New scam is surfacing on Bluesky, which means it will arrive here soon.

It works by telling you they have information about someone impersonating you, but for thin bogus reasons, you need to contact them on Discord. This is a scam.

Helloooo,
2 ème post où je reçois ce message.
Compte créé le jour même, c'est un spam.
Ils semblent apparaître lorsque je publie des images plus dénudées On se croirait sur fb
NE PAS CLIQUER SUR LE LIEN. !!!
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Well I don't know what happened, but leaving my server alone overnight has caused the sidekiq charts to start working again

Sorry ppl I was without networking in the Rockies. Found 1 minute WiFi to restart services. #mastoadmin

Lately this instance has been more and more expensive to maintain (db/files only grow), Patreon income hasn't kept up, and my personal enjoyment of it has gone down (uspol doesn't help one bit). I really don't want to just kill it, but I'm not sure what options I have.

Ideas:

A. well, kill it completely
B. enable the thing where semi-old posts gets nuked regularly (not a permanent solution)
C. transfer to someone else to own and host it

We've successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.5.0-alpha.1+mementomods-2025-08-02.

This update includes the latest build, so everything should be as up to date as possible.

As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please let me or any of the other admins know.

Enjoy your time here! Feel free to message me if you have any questions or thoughts.

Excellent panel about what’s next for the federated technology and innovation.

I've been seeing "Nothing is trending right now. Check back later!" lately a lot on Mastodon nightly v4.5.0-alpha.1-2025-07-26. Refresh fixes it. Very frustrating. I wonder what causes it.

Server upgrade coming probably mid-August. The current server is just barely able to keep up with the growing load.

This will cost more. Contributions are greatly appreciated: https://hcb.hackclub.com/donations/start/econ

I currently cover most of the costs, and am willing to keep doing so, but it would be great if this could be more self-sustaining.

#mastoadmin !@admin

More tinkering has brought more problems, I really should stop all this

After a night of crunching my instance is caught up again. Turned out my ingress process had crashed or something after the v4.4.0 update 8 days ago. Should check my timeline a bit more often to detect things like that. Or build monitoring. :-) #mastoadmin

#mastoadmin After several days of downtime, I think we're back up.

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Has anyone ever run a tootctl accounts prune ("prune remote accounts that never interacted with local users") on an instance with a couple hundred local users?

Any unexpected side effects? I assume it will generate a lot of broken threads further back in history?

#Mastodon #mastoadmin Do I trust this? https://mas.to/@VerifyMastodonUsers/114949356543762577

Assortedflotsam.com successfully updated to Mastodon v4.4.2

Sorry for the delay, I was moving.

Hello everyone. Make sure you don’t click on the link in posts like these, they are fake accounts posting a legitimate accounts.

Please spread the word about these scammers.