Show threadFLOSS.social 36m ago

 N.B. Current practice for this server's moderation is to, upon discovery, consider use of large language models (LLMs) as presumptive network abuse, absent other mitigating evidence. We encourage everyone to report such usage accordingly and encourage other server operators to take a similar view.

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FLOSS.social 46m ago

👀 FYI: Effective this month, our IP blocks for Anthropic & OpenAI network spaces have been refreshed and updated to minimize those organisations' abilities to interact with content posted here. Please continue to report any cases of susptected network abuse for review and action.

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Fossie1h ago

Guten Abend!

Alle Fediverse Foundation Instanzen wurden soeben auf Mastodon v4.5.8 aktualisiert.

Details dazu gibt es hier:
* https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.8

PS: bitte wie immer Browser mit Ctrl+Shift+R neu laden, damit die Webkomponenten aktualisiert werden.

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#MastoAdmin
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Release v4.5.8 · mastodon/mastodon

Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrad...

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Show threaddusoft2h ago
@evan Wait, what? If I follow hashtags on one instance, I only see stuff from that instance? Something is rotten in the state of Denm... Eh, Mastodon. #mastodon #mastoadmin #mastolivre #masto
Show threadMichael3h ago

@mastodonlgbt @alxhu Just so you know: When they released the trademark policy they made statements saying that they would permit instances that use the mastodon name in good faith and predated the policy.

I'm not aware of a change of that position since.

My own instance use mstdn in the url (IIRC also covered by the trademark) and based on this statement I am keeping my instance up.

May @andypiper can advise?

#mastoadmin

Leafy, Kylie, Skye 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️3h ago

RE: https://mastodon.lgbt/@mastodonlgbt/116318629726348167

I will shut down mastodon.lgbt in about two weeks.

This instance (greifswald.lgbt) is NOT affected.

#instanceshutdown #mastoadmin #mastodon

mastodon.lgbt-Administration4h ago

This instance will be shut down on 2026-04-12 for legal reasons.

Why? I (@alxhu) came across the Mastodon Trademark Guidelines about one month ago, which prophibit the usage of the Mastodon wordmark in the domain name without written permission by the Mastodon GmbH.

When I created this instance, I didn't knew this. I immediatly asked for permission but didn't recieve an answer (even after messaging multiple times again), so I assume the answer is no

#instanceshutdown #mastoadmin #mastodon

Meerjungfrauengrotte5h ago

Ich habe die Mastodon+glitch-Instanz der Meerjungfrauengrotte auf den neuesten Stand gebracht.

Dabei kam es bereits zum zweiten Mal während eines Updates zu einem Problem: PostgreSQL ist offenbar plötzlich gestorben.

Jedenfalls beschwerte sich der Update-Prozess beim Befehl SKIP_POST_DEPLOYMENT_MIGRATIONS=true RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails db:migrate über connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: No such file or directory (PG::ConnectionBad).

Tatsächlich fehlt die Datei.

systemctl status postgres zeigt keine Fehler.

Ein systemctl restart postgres behebt den Fehler, die fehlende Datei ist wieder vorhanden, danach kann ich das Update abschließen.

Ziemlich eigenartig...

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Thomas R. 5h ago

Hi Mastodon-Admins,

I'm the admin of an instance running on v4.3.21 and would like to upgrade to v4.5.0. In the 4.5.0 release notes I can see the update steps for v4.4.8.

Is there any chance I can update directly from v4.3.21 to v4.4.8 or do I have to sequentially update through all the minor releases v4.4.0-v4.4.8?

#mastoadmins #mastoadmin #sysadmins

Show threadMichael9h ago

@gubi @paul @maddad @mastodonmigration @chad Preventing known AI scrapers is easy as #mastoadmin: Just block the User Agent (in this case Zeitgeist/1.0 (social feed summarizer; https://github.com/seldo/zeitgeist)).

(see https://github.com/seldo/zeitgeist/blob/57e5bd5f012be31c90df1602de37d8b4e7aa143b/lib/mastodon.ts#L1 for source)

For unknown ones it's much harder ...