where are people discussing the management of multiple fediverse servers as a cohesive thing?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1jmb8np

To follow on from yesterday's post, here is which accounts and posts most Fediverse servers can see:

https://fedi.tips/which-posts-and-accounts-can-i-see-from-my-server

Servers naturally see more of the Fediverse as their members follow accounts on other servers. If this is happening too slowly for you, there are also ways to more quickly increase the amount of accounts and posts your server can see:

https://fedi.tips/using-relays-to-quickly-expand-a-servers-view-of-the-fediverse

Are you using BunnyCDN? Here's a small tip that may not do much, but it can do something:

Go to one of your Pull Zones then select Edge Rules. Create a new one called "AI" or whatever you want to name it.

Then:

┌ Action: Block
├ Conditions: Request Header
├ Header name: User-Agent
└ Property:
├ *spider*
├ *ai*
├ *bot*
├ *crawler*
└ *gpt*

Save and check a few days later to see the usage graphs going down.

Are you using BunnyCDN? Here's a small tip that may not do much, but it can do something:

Go to one of your Pull Zones then select Edge Rules. Create a new one called "AI" or whatever you want to name it.

Then:

┌ Action: Block
├ Conditions: Request Header
├ Header name: User-Agent
└ Property:
├ *spider*
├ *ai*
├ *bot*
├ *crawler**
└ *gpt*

Save and check a few days later to see the usage graphs going down.

Are you a club, co-operative, institution, business or other organisation that wants to run a Mastodon server?

If so, you might want to get to know the "roles" system in Mastodon's administrative tools. This is an extremely useful and flexible way of assigning titles and powers to anyone on your server. It also includes an (optional) hierarchy which makes cases of disagreement easier to resolve.

You can find out more info about it at:

https://fedi.tips/how-can-organisations-or-groups-run-a-mastodon-server

New post: How to create a Mastodon user sitemap.xml

https://ricard.dev/how-to-create-a-mastodon-user-sitemap-xml/

#MastoAdmin

I'm getting this from time to time, restarting services doesn't help and I end up restarting the server

Any idea what's wrong I thought the streaming service went to port 4000 (at least that's how it's configured)

"failed (111: Unknown error) while connecting to upstream"

"POST /inbox HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3000/inbox"

#MastoAdmin

I'm about to migrate my single-user instance to another VPS

Any tips or guides on how-to before I deep dive (no docker)

Thinking about migrating my #VPS from #Linode to #netcup

I have already Linode in a German datacenter, so that wouldn't change.

The cost though... netcup is half the price for double the specs

I would not only be hosting a Mastodon instance but 10 other small websites (as I currently do on Linode).

Thoughts

https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php

Improving Mastodon’s disk usage

Updated: I've added a snippet to re-compress images if you're not a fan of deleting the entire cache (avatar/header) folder.

https://ricard.dev/improving-mastodons-disk-usage/

@cjgammon you could host your own single-user instance and federate with the rest

@beasts interesting! Upgrading my single-user instance to 4.0.2 didn't make any improvements

@admin Thank you for hosting it! Just added it to my instance

Are the approvals manual?

@gersande Thank you for sharing your experience with your single-user instance

I'm on #Linode which is practically the same specs as #DigitalOcean and I'm waiting for to trigger that sweet object storage. Not sure about all the changes needed in the config for #Mastodon to store the cached attachments and account media in a object storage

https://gersande.com/blog/i-spun-up-a-mastodon-instance-and-i-cant-believe-it-works/

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

@noracodes Thank you for sharing, Nora!

My single-user instance runs great unless I add one too many relays will try to play with your recommendations

Successfully upgraded my single-user #Mastodon instance to the latest v4.0.2

#Mastodon v4.0.0 is here

The changelog is long

Will you upgrade soon or wait a little?

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0

@csolisr @robertwgehl

Thanks Carlos, just the one about trying to figure out how to reduce remove images (avatars & headers)

https://ricard.dev/improving-mastodons-disk-usage/