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In the past few weeks there has been a bot farm hammering small Mastodon instances with requests for what looks like emoji-related assets and the hashtag API.
More specifically, it appears this bot farm has now come for my Mastodon instance, because the number of requests has doubled in the last 24 hours, with a lot of the requests being API requests for a single JSON file.
Even more specifically, looking at data provided by my CDN provider, a lot of the bots appear to be using IP addresses associated with Tencent Singapore.
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

⁉️ Hat jemand Bock, Guppe wieder aufleben zu lassen? Es muss sich jemand um Serveraufsetzen und Betrieb kümmern.
https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/119

Guppe(.)org registered: we will donate the domain or will try running the service if some tech folks will help us · Issue #119 · immers-space/guppe
Our nonprofit / NGO runs a very small instance at games(.)ngo. We have benefited from using gup(.)pe over the years to help us engage with other instances more effectively. It is frustrating that s...

Wow, man, imagine being the kind of person that suspends anyone he sees from Gaza during a genocide.
The inhumanity of some Germans is really quite remarkable. Didn’t you get enough of genocide the first time around?
Add social.tchncs.de to the list of Zionist, pro-genocide Mastodon servers.
#germany #israel

Fabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.eu)
@Mohmad30 @aral hi Mohammed, you can check the status of suspensions/limitations on your account here.As of now your account is suspended on the following medium-large instances:chaos.socialmastodo...

#Software peeps: do you still do box diagrams to work out how your structures will sit in memory?
#Lisp

Cool - managed to move one of my Uptime Kumas from Sqlite3 to MariaDB... and I created 2 additional instances so I could split up my concerns among the responsible entities (relevant companies/communities). It's impressive software, though I think it'd be cool if it supported user accounts (currently there's just scope for a single account on each instance). That's being explored...

Cryptpad is an interesting platform, you can collaborate, fully encrypted, no BigTech involved, there are already several instances and ofcourse you can start your own one.
#crpytpad

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Likely violating the UN Charter (article 2(4), article 51) and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (article 88, article 90), and possibly the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocol I as well, the United States killed 87 Iranian sailors over 1,000 miles from Iran.
Unclear if the United States even attempted to rescue any of the 32 survivors rescued by the Sri Lankan Navy and Air Force.

Sri Lanka recovers 87 bodies from Iranian warship sunk by US submarine
Sri Lanka’s navy has recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people after an Iranian warship was sunk by a U.S. submarine in international waters near the island. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday a torpedo sank Iran's “prize ship” — one of the few instances of a submarine sinking a ship since World War II. A spokesman for Sri Lanka's navy said it responded to a distress signal from the IRIS Dena, but by the time its personnel reached the location, there was no sign of the s…

Despite the small team size,
Mastodon operates two large, production Mastodon instances:
mastodon.social
Runs on Kubernetes with autoscaling between 9 and 15 nodes (16 cores, 64 GB RAM each). Web frontend scale between 5 and 20 pods, while various Sidekiq worker pools scale between 10 and 40 pods. On average, mastodon.social has 70–80 pods running at any given time. This platform handles up to 300,000 active users per day and approximately 10 million requests per minute.
ma…

How Mastodon Runs OpenTelemetry Collectors in Production
At the beginning of 2025, the OpenTelemetry Developer Experience SIG published the results of its first community survey. One of the strongest themes was clear: teams want more real-world examples of how the OpenTelemetry SDKs and the OpenTelemetry Collector are actually used in production. To help close that gap, the SIG began collecting stories directly from end users—across industries, architectures, and company sizes. This post kicks off a new series focused specifically on organizations�…

If you know people on social.cologne who aren’t Zionists/genocide supporters please let them know that they cannot see posts by me and others who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people as our instances and accounts are blocked by their Zionist/pro-genocide server.
I can only assume Zionist/pro-genocide servers will not be allowed according to mastodon.social’s new server covenant and suggested as safe spaces to newcomers to the fediverse (including Palestinians suff…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/116052332060770274
Now that the poll is done, thinking if something like this make sense?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116343068001927591
I recommend replacing instances of “woke” with “Jewish” if you want to understand fascism

Was just reminded that I needed to kick in some more money to the BlackSky stuff.
Considering the money I’ve kicked in for great Mastodon clients and instances, the work Rudy and others are doing is well worth the same! https://mastodon.sandwich.net/@Sharksonaplane/114997406…

Surprising that they are using #Microsoft on #orion
You'd think they would be afraid to open windows

Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’
Meanwhile, we are happy to learn that the toilet urine extractor fan has been fixed.

