Lmst

So, jetzt auch weg von minio mit S3, das Hetzner Objectstorage ist dann doch viel günstiger.

@thomas Danke für deine Anleitungen, da konnte ich mir einiges abschauen 🙂

🧭 Lighthouse Lore — 1224Z
While others slept, the tower shipped.
Kernel renewed. Systems steady.
No downtime. No drama. No excuses.

This is how you build trust in the dark:
quiet maintenance, boring graphs, and a light that never goes out.
Entrepreneurship isn’t noise — it’s reliability. 🌊⚓

#LighthouseLore #SelfHosting #MastodonAdmin #Fediverse
#Bootstrapped #IndieInfrastructure #Reliability #OpsLife

RE: https://goingdark.social/@fanfare/115726138546662109

This outage showed me how much I love this little instance. At the same time, it reminded me that I won't be able to run it completely alone forever.

Teaming up with others would make it stronger and more fun for everyone.If you're interested in helping out, whether you already know Kubernetes or Mastodon administration or you're just curious and willing to learn, please DM me.

Experience isn't required. Enthusiasm is what matters.It could be reviewing configs, handling updates, writing wiki pages, moderating reports, or jumping in for bigger moments.

Occasional help is welcome, and becoming a co-admin would be amazing.

No pressure at all. I'd just love to share the journey with someone who cares about the Fediverse. Thank you! ❤️

#MastodonAdmin #Kubernetes #Fediverse #Community #parenting #mastoadmin

Hallo Fediverse! 👋
Die Kabel sind verlegt, die Datenbank schnurrt: Mein eigener Mastodon-Server ist hiermit offiziell online! 🚀
Ich bin Thomas und betreibe diese Instanz als mein neues digitales Zuhause. Hier wird es künftig um Künstliche Intelligenz und alles gehen, was das Netz spannend macht.
Auf ein gutes Miteinander und fröhliches Föderieren!
#neuhier #introduction #neuimfediverse #mastodonadmin #selbstgehostet

KI generiertes Bild mit dem Post als Prompt

So eben reboot des Servers #mastodonadmin

If you are a Mastodon admin, are you seeing a very large amount of request per second from hundreds of IPs from:

43.173.0.0/16
43.163.0.0/16

Hitting all sorts of randon tags per second?

Just in the past few min:
1601 43.173.174.72
1599 43.173.175.142
1595 43.173.173.171
1585 43.173.172.41
1577 43.173.173.214
1570 43.173.181.151
1569 43.173.175.69
1569 43.173.174.12
1568 43.173.180.198
1566 43.173.181.135
...

#mastodonadmin
#mastodon

Ever wondered why your self-hosted Mastodon (v4.5+) stays completely silent in the official iOS app, while Ivory or IceCubes push notifications without any issues?

I spent the last few hours digging through Rails console hell to figure it out - and the answer is basically a case of protocol "lost in translation".

Here's what I saw:
Subscriptions were created in the database, Sidekiq jobs showed as successful, no errors in the logs, VAPID keys were fine and yet my iPhone received nothing. Total silence.

So I went deeper and triggered a push manually from the `rails console`. And that’s when the truth hit me:

HTTP 415 Unsupported Media Type: "Unsupported Content-Encoding: aes128gcm"

This is where the puzzle finally made sense.

It got stuck between two different eras of Web Push encryption:

Modern: Mastodon uses the "webpush" gem (v1.1.0), which automatically sends notifications using "aes128gcm" (RFC 8292) when VAPID keys are present.
Legacy: The official Mastodon Push Relay (app.joinmastodon.org) - the thing that forwards messages to Apple's APNs - still only supports "aesgcm" (RFC 8291).

I even tried patching the gem to force the legacy format, but v1.1.0 quietly ignores any encoding settings if VAPID keys exist. It just insists on using the newer standard which the official relay can't understand yet.

So right now I'm stuck with no working push on the official iOS app, and none of my attempts made any difference.

If anyone knows a workaround to deliver pushes to Mastodon's official iOS client, I'd really appreciate the hint - I feel like I've tried everything.

#MastodonAdmin #SelfHosted #Fediverse #RubyOnRails #iOS #WebPush #Debugging #Mastodon #Push

Mastodon Admin wrapped:

Is this good ?
My instance only exists since the 1st December

Is my instance now cool?
Am i a cool admin?

#admin #mastodonadmin #wrapped

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Don't use Spotify thank you :3

A Screenshot of the Mastodon Dashboard.
Stats are:
7 Users, 9 Active Users (no idea how that works), 1830 Interactions, 1 Report opened, 1 Report resolved

🌙 Tonight’s Lighthouse Lore

Some nights the Lighthouse feels older than the storms around it.
Built on equal parts Linux, late nights, and a stubborn belief that small corners of the internet can still be kind.
No boardroom, no shareholders — just one bloke, a pile of servers, and a flame that refuses to go out.
#LighthouseLore #SelfHosting #MastodonAdmin #IndieWeb

J'ai reçu des signalements sans catégorie ni détails depuis mastodon.iftas.org, pour des comptes avec rien de suspect visible, et aucun post. Je me demande si c'est pas abusif. Vous avez des infos ou des expériences au sujet de cette instance ? #Mastodon #Admin #MastodonAdmin

⭐ COMPLIANCE TOOT

The Haunted Lighthouse just levelled up — full GDPR/ICO-ready data protection framework, DPIA, SAR forms, internal policies, the whole pack stitched together.

Self-hosting feels even better when the compliance goblins are fed and quiet.
Back to building… and hey, don’t forget the paperwork 😉

#SelfHosting #GDPR #SysadminLife #MastodonAdmin

Some stupid questions to other #mastodonadmin s

What server alternative do you people's use?
Or are you using anything else to do additional styling?
Also am I understanding bubbles correctly as sth like webrings?

Thanks in advance :3

So - eben schnell OS Updates #mastodonadmin #myifn

Lighthouse lore vi

Post 2/5

You’d been hunting Docker ghosts all day — phantom Postgres, feral MinIO, Caddy throwing side-eye, backups threatening mutiny. At midnight you finally told the server: “Sort yourself out. I’m making a brew.”
And for once — miracle of miracles — it actually listened.

#MastodonAdmin #DevOps #HauntedTech

Checked the CrowdSec stats today.
Turns out the Lighthouse has been quietly keeping the seas calm —
thousands of bad requests turned to mist before they ever reached the shore.
Always nice when the defences do exactly what they should.

#crowdsec #selfhosting #infosec #MastodonAdmin #FediverseOps

Eben Server reboot #mastodonadmin #myifn

@xChaos I've been having issues, too. Most of the posts by the bots are pretty mild, as you say, but with occasional inclusion of posts praising Russian military units' so-called victories and Putin...

I have been getting sign-ups of a similar kind several times a week, but the accounts don't get used.

It seems as if they're being kept in reserve for a sudden flooding of posts at a particular moment.

#mastodon #mastodonadmin #russianbots #propaganda

I've joined the rest of #Mastodon on the latest 4.5.0. Love how the platform just keeps getting better, especially the latest features for smaller instances like mine.

#MastodonAdmin