@rolle My selfhosted instance running list is:
@nicole34@expressional.social
@nicole53@chinanews.social
@nicole72@formu1a.social
@nicole82@mastodon.holeyfox.co
@nicole14@chinanews.social
@nicole79@toot.io
@nicole25@photodn.net
@nicole78@mstdn.ro
@nicole92@toot.fan
*It keeps coming back on Chinanews.social #FediverseChick #Spam #Fediblock #MastoAdmin .
The "spam wave" with the (now famous) Nicole account underlines how poor the moderation tools are on Mastodon. It's currently not possible to automatically quarantine such profiles… #mastoadmin #fediblock
Can we get rid of the Fediverse Chick already? This is starting to get on my nerves 
We have now successfully upgraded to v4.4.0-alpha.4+mementomods-2025-03-14 @mementomorisocial. This upgrade contains latest and newest version, including the security updates.
The branch is now synced and up-to-date and 66 changes ahead the last version which was v4.4.0-alpha.3+mementomods-2025-03-04.
We have enabled the new feature FETCH_REPLIES_ENABLED=true. This should greatly improve the fetching of new replies.
As usual, please tell me or our other admins about any strange things you may encounter with this Mastodon version. We're running bleeding edge after all.
I hope you enjoy your time here. Feel free to send me a message if you have anything in mind. 
On second thought:
Even calling this age ‘verification’ seems overly optimistic. There is no verification at all …
Hm. Looks like mastodon is gonna get some very basic age verification tools
I have a feeling that that in its current form without audit trail likely won’t suffice to really change anything for OSA compliance?
Successfully updated my instance’s host from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS.
Ran into a dependency issue after reboot, but ‘bundle install —force’ fixed it.
All is well. 
Upgraded procolix.social to mastodon 4.3.6 #mastoadmin
Trying to browse the #MastoAdmin hashtag because there was a new upgrade to see if anyone is having any issue with the upgrade or if it broke anything. Can't because everyone is using it to announce they upgraded. We need a new update tag, something like #mastoupdate for that
This is something various people have proposed in the past, esp a few months ago when there were several upgrades in a row after one upgrade broke systems.
It's hard to find out if admins are having problems with useless blabber. It's almost as bad as people who use the tag to talk to their end users.
Hey, MastoAdmins! I no longer receive emails from my server notifying me of new releases. Do you?
Hi #Admins 
,
Can you give me quotes that explain your fight against #AIScraping? I'm looking for (verbal) images, metaphors, comparisons, etc. that explain to non-techies what's going on. (efforts, goals, resources...)
I intend to publish your quotes in a text on @campact 's blog¹ (DE, German NGO).
The quotes should make your work
visible in a generally understandable way
Several people have asked me whether this makes FediFetcher obsolete. I thought I'd put out a more public response to this question:
Unfortunately I don't think I can retire FediFetcher just yet, as it still has some utility:
Firstly, FediFetcher can fetch context proactively without having to expand posts. (Eg one of my favourite features of FediFetcher is that it pro-actively pulls in replies to posts in my home timeline. I personally wouldn't really want to miss out on this.)
Secondly, FediFetcher can also backfill profiles - something that Mastodon is still unable to do, and, as far as I can tell, has no intention of implementing.
Thirdly, it'll likely still be a while until these changes are available in any released versions, and likely even longer until 3rd party apps have support for it.
I do hope it’s the beginning of the end of FediFetcher, but imo we are not there just yet!
Obviously other users of FediFetcher may have different opinions, and if - once this is released - you personally are happy with Mastodon's built in ‘on demand' context fetch, you should stop using FediFetcher to relieve pressure from your home instance.
Apparently i cant use elasticsearch to search up stuff under spesific hashtags (example has:media #beringseagold)
Looks like Mastodon is finally getting some built in functionality to fetch missing replies:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615
OMG the Mastodon issue about fetching whole conversation threads finally got completed after 7 years!
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9409#event-16708683816
Have any small instance admins switched over to glitch-soc? Thoughts?
I want markdown support & I'm tired of waiting for vanilla mastodon to get it together
curious of your experiences 
v4.1.24 
