@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on securing publicly available software running at home.
I'm thinking about running my mastodon instance at home instead of DigitalOcean, but that means publicly advertising my home IP address on the web. Putting that behind a VPN or similar isn't an option because other servers have to reach mine r…
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115599035878316402
"Mastodon-ish instances". Wait, what? 👀👀👀
@waidler@bayerwald.socialPerhaps one of my next projects is to set up a Mastodon instance (may be this one) on a cluster of 3 or more Raspberry Pi's. Still no exact imagination on how to distribute the different services in a meaningful manner. An example could be:
🖥️ Node Roles
pi-master: PostgreSQL, Redis, Reverse Proxy
pi-worker1: Web (Rails), Streaming
pi-worker2: Sidekiq, Web (replica)
#mastodon
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzHuh, think I might've figured out why one (but only one) of my NextCloud instances loses contact with the OnlyOffice instance on the same host... Figured out it *might* be because of frequent polling that's resulted in the Mailcow instance (also on the host, as I'm trying to economise) is seeing it as making too many connections and is temporarily fail2banning it nightly. I've added the host's IP(v4&6) to the Fail2Ban whitelist... 🤞 it's still connected tomorrow!<…
@steve@s.yelvington.comI host my own Mastodon instance, and my (retired) blog.
https://www.xda-developers.com/self-hosting-digital-independence/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social“you can just supply an IP address of a MongoDB instance and it’ll start ferreting out in memory things such as database passwords (which are plain text), AWS secret keys etc. The exploit specifically looks for those class of credentials and secrets, too.”
https://doublepulsar.com…
@davej@dice.campApologies to followers and would-be correspondents on mastodon.social—I've just found a bunch of replies to my posts over the last year that dice.camp filtered out on the basis of instance. I couldn't see them in my client, but stumbled across them accessing Masto via the web.
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialAnyone looking for context on the Irish presidential election, here is everything you need to know:
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/24/messy-democracy-irelands-reshaped-presidency/
@whitequark@mastodon.socialok so, check this out
i have the YoWASP toolchain extension use a full OpenBSD toolchain cross-compiled to run on Wasm in the browser produce OpenBSD binaries!
@rafa_font@mastodon.onlineHow To Control Your #Dreams At Night: 3 Secrets From Research
- What are lucid dreams
- How to induce them (for example, waking up two hours earlier than usual and then coming back to sleep)
- How to control them (for instance, using your voice to give instructions to the dream elements)
Keep dreaming!
Source:
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialFinally updated my peertube instance to v8: #Yunohost
You can follow my peertube account as well: @…
@barijaona@mastodon.mgSi vous êtes nouveau sur le Fédivers et débutez sur une petite instance comme mastodon.mg, se constituer un réseau peut être un défi.
La facilité serait d'utiliser les starter packs https://fedidevs.com/starter-packs/
Mais je vous encourage Š être plus ambitieux et Š chercher Š vous constit…
@xiffy@mastodon.nlThe last two months I have been typing a relatively short introduction to XBRL from a technical point of view. The need to knows of the XML underneath, how a taxonomy is built and how to create an instance.
Intended audience: developers that have to deal with XBRL.
You can grab a copy here: #xbrl #xml #developers
@noellabo@fedibird.com現在、mstdn.jpのサーバー情報を返すAPI（古い方 v1）がエラーになっています。
https://mstdn.jp/api/v1/instance
:mastodon_oops:
ちなみに正常に動くpawoo.netだとこんな内容になります。
https://pawoo.net/api/v1…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAre there any admins on social.tchncs.de.? Is anonymously spreading lies about over 30 families in Gaza allowed on this instance?
This anonymous coward has been chased off of every server he’s been on and yet he’s still here, still attacking people suffering from genocide and famine.
(And yes, some folks copy posts from others. We’ve asked them not to. But they’re trying to survive genocide, not win social media awards.)
Also (see his second post) we’re not attempting to r…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialOne important thing I need to keep in mind with LibreWolf is that when something does not work I need to check if it works in Firefox.
For instance the TrueNAS shell was not working, and I realized that TrueNAS wasn't broken, LibreWolf was just "protecting" me...
Which again, is a good thing, but it's sometime a bit too much protection for those of us who know what we are doing.
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"Public AI, Built On Open Source, Is The Way Forward In The EU". -Glyn Moody @…
This seems to opens the door to work on important problems, for instance building a solid climateGPT in Europe.
@floheinstein@chaos.socialRE: https://chaos.social/@FlohEinstein/115223663661434774
Hey, my instance updated Mastodon to > v4.5 - so I can finally quote! 🥳
@groupnebula563@mastodon.sociallooking to #selfhost a #mastodon instance, anyone know any good options? #fediverse
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@HugeGameArtGD@mastodon.gamedev.placeReposting since OP's instance defederated replies for no reason
#fediblock
@frankel@mastodon.top
@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blueRE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115412766853977995
PS, quotes working on the iPhone app with an instance on 4.5 beta 1.
@eitch@mstdn.gsi.liWow, already 3 years on the #Fediverse, meaning I have been running my #Mastodon instance just as long... crazy how fast time flies by...
My instance here in Switzerland is still small, so if someone needs a home, you may join!
@joe@toot.worksWow! I just received a report from another mastodon instance for violating that instance's rule against "Profiting/benefiting from the destruction of the planet and society." That's a little extreme. 
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social@… maybe it's worth considering to change the hosting provider. We're hosting our Vernissage instance at @… and they're way more cost effective
@cdp1337@social.bitsnbytes.devI thought I was going to be in luck, as there's a convenient 'Export Data' which generates a .zip containing all the source account data.
