This is a notice that we will be hosting our Spring 2026 State of the Instance on Sunday, March 22, 2026, at 3 PM MDT (9:00PM UTC)

We will be hosting this meeting on Jitsi and will be open to Mastodon Canada members only. You will receive an email at the address registered to your account in the coming days with a link to our private meeting.

#mstdnca

https://news.mstdn.ca/state-of-the-instance-spring-2026/

This has been such a game-changer for me.

Our new custom-developed back-end hooks into all our resources and provides a holistic view of our infrastructure in a single pane of glass. We can dig into each service and application for troubleshooting and analysis, but the biggest feature is that it pushes a notification when new updates are available.

This way, I'm not logging into each asset individually; I just say "yup, looks good, update," and it does it.

Years saved off my life.

I'll share more about this tool during our upcoming Spring State of the Instance, of which the date will be announced this upcoming week.

And yes, I will be offering the repo for others to fork and use when I'm comfortable doing so. It's very custom-tailored to our infrastructure, but I'm sure many aspects can be reused.

#MastoAdmin #mstdnca

Dear Canadians : C-15 needs to be amended before being ratified, and this is our last chance. Giving politicians the right to suspend federal laws at the behest of lobbyists to avoid environmental regulations, indigenous rights and agreements, etc.. (rhe so-called Henry the Eighth clause) is a horrifying step past the reasonable limits on government actions, and moves us perilously close to an autocracy. Take a moment to let your senator know you oppose this? And want them to take action time is short, so please share and boost widely and loudly

https://nwmd.social/s/copylink/4AKAZkGLeu_LxbWEn-A=/b

#Canada #CDNPoli #CanPoli #Ottawa #MSTDNCA

⚠️ Hey Mastodonauts, there's a new scam afoot. ⚠️

Do not click links in DMs from accounts you don't recognize.

Please continue to report these accounts.

#mstdnca #mastoadmin @FediTips

So - I started work on moving our big database off of the cloud at around 11PM MST. It took some time to pull down that 450GB database, and it took a little longer than expected to restore that backup into our new database. As a result, our maintenance window was extended by three hours.

Once restored, we worked through some performance issues. This was expected as while we can test lots of things in a vacuum, sometimes without the real world load it's tough to know what to expect.

Once those performance tweaks were made, I saw some immediate improvement and we're now back and even better than before.

We're still working through the backlog of activity from the fediverse that we missed while we were down. It will probably take a few hours to catch up, so you'll see statuses from an hour or so ago popping up late. We're moving in the positive direction on this!

I've been looking forward to writing this for a long time: WE ARE FINALLY COMPLETELY OFF THE CLOUD. 🥳

#mstdnca #MastoAdmin

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@announcements/116118557878895498

Fam I'm realy excited about doing this tonight. As many know, it's been a long, long, long time coming.

This is going to save us hundreds of dollars a month and all indications say we're ready and prepared for this move.

Despite the confidence, we're taking all precautions to protect our lifeblood database. If there's any indication of error, we will work to mitigate it during the downtime or will roll back.

We have every protection in place and my number one concern is making sure that we protect the integrity of our community.

If you want real time updates, join our Discord: https://discord.gg/tym8jVYM

(We will be moving away from Discord when we have the appropriate option figured out)

#mstdnca

Mastodon Canada will be taking a full and complete downtime to migrate our 450 GB database from the cloud to our servers.

We're reserving four hours for this work; we don't expect to use the entire time.

This is also a heads up to other #MastoAdmin that we may fill up your Sidekiq retry queues during this time.

Updates will be provided here as they become available: https://status.mstdn.ca/maintenance/831038

#mstdnca

Hey #mstdnca Mastodonauts - we received our package yesterday afternoon, which I expected to contain two M.2 SSD drives.

I opened it this morning to find only one.

I've emailed the merchant, but obviously, this prevents us from moving the database until we have both. The database must be on a mirrored pair of drives. It's too important not to.

AI is making these drives sparse, so fingers crossed I'm just missing a tracking number.

#MastoAdmin