Admin and moderator of a small Mastodon instance. For anything related to that or the operations of the instance, please contact @theadmin instead of this account.
Don't mind if my own posts are searchable on https://tootfinder.ch, but my views are not representative of others.
I accidentally got a shot of Sunny and I with the same look on our faces
In the past few weeks there has been a bot farm hammering small Mastodon instances with requests for what looks like emoji-related assets and the hashtag API.
More specifically, it appears this bot farm has now come for my Mastodon instance, because the number of requests has doubled in the last 24 hours, with a lot of the requests being API requests for a single JSON file.
Even more specifically, looking at data provided by my CDN provider, a lot of the bots appear to be using IP addresses associated with Tencent Singapore.
Reaching out to anyone who configured their DNS transport protocol. If you intentionally configured your home router's or your devices DNS service, what did you pick, and why?
Please retoot for reach.
#DNS #Survey #AskMastodon #AskFedi #AskInfosec #DoT #DoH #DoQ #TLS #QUIC #TCP #UDP #HTTPS
That was slightly more drama updating to Mastodon v4.5.0 than I wanted.
The OS restarted while the database migration was in progress so I had to restore the database from backups.
Except this took some time because of the size of the database and the fact that the backup software I have for the #PostgreSQL server needs to rewrite the entire database to restore older versions.
Big news! 🎉
Loops federation is working beautifully!
Want proof?
Search this URL in your fediverse app and check out the comment/mention threading in action:
https://getloops.social/v/azWp4zwJ05?rid=bfGf2EgZ21
Spread the word, the fediverse now has an open source TikTok alternative that is truly decentralized.
⚠️ Important headsup if you are on the server mastodon.cloud:
Mastodon.cloud no longer seems to be moderated. Its admin account hasn't posted since Feb 2023, its code of conduct is blank and there are vile racists posting from there. The racists have been reported many times but their accounts are still active.
Because of this, other server admins are starting to block mastodon.cloud completely.
If you're on mastodon.cloud you might want to move to another server ASAP: https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
So now according to Cloudflare, Perplexity will try to bypass attempts to block it from accessing websites. If people don’t want AI on their website, they don’t want AI on their website. https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/
Jason Pettus 
Max Resing
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Coffeedate with ADHD
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Fedi.Tips