Went to the new instance expecting to import that zip, only to be greeted with 'This only supports CSV files'...
FML
SO, my current thought process is to let the new server pull in posts from the original server organically, (with help from
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe Mastodon iOS app now has options that allow quote posting and changing quote post options but my instance doesn't support it and I get amazing error messages like "Error 404" inside the Mastodon iOS app.
This lack of polish is unfortunately why "normal" people think Mastodon is clunky.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alDecent folks may want to block this libertarian, pro-genocide instance.
(libertarian.communitynetwork.space)
https://libertarian.communitynetwork.space/objects/0b38de6a-3cbe-4113-8fbb-25b17b6e5dfe
@wraithe@mastodon.socialNGL, all this shit with Jay (the CEO of BlueSky) has got me thinking REAL hard about finally spinning up a GoToSocial instance for myself on my Synology.
@chpietsch@fedifreu.deI'm running a German-speaking Mastodon instance with half-open registration. So when I receive an account application in English, it's almost always from a bot or click-worker/slave trying to create sleeper accounts for use in spam campaigns. Here is a rather disingenious, very generic application that came in today:
I would like to register on this site to explore its features, connect with the community, and contribute valuable insights. I’m genuinely interested in engagi…
@timbray@cosocial.caWe just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combo of AWS, OVH, and DO to @…, see https://fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit based in Canada and with no US dependencies. Already fe…
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialInteresting. Looks like my Mastodon instance has been recently upgraded to support quote-toots.
#Mastodon #QuoteToots
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.comThe year is 2025, I just moved the PostgreSQL DB for my mastodon instance off of one disk onto another.
This is the best timeline for the tech world.
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesThere's a tool that analyses your 2025 hackernews comments through a LLM and give you a summary
Who am I:
The Fediverse Urbanist
A supply-and-demand fundamentalist who divides their time equally between defending housing density and explaining why your social media platform is a centralized prison for bots. You have successfully mapped the entire journey from a car-dependent suburb to a Mastodon instance using only RSS feeds and a burning hatred for high-tariff border …
@aral@mastodon.ar.alJust suspended/defederated the zhub.link domain that appears to be a white supremacist/hate speech instance whose admin is going around harassing Palestinians and allies on the fediverse and is/was apparently also hosting an account disseminating CSAM (https://hear-me.social/@admin/11266673170955…
@mszll@datasci.socialHeads up: Our instance datasci.social will receive new hardware tonight and a rollout to Mastodon v.4.5.1, so there might be minor interruptions tonight. #mastoadmin
@noellabo@fedibird.com@… 基準になる数字はサーバによって違うけど、ここに情報があります。
mastodon.socialの場合
https://
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… gaat de huisgenoot zelf hosten of een Shared instance?
@Stomata@social.linux.pizzaI think i'll Move to @… (an akkoma instance). Guess I have finally decided to leave Mastodon as my no Github journey.
I'll spend some more time to get used to akkoma. Wish me luck
#fediverse
@cdp1337@social.veraciousnetwork.comI thought I was going to be in luck, as there's a convenient 'Export Data' which generates a .zip containing all the source account data.
Went to the new instance expecting to import that zip, only to be greeted with 'This only supports CSV files'...
FML
SO, my current thought process is to let the new server pull in posts from the original server organically, (with help from
@3sframe@social.linux.pizza @eitch@mstdn.gsi.liSo, i have upgraded my #Mastodon instance https://mstdn.gsi.li to 4.5.1. That was so easy, thanks to the Mastodon @devs for doing a great job!
@stefan@gardenstate.socialbluesky to mastodon instance name ideas:
bluestadon
mastosky
greengrass
ThirdTimesTheCharm
JaysWish
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeBeginning to wonder about moving to a new instance in the indefinite vaguely near future, since IOCX admins seem to be a bit behind the curve (we're still on mastodon 4.3.7).
I poked them but havent heard back or even seen any posts from them in a while, which makes me wonder if I'm living on a ghost ship.
Anyone have suggestions on one that's generally friendly to cool EE research, OSS/OSH, infosec, etc stuff?
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… sorry, het was grappig bedoeld. Gezien je zelf op een Shared instance zit was het idee dat je dat sowieso niet zou opzetten. Mijn excuses voor de misplaatste grap.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI used to run a few generative Twitter bots, all of which are now defunct due to Elon-related API restrictions, focus and audience shifts, etc. I'd like to resurrect a couple, and maybe even ensloppify one with AI (to attract VC $€£) but it appears botsin.space is dead. Any decent botting instances left? Is mastodon.bot alright? Should I just start my own instance, and make my hobby trying to get federated, instead?
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cajust looking at my archive of postgresql backups over the past 2 years of my mastodon instance.
In December 2023 just shy of 1 year since spinning it up, the compressed gz file of the database was 600MB.
By Aug 2024 it was 988MB
In April 2025 it was 1500MB
Today it is 1800MB.
That is a 2 user instance. Not small!
#selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caIt's my third #mastodonniversary today! Crazy!!
To celebrate I am getting ready to help host and chair the first #SocialBC and Society of Open Social Servers of BC Annual General Meeting tomorrow with @… and @…
it starts at 5PM! full info in the announcement 📢
If you are in BC and would like to help grow a #regional instance come on over! There is no requirement to be part
of the Society but any SocialBC account holder
can be at the AGM and anyone who has donated at least $20 in the past year is a full member and can vote and volunteer for the Board!
Onward for the #opensocialweb!
#SOSSBC
#mastodon
#fediverse
#volunteer
#community
#society
#bc
#mastodonMigration
#bluesky
