Hetzner is increasing prices across the board, so the server that Shakedown runs on is going to cost 38% more a month starting in April (~$67 -> $92.50)

think we may be able to drop down to a cheaper instance w/ less vCPU/RAM... I'll have to do some scheming

and yes - LLM companies and their investors are to blame for eating up all the computer hardware, but it's also because Hetzner is EU based and a lot of companies are rapidly moving away from US hosted tech and are signing up w/ Hetzner. smart move tbh, can't blame them

https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/

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#StateOfShakeDown PSA: I've defederated with all the domains I could find that copy content from Twitter/X. Long past due.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVA.fE7g.RA-YkJHe58eC&smid=nytcore-ios-share

sorry about that unplanned downtime Shakedown folks; was running some server updates I didn't expect to be eventful and crashed everything for an hour. back now!

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Shakedown folks (and only Shakedown folks please) - let's talk defederating with threads.net. Meta's recent policy changes explicitly allow homophobic, sexist and transphobic content https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338471/meta-hate-speech-hateful-conduct-policy-moderation

This makes their moderation policies directly contradictory to ours. Normally we'd handle this by blocking the server in question, and I don't see any reason why Threads would be different.

Does this move make sense to people? Any arguments for staying connected?

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It's the August 2024 #stateOfShakedown update! Later than usual since but it's for the best reasons - I went to a several shows the first half of this month. Also, procrastination. Let's speed run:

Stats for August 2024

- 417 active users (-24 Month over Month)
- 6 new users (+2 MoM)
- 24,893 interactions (+2,638 MoM)
- 3 reports resolved (-5 MoM)
- 686 GB of user uploads (+162 GB)
- 47 GB stored in the Postgres Database (-4.8 GB MoM) (1/3)

It's early in the month and I've been procrastinating. That's right, it's time for the monthly #stateOfShakedown update!

Let's roll.

It's later than usual since I was on vacation all of last week, chasing a toddler around the beach with a mezcal margarita in hand (jkjk unless…), but the time is nigh - our monthly #stateOfShakedown update!

First order of business - I just updated the server to Mastodon 4.2.10. No new features, but there are some security updates and bugfixes. Details here if you are curious: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.10

Stats for June 2024
- 393 active users (-31 Month over Month) (1/6)

It's early in the month and the stream is on set break so it's time for the monthly #stateOfShakedown update!

Today's agenda: stats, costs, donations, closing thoughts

Stats for May
- 361 active users (-63 Month over Month)
- 4 new users (+0 MoM)
- 15,487 interactions (-5,265 MoM)
- 1.06 TB of user uploads (+602 GB MoM)
- 42.5 GB stored in the Postgres database (+5.8 GB MoM)
- 1 TB of traffic served through Cloudflare (+0 MoM, 75% cached)

Costs for May… (1/4)

updated to mastodon 4.2.9! no new features but a good bunch of security and bug fixes

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.9

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PSA: Our storage provider (Backblaze B2) is having some issues on their end so images may be broken or flaky for a bit. From their status page:

“We are observing degraded performance. Downloads and uploads currently impacted. Remediation underway.”

https://status.backblaze.com

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