problems with federation? My GTS instance uses a SQLite DB and an nginx reverse proxy.

#GoToSocial #FediAdmin @gotosocial

Twoot Space admin announcement: we're going to be silencing Fosstodon (@fosstodon) for 30 days, during which time we'll assess the implications of their mod team makeup and any follow-up actions they take following the revelations linked below on a potential full suspension.

https://mastodon.social/@lo__/114392446287909291

https://mastodon.social/@lo__/114370692797365997