Brownian_motionFeb 6, 2024
Reminder to Thank your instance #admins for watching out for things. @trumpet is running this one and I'm very happy. Logged in today from a new, private browser and had an email on system almost instantly telling me my account had been accessed from a new IP address. #mastodon #adminsofmastodon
Vampiric slime kitty Melody Nov 27, 2023
Hey #moderators, #admins and #adminsofmastodon, what moderation features does your instance have that you like? What would you like them to have? What would be some cool ideas?
Asking since I'm currently collecting feature ideas and targets for Linstrom, a new fedi server software I have started working on, with the primary target being to help with user safety and easy moderation.

Others are welcome to reply too and boosts are appreciated as I'd like to reach people on as many different systems as possible
Rafa de CastroApr 12, 2023
BTW I broke everything again in the update process :D #AdminsOfMastodon
Rafa de CastroMar 30, 2023

I have to be careful with the accounting of the mastodon server. A Prometheus exporter monitors how many files I have and how much storage I use. I checked the implementation and looks like every time it has to count does a couple of dozen calls. Then I calculated it very frequently and spent 20$ in a couple of minutes on API calls. :D

#AdminsOfMastodon

Lauren☁️ Rehletzi🌴Mar 30, 2023
Hello #Mastodon #mastodonadmins #adminsofmastodon. Does anyone know why I can not see someones followers? Thank you
Rafa de CastroMar 16, 2023
God bless automatic restore of backups as a check that your backups are correct. I was messing up my instance backups #AdminsOfMastodon
Sean Whalen πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ¦ΌπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ•ŠοΈFeb 18, 2023

It occurred to me that many, if not most #Mastodon instances are run by one person who maintains the server infrastructure (not just an admin Mastodon account). That leaves large chunks of the fediverse with a Bus Factor of 1, meaning if that one owner was suddenly hit by a bus and died, there would be no one left to maintain an instance.

Ideally, an instance should have at least two trusted people in geographically separate areas who can maintain the server infrastructure.

Please boost this post and tag your instance admin in a reply to see how they are mitigating this risk.

cc: @jerry @stux

#Mastodon #AdminsOfMastodon #RiskManagement #DisasterRecovery #InfoSec

Bus factor - Wikipedia

Rafa de CastroFeb 16, 2023

I will eventually open registrations for evilmeow.com once I feel a bit more comfortable.

I will do it with the long term thinking of maintaining this for long but it is impossible to commit to something forever. The best I can say is that if I ever think that I cannot manage it I'll be more than happy to pass the keys to someone else.

That is also the reason not to reuse the domain for more stuff.

#AdminsOfMastodon

Sean Whalen πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ¦ΌπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ•ŠοΈJan 11, 2023

Hi everyone, I just released version 1.1.1 of my #Mastodon #DMARC Survey tool, updated survey results, and additional documentation. This release adds a DNSSEC check and SPF record validation. Error and warning fields are now included in the CSV for easy troubleshooting. This is to help administrators configure DMARC to help prevent attackers from spoofing a domain.

Even if you looked at the results from last Friday, it's worth taking a look at these new results.

https://github.com/seanthegeek/mastodon-dmarc-survey

#Infosec #InformationSecuriy #phish #phishing #spoofing #adminsofmastodon #OpenSource #OpenSourceSoftware #FLOSS #Python #CLI #API

GitHub - seanthegeek/mastodon-dmarc-survey: A survey of DMARC deployment across all domains hosting public a Mastodon instance

A survey of DMARC deployment across all domains hosting public a Mastodon instance - GitHub - seanthegeek/mastodon-dmarc-survey: A survey of DMARC deployment across all domains hosting public a Mas...

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Carl HeathJan 7, 2023
I seem to have had some hickups when updating #mastodon and now in not sure im seeing all toots. Feels very quiet in the Fediverse this morning. #mastodonadmin #adminsofmastodon