Tootfinder

I got this account that signs up over and over again with the display name:
KaJuan Marcell Horton
anyone else know what's up with that?
#mastoAdmin

Anyone know a reason to not find accounts that use a signup IP that is a known Tor exit node as a signal of being a bot?
I'm looking at IPs by doing: Query: <reversed-ip>.dnsel.torproject.org − resolves to 127.0.0.2 if it's a Tor exit.
#mastoadmin

Mastodon Admin self hosters who are installed on standard Debian!
Have you moved to Debian 13/Trixie?
#SelfHost #Debian #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

phpc.social is now running Mastodon 4.5.7, released about an hour and a half ago. #mastoadmin

you've convinced me.... (honestly,I just wanted to make sure nothing was going to blow up!)
upgrading in the background now….wish me luck!
#SelfHost #Debian #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

RE: #mastoadmin

#FediBlock @… - yet ANOTHER slop machine hooked up to a Fedi account. why do people keep doing this. what makes them think this is okay
#MastoAdmin

Peculiar; Facebook appears to be brute forcing registrations on my Mastodon instance. Weird.
Ok, have fun with this "small" 10MB gzip file that definitely doesn't contain 10GB worth of 0's if it's decompressed.
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

I've blocked mailpro.fun from creating accounts. Seem to be marked as a suspicious site by firefox and only spammers have signed up from that domain.
#mastoadmin

Just looking at the sidekiq stats to see how things cleared out. All in all, Not bad for a 2008 iMac.
#footiMac #Mastodon #Debian #Trixie #MastoAdmin #selfhost

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👉 #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Tech #CivicTech #fedidev

Mastodon 4.5.8 is now live on phpc.social, ~90 minutes after release. #mastoadmin

Not today!
#mastoAdmin

success! Upgraded #footiMac to Debian 13/Trixie and brought Mastodon along for the ride.
Had a few hiccups...
1) I upgraded elasticsearch and ended up having to clear out its cache files as it didn't want to 'upgrade' them itself.
2) postgresql 15 and 16 are still running in the background and needed new timezones in their configs.
3) Charlock_holmes ruby gem was unhappy (as noted in recent Mastodon release notes) and needed: bundle install --force to actually get it to install again.
4) libvibs is not happy either, so I turned it off in the config file. This seems to be an ongoing issue.
Once those things were found and fixed, it all came back up.
Phew! Wonder what else broke lol
#Mastodon #Debian #Trixie #MastoAdmin #selfhost

Auf kleineren Instanzen versuchen sich immer wieder irgendwelche Marketingfuzzis einzunisten, die dann von dort versuchen ihren Müll zu verbreiten. Erst sind sie auf größeren Instanzen unterwegs, werden dort vermutlich gesperrt und probieren es dann weiter. Erlebt ihr das eigentlich auch?
#mastodon #mastoadmin

Von Mastodon.cloud kommt gerade viel Nude Photo Spam. Weiblicher Vorname Zahl sind die Benutzernamen.
Die Beiträge sind alle gleich und haben eine .ru Adresse im Beitrag
Also obacht. #mastoAdmin #FediBlock

Do blocked email domains include subdomains of those emails?
#mastoadmin

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

Lot of new bot accounts are putting a single random emoji at the end of their display name in hope of blending in.
#mastoadmin

phpc.social is now running on Mastodon 4.5.9, released ~5.5 hours ago.
#mastoadmin

a lot of signups from subdomains of io.vn
is that a real place to get an email address? seems to probably be spammers.
#mastoadmin

fediblock seems like a good username to add to username blocks.
#mastoadmin