Mastodawn

Now, I'm mainly going by anecdotal evidence of this happening, but it definitely feels like it comes up often enough when people discuss giving up on the fediverse, or not being interested in joining.

And I get the need for a mechanism for deleting potentially illegal content. That makes sense, definitely important.

But maybe it's worth opening a conversation on how to better address this, because "here's a list of followers and follows you lost, good luck" is not a great solution.

Maybe after there's a way to migrate and bring your posting history, if and whenever Mastodon supports that.

#fediverse #mastodon #FediMeta #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #DomainBlocks

Stefan Bohacek 3d ago

Heads-up to fediverse admins, Bluesky is having a bad day, in case you see dormant accounts coming back to life.

https://status.bsky.app

#bluesky #BlueskyOutage #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins

Bluesky

🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉5d ago

@verifnortif2 Beware folks appearently #scammers are again around #mods #mastoadmins

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Ashwin Dixit 6d ago

@jorijn

Actually, I moved here ( defcon.social ) and I'm trying to fully migrate to this account.

However, @admin ( noc.social ) is being a c*nt, and not letting migrate my contacts to ( defcon.social )

It's been several weeks, of me trying to contact them, but they're just being a b*tch for some reason. 😆

#Fediverse #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

#MastoAdmins , please take note of this Fediverse pitfall.
Maybe defederate noc.social which seems to be acting maliciously towards me?

Stefan Bohacek Apr 6

Share this with your server admins!

"We’re seeking operators, moderators and administrators of Fediverse sites, from the smallest to the largest, to fill out the anonymous survey and share information about how their instances work."

https://socialweb.limesurvey.net/256253

via https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/04/06/fediverse-sustainability-survey/

#fediverse #FediverseAdmins #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #FediverseSustainability #FediverseSustainabilitySurvey

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Thomas R.

Mar 30

--> SOLVED <--

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

George B Mar 26

#MastoAdmins we just had an attempted sign up with the username "fediblock" that looks like a new attempt at the mastodon verification scam so be on the lookout

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Chewie Mar 24

@MastodonEngineering

#Mastoadmins, anyone know what "bundle lock --normalize-platforms" actually does, and it is a problem?

I was advised to do this during the "bundle install" process (which I did), to fix a problem with "nokogiri-1.19.2-x86_64-linux-gnu", but I don't know why I need to do it.

#MastoAdmin

Bumble Mar 14

[SOLVED] 👍

Hi #mastoAdmins

I'm trying to help a friend out with his Mastodon instance. An upgrade went badly wrong and mastodon would not restart.

We've rebuilt the server using backups and the server is up and running. It is federating. However no one can login.

If I enable debugging log i get the following for a log attempt in the system logs

Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2) for 127.0.0.1:389):
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075]
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/models/concerns/user/ldap_authenticable.rb:11:in 'User::LdapAuthenticable::ClassMethods#authenticate_with_ldap'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:69:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user_from_params'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:62:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/concerns/auth/two_factor_authentication_concern.rb:12:in 'Auth::TwoFactorAuthenticationConcern#two_factor_enabled?'
Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] lib/mastodon/middleware/socket_cleanup.rb:11:in 'Mastodon::Middleware::SocketCleanup#call'

API calls are working. Just the Web logins that are failing.

Any help much appreciated

#mastoadmin #mastodonadmin

Serpkah 🌱Mar 13

#mastoadmins habt ihr gerade auch so Probleme wieder mit spam bots die sich auf eurer geschlossenen Instanz anmelden wollen oder hamse mich gerade einfach ausgesucht atm?