We believe there should be warnings and information for people starting up Fediverse servers so people are aware what they’re signing up for and how to deal with things, along with improved documentation which centres the trust and safety aspect of running a server.
Do you think that would help new admins?
#MastoAdmin #FediAdmins #FediAdmin
10 days and no reboots to fix the preview images not showing up thing. I think the changes to resolv.conf and telling tailscale to ignore DNS have fixed it.
As usual with this sort of thing, it was a PEBKAC issue.
#fediadmin #mastoadmin
Do not send bullshit reports. I am so sick of bullshit reports from #fedi users trying to censor someone because they don't like what they post.
Just because you don't like the content someone posts, block them and move on. Bullshit reports like this waste my time.
It also means I'm more inclined to block the reporting instance from submitting any new reports in the future.
Hey Fedi admins that run public servers, do you want to get more members?
If you want to list your site on https://fedi.garden check your site is compatible at https://fedi.garden/about-this-site/ and then contact @FediGarden
If you want to list your site on https://joinmastodon.org/servers check your site is compatible at https://joinmastodon.org/covenant and follow the instructions in the section titled "Submitting your server".
Note that JoinMastodon only lists Mastodon / Mastodon fork servers.
Mastodon database was approaching 600mb, bit high for a single user instance. Found the command `tootctl accounts prune` which should remove any accounts that haven't been interacted with by any user (me).
34176 accounts removed.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#accounts-prune
"A year ago today, the Newsmast app launched in the Fediverse. Introducing curated communities on matters of public interest. From Politics to Photography. Black Voices to Biodiversity. Social Media to Sport."
The Newsmast Foundation co-founder @michael looks back at a year of progress and friendship - not only for the Newsmast app, but for our team.
https://www.blog-pat.ch/our-birthday/
#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #FediDev #FediAdmin #ThankYou
Project #Mastodon Extinction - #snac2
So in about an hour I have a working snac2 install it seems.
And @yvan@toot.malignity.net IS ALIVE!!
Murwahahahaaaahaarrrr...
But there's more to it as I want to migrate this account to the new one so I've got to test out that process next. A key thing thing is I also want it to host my whole yvan@toot.ale.gd history.
Then I can shut down this horrible, bloated, disgusting Mastodon instance and my VPS can breathe a sigh of relief.
Well, that's the plan.
Project #Mastodon Extinction - #snac2
OK! Right, a chown -R debian-snac:debian-snac /var/lib/snac2 fixes that and the systmctl restart works now...
I'll worry about emojis.json later, doesn't seem to be part of the upstream anyway.
I can now create a user and log in with the password... progress!
Project #Mastodon Extinction - #snac2
So alas it is less plain sailing from there. I cannot convince this config which seems to be in /var/lib/snac2/ that it doesn't want to be called "localhost".
In the end I delete /var/lib/snac2 and that remake it using 'snac init'.
But the systemctl restart is failing due to missing emojis.json.
But the 'snac2 httpd' command works.
So currently I am unconvinced by the Debian packaging for this.
Project #Mastodon Extinction
1. apt-get install snac2
Oh... well... that much "just worked" on my Debian 'bookworm' server.
Then I set up an nginx proxy service using this template: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/src/branch/master/examples/nginx-alpine-ssl/default.conf
But with all the SSL bits taken out, and set to my target server name, and then I used certbot in the usual way to configure the nginx SSL config.
Connect.
Yeah, that is bare bones alreet! LOL
Okay, so I realized I might have to clear away some cache. My s3 bucket for our mastodon instance is around 2 TB.
So I searched a bit and found out I can run something like:
tootctl media remove
tootctl preview_cards
This should probably clear up quite a bit.
I can of course use the --days switch and do:
tootctl media remove --days 365
just to be sure I won't mess thing up too much :)
Any other admins that can give me some feedback?
https://ricard.dev/improving-mastodons-disk-usage/