🚨 Mastodon Support Scam 🚨

It looks like there's another wave of fake Mastodon support accounts asking you to verify your account.

Do NOT click on any links in these posts. Please report them to your server admin as soon as possible.

Please boost so that as many people can be aware of this as possible. Thank you! 💙 ☁️

#FediAdmin#MastoAdmin#MastodonSupport#Scam#Moderation#Report#Mastodon

🚨 Mastodon Support Scam 🚨

It looks like there's another wave of fake Mastodon support accounts asking you to verify your account.

Do NOT click on any links in these posts. Please report them to your server admin as soon as possible.

Please boost so that as many people can be aware of this as possible. Thank you! 💙 ☁️

#FediAdmin#MastoAdmin#MastodonSupport#Scam#Moderation#Report#Mastodon

It seems that community.nodebb.org is under a DDoS attack at the moment. We have enabled CloudFlare's "under attack" mode which has stopped the attack but it also has the unfortunate side effect of blocking all incoming ActivityPub traffic as well.

Interesting side effect. Will continue to monitor.

#fediadmin #cloudflare #ddos #nodebb

It seems that community.nodebb.org is under a DDoS attack at the moment. We have enabled CloudFlare's "under attack" mode which has stopped the attack but it also has the unfortunate side effect of blocking all incoming ActivityPub traffic as well.

Interesting side effect. Will continue to monitor.

#fediadmin #cloudflare #ddos #nodebb

It seems my instance has become so popular, so the crawlers DoSed it a couple of times today. I really need something like Anubis very badly. That would be the most wanted feature in the next version of #GtS

#FediAdmin #Gotosocial

The 2025 Fediverse Needs Assessment is open! If you run or moderate an online community, your feedback will guide the tools, training, and resources we focus on next year. See https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/ for details

#Fedimods#Moderators#FediAdmin#Moderation
http://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment

Dumb question that I was always too afraid to ask:

I know how the #Fediverse and its federation works. It's intuitive and familiar to me; I mean, I even host my own instance.

But I never understood how interaction cross-software is supposed to work. In theory, I can use whatever #ActivityPub software I want and still interact with everyone else. But in practice that just... isn't the case, right?

I mean, for text it's quite simple: I write a short post on #Mastodon and people on #GoToSocial or #Misskey or whatever can see and read that same post and interact with it. They can see my profile and it appears on their instance in their style and with their features.

Even outside of microblogging I still get it. A super-long post on #Friendica or #Diaspora appears on my timeline, too. Their profiles might have more fields than I can see here, but that's fine.

But what's up beyond that?

I can see #Pixelfed posts here, converted into image galleries. But what about the other way 'round? If someone on Pixelfed follows my Mastodon account, they can't see any of my non-image posts, right?

What about #PeerTube and such niche software? I guess I could follow a PeerTube account as a microblogger and see their videos and descriptions in my timeline. Video comments are replies.

But the other way 'round? How are they supposed to interact with Friendica or Pixelfed users? PeerTube doesn't even have a "timeline".

Doesn't that feature disparity undermine the whole idea of the #Fediverse or am I missing something?

#AskFedi #FediAdmin

Dumb question that I was always too afraid to ask:

I know how the #Fediverse and its federation works. It's intuitive and familiar to me; I mean, I even host my own instance.

But I never understood how interaction cross-software is supposed to work. In theory, I can use whatever #ActivityPub software I want and still interact with everyone else. But in practice that just... isn't the case, right?

I mean, for text it's quite simple: I write a short post on #Mastodon and people on #GoToSocial or #Misskey or whatever can see and read that same post and interact with it. They can see my profile and it appears on their instance in their style and with their features.

Even outside of microblogging I still get it. A super-long post on #Friendica or #Diaspora appears on my timeline, too. Their profiles might have more fields than I can see here, but that's fine.

But what's up beyond that?

I can see #Pixelfed posts here, converted into image galleries. But what about the other way 'round? If someone on Pixelfed follows my Mastodon account, they can't see any of my non-image posts, right?

What about #PeerTube and such niche software? I guess I could follow a PeerTube account as a microblogger and see their videos and descriptions in my timeline. Video comments are replies.

But the other way 'round? How are they supposed to interact with Friendica or Pixelfed users? PeerTube doesn't even have a "timeline".

Doesn't that feature disparity undermine the whole idea of the #Fediverse or am I missing something?

#AskFedi #FediAdmin

PSA for Misskey/fork admins: Misskey relies on Redis for long-term data storage. It is not just a caching solution, and wiping redis will result in permanent data loss.

This is contrary to most guides and documentation regarding redis, because Misskey is actually using it wrong. But unfortunately, lots of data is only stored in Redis with no way to re-create it from Postgres:

• All notifications
• Most timelines, if Fanout Timelines is enabled
• Charts and graphs
• Federation jobs, including delayed / scheduled jobs
• Antennas (they "reset" and lose all posts)
• User lists (they "reset" and lose all posts)
• Trending hashtags / notes
• Reversi games
• WebAuthn
• User profiles (specifically the list of posts)

If you ever lose or rollback your Redis cluster, then all of the above will be impacted. So please take regular backups!

#FediAdmin #Misskey #MisskeyAdmins #Sharkey #SharkeyAdmins #PSA

PSA for Misskey/fork admins: Misskey relies on Redis for long-term data storage. It is not just a caching solution, and wiping redis will result in permanent data loss.

This is contrary to most guides and documentation regarding redis, because Misskey is actually using it wrong. But unfortunately, lots of data is only stored in Redis with no way to re-create it from Postgres:

• All notifications
• Most timelines, if Fanout Timelines is enabled
• Charts and graphs
• Federation jobs, including delayed / scheduled jobs
• Antennas (they "reset" and lose all posts)
• User lists (they "reset" and lose all posts)
• Trending hashtags / notes
• Reversi games
• WebAuthn
• User profiles (specifically the list of posts)

If you ever lose or rollback your Redis cluster, then all of the above will be impacted. So please take regular backups!

#FediAdmin #Misskey #MisskeyAdmins #Sharkey #SharkeyAdmins #PSA

The 2025 Fediverse Needs Assessment is open! If you run or moderate an online community, your feedback will guide the tools, training, and resources we focus on next year. See https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/ for details

#Fedimods#Moderators#FediAdmin#Moderation
http://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment