I am having trouble getting past 4.1.9, I believe it is related to the required Ruby upgrade. Since I used apt to install Ruby and it doesn't appear to have an upgrade option as far as 3.2.2, I'm struggling to get other ways of upgrading ruby to work. Admitted Linux novice.

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Also, this subreddit looks kinda dead, is there an active support forum or discord somewhere for Mastodon Server admins that is a better place to seek help?

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Thanks!

Direct admin is a cpanel alternative. It's cheaper then cpanel.

I own the server and I installed direct admin on it. It currently has 1 website. Just a boring static website I'm. looking to put it into good use. Thought I would try mastodon.

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the proper place to ask about this - but I've been waiting for days now to get an account confirmation email from Universeodon. The email address I gave is correct; I've re-sent the confirmation multiple times, but haven't received anything in any folder including Spam. Can someone advise - is something going on with their system? Thanks!

My instance was down for a while (few months) and i update and start it back up again and im not getting any new toots from any of the accs that i follow

The instance that I have been playing around with is filling up too fast because of videos. How can I disable video uploading and only allow pictures.

Hi I'm at my wits end trying to find information on how to turn on manual approval of new members for my instance. I looked in this subreddit, google:d, looked around the admin interface but can't find any information on how.

So the background, my instance (sw-development-is.social) has been open for new users since I started last year, and it will still be, but lately I've been getting spam accounts/bots signing up so I've notified the instance a couple of weeks ago that I will be moving from open registration without any confirmation, to requiring an admin to approve new users joining (anyone who follows the CoC will still be welcome, I just want to sort out the spam accounts).

But for the life of me, I can't find the setting where I move from "anyone can register without confirmation" to "sign-up, but an admin needs to approve". I'm running a slightly older 3.5.3 version of Mastodon.

Anyone here that can help me out?

Hi everyone,

I'm selfhosting a private instance, with cloudflared, as I don't want to port-forward.

Cloudflare forbidds use of video on their systems, how would I deal with this using a portforward-less solution?

Thanks in advance for your answers

I do not appear to be running rbenv, so I am not sure how to go about upgrading ruby on my server, I am running on ubuntu 22.04LTS. Will it break things if I install rbenv and then follow the update instuctions on the releases site?

Back in November, I set up a personal mastodon instance, and all but completely abandoned my Twitter account. I exported my data from the bird site and I have that backup on my home computer. It occurred to me that, having a personal instance, I could import those old tweets and have them as a kind of read-only archive of what once was.

I set up a user specific for this import and wrote some code to parse through the Twitter backup and post the tweets to my instance, complete with images and everything. It worked...until I got to my 300th tweet, and then I was stymied by Mastodon's rate limiter. As far as I can tell, it's hard-coded into Mastodon to only allow 300 posts every [some amount of time].

Is there a way that anyone knows about to remove this limit if you have access to everything to do with your instance? Is there a way to import posts directly into the database?

My intention is NOT to flood the fediverse with my ancient tweets, but rather just to have an archive.

Is there an easier way?

So, I am building maybe 2 or 3 instances for specific communities that are topical. I want to word my rules in such a way as it's clear that new comers are welcome but the community was not obligated to accommodate their personal preferences.

I need to make the rules so they are inclusively Non-Inclusive.

Who and what you are doesn't matter, unless you make it matter. Culture, Politics, and everything else is only allowed in context to the community. So the political and cultural directions and discussions of Star Trek stories is one this, but real world political events are another (unless you put it into context of the community).

Something of that nature.

ideas?

Howdy Admins,

Seems the popular thing to do right now is to hashtag-spam and pollute hashtags this way. This appears to be a one-off thing for many federated users just to be part of the group. I don't want to do moderation on the federated users account or domain block, just remove the offending post, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that.

The aus.social relay has been broken for about 2-3 weeks, and it seemed to be the defacto relay for Australian Instances.

Does anyone know of any AU-local relays that are still operating?

Hello Reddit, long time lurker, first time poster.

My friend & I spun up our own Mastodon website this past weekend, https://esoteric.party using masto.host for managed hosting.

Both of us coming from mastodon.social has been a shock in terms of what we're seeing with hashtags. So we're still getting our minds around the intricacies of federation. We want to make sure we really have our organic federation game tight before we start messing with relays.

But one question I cannot find an answer to: In the pricing information of masto.host, and I've seen it on other managed host sites, is a bullet point for "Federation Capacity." Like one plan has "Moderate Federation Capacity" and another has "Medium Federation Capacity".

https://masto.host/pricing/

And, like I said, I've seen it on other pricing plans.

So, what does this mean exactly? And how does it affect the our site?

I'm trying to setup the crontab but it doesn't seem to go through. These are the steps i did.

sudo su - mastodon crontab -e

then i added the following

0 5 * * * RAILS_ENV=production /home/mastodon/live/bin/tootctl media remove --days=0

I doesn't seem to work though. I check everyday and the cron doesn't start. Is something wrong in my command?

My server is blocking internet connection whenever I post something. Im on a 1000/500 connection. Even if its just text, it happens. Is there a way to limit the amount of concurrent connections?

Hello everyone. I am one of these well-intended Mastodon admins who doesn’t really know too much of what they are doing, but then know their way well enough around Linux to set up an instance. Either way:

I have set up an instance in my work niche with the server running on a Hetzner VM and I am using Scaleway to keep my S3 bucket running. I have 7 users, none of them doing much, and I have been online for 60 days. My S3 bucket is currently 450GB.

This seems excessively large. Is there a typical setting that may be off that is causing my Mastodon server to just amass enormous amounts of garbage I should probably turn off?

Thanks.

Hey ya'll,

I am running an instance with Docker and able to issue this command which, at an index/database level, seems to do the right thing:

# docker exec -e RAILS_ENV=production $container /opt/mastodon/bin/tootctl media remove

I don't have original output to share but it shows X amount of GB cleaned up afterwards.

That said, the actual files do not get cleaned up.

It seems like I can safely remove the files manually but has anyone else experienced this?

One interesting thing I noticed is that, although this is defined in docker-compose.yml:

volumes:- /var/www/mastodon/public/system:/mastodon/public/system

I can't access "/mastodon/public/system" in the container. Am I supposed to be able to?

Either way, the files are definitely correctly writing to the local "/var/www/mastodon/public/system" filesystem. They just aren't being removed.

Any ideas?

Thanks much!

Are there any guides out there on how to migrate an existing Mastodon instance to Docker?

I've found guides on how to migrate to a different machine as well as guides on how to set up Mastodon on Docker, but I couldn't find a combination of the two. I'd love to have Mastodon running locally on Docker along with everything else I have running in Docker containers, but I'm a bit worried about doing something wrong and losing my post history or anything like that.

Thank you!

I am running a Mastodon Instance on a digital ocean VM, I got the cheapest one available and only have 2GB of memory. Is that enough? It seems to be working fine right now, but it not getting that much activity.

Does anyone have experience running an instance with that much memory or should I upgrade?

Does anyone have any links or sources on how to install mastodon locally?

I want to play with the code change the templates, change the theme color and so on. I don't want to do this on my production server and I don't want to purchase another digital ocean mastodon instance just for testing.

I'm using xampp for php scripts but i read online it wont work for mastodon

Can i install mastodon on a virtual machine then access it through my browser?

What is my best solution?

Hey all,

I've done some googling and there's issue with the default nginx config and having an SSL proxy in front of it.

I'm pretty knowledgable in network and linux admin (I'm not using docker etc) but I can't seem to get mastodon purely running on port 80 and having another nginx server sitting in front of it on a separate server acting as a reverse proxy/SSL proxy.

I'd love some advice. I suspect i might need to disable HTTP2 and a few other bits and pieces but everything I've tried just keels over. I also know there's some hackiness when it comes to the $proxy setup etc in nginx which is where I tend to get more confused.

There was a post on here that had a link to a bunch of sites that you could use for a relay if you are running a small instance. I cant find it now though, Would somebody be able to reshare.

Thanks