<p>If you run your own Mastodon server and wondering how to manage storage, there's a useful video by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@fedihost" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fedihost</span></a></span> about it:</p><p>🌱 <a href="https://video.fedihost.co/w/caYDRrcGDTpy7yLxBKHqzu" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="video.fedihost.co/w/caYDRrcGDTpy7yLxBKHqzu"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">video.fedihost.co/w/caYDRrcGDT</span><span class="invisible">py7yLxBKHqzu</span></a></p><p>They have also made lots of other useful tutorial videos about hosting your own Fediverse server:</p><p>🌱 <a href="https://video.fedihost.co/c/tutorials/videos" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="video.fedihost.co/c/tutorials/videos"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">video.fedihost.co/c/tutorials/</span><span class="invisible">videos</span></a></p><p>The videos cover Mastodon, PeerTube and GoToSocial 🙂 </p><p><a href="/tags/fediadmin/" rel="tag">#FediAdmin</a> <a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#MastoAdmin</a></p>
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<p>Mastodon server admins, important news!</p><p>The Mastodon developers are going to stop suggesting mastodon.social as a "default server".</p><p>Instead, the "default" server suggestions are going to be ones for a user's language and/or geographical location.</p><p>If you run a public server that fulfils these criteria:</p><p>- Running vanilla Mastodon<br>- Mastodon Covenant compliant<br>- Have existed for 1+ year<br>- Have shut-down & disaster plans</p><p>...then see this post for details: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989802617165343" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989802617165343"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@Mastodon/1159</span><span class="invisible">89802617165343</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#MastoAdmin</a></p>
Edited 65d ago
<p>We’re happy to announce that Mastodon 4.5 is now ready for prime time! Quote posts, async fetching of replies, server timeline visibility settings, more moderation tools, and lots and lots of other tweaks and improvements.</p><p>Announcement on our blog: <a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/</span><span class="invisible">mastodon-4.5/</span></a></p><p>Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page: <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r</span><span class="invisible">eleases/tag/v4.5.0</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#mastoadmin</a></p>
<p>Welcome to MastodonBD!</p><p>While our primary focus is Bangladesh - its people, culture, technology, and public discourse - the instance is open to everyone, regardless of location. We encourage respectful dialogue, diverse perspectives, and meaningful connections across borders.</p><p>If you believe in open social networks and constructive conversation, you are welcome here.</p><p>Let’s build this space thoughtfully, together.</p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#mastoadmin</a> <a href="/tags/bangladesh/" rel="tag">#bangladesh</a> <a href="/tags/dhaka/" rel="tag">#dhaka</a> <a href="/tags/asia/" rel="tag">#asia</a></p>
<p>Just a quick note for <a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#MastoAdmin</a> 's using the <a href="/tags/universeodon/" rel="tag">#Universeodon</a> Relay. </p><p>The relay is one of the last things to get moved now onto our new infrastructure, I'm about to start making the configuration changes and DNS updates which will mean our new load balancer infrastructure will start to serve requests for the relay as well as finally supporting IPv6 properly. </p><p>Later today I will then need to migrate the relay DB and config onto a new server so there will be a short outage later on to the relay while I do this.</p>
<p>[SOLVED] đź‘Ť<br><br>Hi <a href="/tags/mastoadmins/" rel="tag">#mastoAdmins</a> <br><br>I'm trying to help a friend out with his Mastodon instance. An upgrade went badly wrong and mastodon would not restart. <br><br>We've rebuilt the server using backups and the server is up and running. It is federating. However no one can login. <br><br>If I enable debugging log i get the following for a log attempt in the system logs<br><p>Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2) for 127.0.0.1:389):Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075]Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/models/concerns/user/ldap_authenticable.rb:11:in 'User::LdapAuthenticable::ClassMethods#authenticate_with_ldap'Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:69:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user_from_params'Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/auth/sessions_controller.rb:62:in 'Auth::SessionsController#find_user'Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] app/controllers/concerns/auth/two_factor_authentication_concern.rb:12:in 'Auth::TwoFactorAuthenticationConcern#two_factor_enabled?'Mar 14 18:47:50 debian-s2-2 bundle[13675]: [0e4f20e2-6069-47ee-8678-e4db5247e075] lib/mastodon/middleware/socket_cleanup.rb:11:in 'Mastodon::Middleware::SocketCleanup#call'</p><br>API calls are working. Just the Web logins that are failing.<br><br>Any help much appreciated<br><br><a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#mastoadmin</a> <a href="/tags/mastodonadmin/" rel="tag">#mastodonadmin</a></p>
Edited 22d ago
<p>Hey guys, you read my troubles with developing an ActivityPub / Mastodon multibot instance yesterday? Well, I got it working in the end and have already migrated four bots and added another two to it.</p><p>And here is the code that I open source now:<br><a href="https://github.com/nekromoff/mastodon-bots" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/nekromoff/mastodon-bots"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/nekromoff/mastodon-</span><span class="invisible">bots</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/webdev/" rel="tag">#webdev</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#mastoadmin</a> <a href="/tags/bots/" rel="tag">#bots</a> <a href="/tags/bot/" rel="tag">#bot</a> <a href="/tags/instance/" rel="tag">#instance</a> <a href="/tags/php/" rel="tag">#php</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a> <a href="/tags/mastolivre/" rel="tag">#mastoLivre</a> <a href="/tags/webdevelopment/" rel="tag">#webdevelopment</a></p>
Edited 13d ago
<p>I've sent some replies to those I can still see posting here on <a href="/tags/medmastodon/" rel="tag">#MedMastodon</a> but as a reminder. </p><p>Med-Mastodon will be closing down at the end of this month. Those that are active here, please see our e-mail from March 1st or the announcement in the web interface for more information and some suggestions on alternative servers to move to. </p><p>From April 1st 2026 the site will not be available and any content not migrated before then will be permanently lost.</p><p><a href="/tags/migration/" rel="tag">#Migration</a> <a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#MastoAdmin</a> <a href="/tags/serverclosure/" rel="tag">#ServerClosure</a></p>
Edited 11d ago
<p>Just finished optimizing and checking things after being away from this machine in particular for a while. Our server stack could theoretically handle 5k more registered users and about 1500-2000 monthly active users before we'd need to start thinking about scaling up.</p><p>Right now, we have 889 users and around 410 monthly active ones and we're running at roughly 25-30% capacity. Plenty of space to grow. </p><p>We're federating with nearly 42000 other servers, which is actually the heaviest part of running an instance, not the local users. Every boost, reply, and follow across the fediverse adds work for our servers.</p><p>It was never my intention to grow this server this much or even have this many users, but now we have regular people, authors, political parties, organizations, YouTubers, and more. I'm still amazed about this. Yet I'm keeping a low profile because, even though we have our own admin team, at the end of the day this is still my hobby project organized by me and my wife. </p><p>That said, I've done my best to keep things as flexible as possible, and our finances are stable. I'm really glad my "hobby project" has brought so much joy to so many people.</p><p>If you know someone looking for a Mastodon home, we've got room 🏠</p><p><a href="/tags/mementomorisocial/" rel="tag">#MementoMoriSocial</a> <a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#MastoAdmin</a></p>