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!
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CW: admin question, regarding possibly dangerous fedi software
Uh, is
mitra one of those fedi software forks that should be a red flag to fedi admins?
#FediAdmin #AskFediFinally, an updated #introduction: Hello! From #Shanghai to #Montreal, now in #NewYorkCity. Master #student in #ComputerScience at #NYU Tandon, still struggling to figure out what I gonna do next. Gained notoriety for making Barinsta, now I hang out in #Matrix and ActivityPub circles and code stuff once in a while. Am a #FediAdmin. Fervent user of #PublicTransport. Knows too little of too many things. Posts are #SliceOfLife + minor commentaries. Happy to have an IRL #meetup with y'all!
Had an exciting day today.
(TL;DR: I accidentally created a Cloudflare Tunnel fight club.)
So I moved my #GoToSocial instance to a new server today. The move went really smoothly and the instance was back up in less than 30 min.
Then weird shit started happening: sometimes my new posts/replies disappeared and reappeared, images were not always loading, notifications acted up.
This confused the fuck out of me.
Restarting the server didn't help. I even reinstalled the #Pachli app but it only got weirder: I started seeing "invalid token" errors after logging in, but only 50% of the time and the other 50% it worked perfectly fine.
Then came the realization! The old server was still running alongside the new one. Shouldn't really be a problem because the domain is pointing to the new one, right?
The thing is though, my instance is running behind a #Cloudflare tunnel so now the same tunnel was running on both servers, fighting each other for control. After shutting down the old server, everything started working fine again.
#selfhosting #fediverse #fediadmin #gotosocialadmin
What I'm missing in #Mastodon and #Fediverse is the ability to subscribe to posts or comments to be notified when there are new replies. Do any servers or clients out there support this feature?
#fediadmin #mastoadmin
Tip for #singleuser or small instance users:
The biggest disadvantage of small instances is the dead federated timeline. Instance admins can subscribe to the classic #relays, but this comes at a high price such as high resource usage and too much noise, depending on the relay. It's either all or nothing.
Instead you can populate your federated timeline by following the #FediBuzz relays. They can be followed as normal users and boost posts based on the hashtag, instance or even language.
Here are a few examples:
@tag-fediverse@relay.fedi.buzz (boosts the #fediverse hashtag from all instances)
@instance-jasdemi.com@relay.fedi.buzz (boosts everything from my instance, jasdemi.com)
@language-it@relay.fedi.buzz (boosts only posts in Italian language from all instances)
Now before you follow any relays, I suggest creating an alt account as this will make you home timeline very noisy. With your main account you can now check out the federated timeline or follow hashtags.
More info here: https://relay.fedi.buzz/
#fediadmin #gotosocial #sharkey #mastodon #feditip #selfhosted
We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (https://vantaa.black/pact)
There is over a decade of precedent that Facebook will not have users' best interests as their guiding principle but rather profit margins, if it joins the Fediverse.
We at tech.lgbt have long held the belief that corporation owned instances are a threat to the core of the Fediverse: freedom for users to be themselves and to be a part of their communities. The 2010s saw the loss of online freedom when the majority of the Web was consolidated into a few destinations, and Facebook entering here could lead us back to centralization. Furthermore, NDAs for server admins will constrain our sovereignty online by binding us legally from disrupting their business.
We are not products. We are people, and we do not welcome Facebook in this space.
#meta #FediPact #facebook #project92 #mastodon #fediverse #FediBlockMeta #FediAdmin #p92 #MastoAdmin
here's the final iteration of my Mastodon advanced search patch: https://github.com/VyrCossont/mastodon/pull/8
this enables full-text search for posts you haven't interacted with, as well as full-text search for accounts, and includes several advanced filtering operators and parser fixes.
#FediAdmin #FediDev #MastoAdmin #MastoDev #FullText #Search #FullTextSearch #ElasticSearch