#Mastodon needs a few tweaks to its notifications.
As stuff is working now, we get notified of replies, but only if our handle is included in the replies. However, not all instances/apps include the handle in the reply.
As an example, @… replied to this post…

#Cloud #Cost Comparison for #European Providers
https://www.eucloudco…

Welp, that was non-trivial, but I've just managed to upgrade one of my Peertube instances from 7.3.0 -> 8.0.2 (includes an upgrade from PostgreSQL 13 -> 17)! Very impressive bit of kit, this! Well done Framasoft and friends!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@joplinapp/116126439571907348
Maybe other sites and instances like Mastodon should have a canary as well

What the actual fuck?
The 13yo kept wanting to know if #Mamdani has seen K-pop Demon Hunters (don't ask me why, but he was bugging me to look it up all afternoon while we were out; I was discussing Mamdani w/ the family for other reasons:

@… @… Just today, I was reviewing a code change where a coworker was changing ~50 instances of a magic number from value x to value y.
I had the gall to suggest we might want to abstract the value into a constant or …

Inside the #DevelopmentWorkflow of #ClaudeCode's Creator
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/claud…

@… @…
Technically every message is rather manipulative.
I think one problem is that admins on topic related instances are likely preferring advocacy groups targeted against another lobby, e. g.
"oil against …

The thing about the streisand effect is that the only way the right can fight against instances of it is to not gloat, and that's all they know.

@… thanks.
I'm pragmatic about levels of engagement here and elsewhere.
Looking at other instances' local live feeds, in isolation, was … erm … I'm not sure how to describe the overall experience, but it was worth it.

Working on a google document for anyone who wants to cover the pediverse https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qZGKUhbX45GEunEnhTwZFwnO-rH_zlMvCgG2vubBUbY/edit?usp=sharing
please archive and spread this information

The Pediverse
The pediverse is a group of fediverse instances dedicated to “pro para” activism. This activism, though mainly focused on “minor attracted persons” or MAPS, also includes zoophiles and necrophiles. A brief primer can be found here: Important vocabulary The “para” community has a language of th...

@… thanks, I have my shortlist down to two instances.
I currently lean towards beige.party. because whenever I browse its local live feed alongside mas.to, the beige makes me feel better.
Would you like to suggest any other instance?

Welp, this will be my last run until after surgery. Is there a Walkers of Mastodon, lol? 😆 I will be doing more walking and light elliptical use.
I've had multiple instances of collapsed vestibular episodes, and I'm done powering through this in the interest of not losing my hearing, or worse. I'm one stubborn son of a bitch, but I've been doing more damage to my body over the last 14 months than I should have been (under the guise of this being long covid and part of …

@… thanks – infosec.exchange was one of the first instances that I looked at.
> for info/cyber security-minded people.
<https://infosec.exchange/@coleens_/115

Lol, was looking for more pediverse instances to add the list, and found an anti-pedo instance that uses the hashtag to post anime art with feet in it.
Also found an unfortunate pediatrician trying to use the hashtag to find other pediatricians.

omg... imagine a whole community of #Mastodon and #Fediverse instances that are run ontop of Linux distributions using this #cosmic scheduler!!
lol
"Your notifications are being delayed as Mars is in retrograde”
#astrology #linux #fun
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/dev-creates-astrology-powered-cpu-scheduler-for-linux-makes-decisions-based-on-planetary-positions-and-zodiac-signs-sched-ext-framework-informed-by-lunar-phases-cosmic-weather-reports-and-dynamic-time-slicing

Why’s there still so many instances using vanilla mastodon when glitch-soc and chuckya are so much better?

Dear @… from what I am gathering from your comments elsewhere is that it is possible to block only the Bluesky part of the ATProto network from being bridged with @… and leave BlackSky and other independent AT instances? Could you go into detail on on a procedure for that? This could be a powerful pro-federation response in addition to making a statement on ICE and Bluesky.
#ice #bluesky #fediblock #fediverse #mastodon