🍱 Sean Todd ☕ @GigaByte4711@whitespashe.uk

Oof. Generating a vanity #tor domain is pretty CPU intensive.

Once that's done, I'll be able to link it to my mastodon node!

Until then: slowness

#mastodon #sysadmin #mastoadmin

For anyone that's running a #mastodon instance on #tor:

Do you need an entirely separate mastodon instance for both Tor and Clearnet, or can you effectively have both addresses point to the same server?

Boosts welcome.

#mastoadmin #sysadmin

So, when attempting to use git to manage my Mastodon instance......

I managed to pull the branch that had none of my custom changes, and a completely different docker-compose file.

I then proceeded to bring up my mastodon, screwing with all of my containers.

For whatever reason, it refused to revert container names and volumes, however much I tried.

After eventually switching to the correct branch, and judicious use of 'docker-compose down', everything came back up!

But no luck, as my reverse proxy couldn't see the server.

One nginx restart, and logs started flowing!

We're all back online now, but I blame @mike for giving me well written instructions that I dutifully ignored.

#sysadmin #mastoadmin #git #mastodon

Whitespashe.uk now fully supports 1337-character posts!

Next on the list of admin work, is to get a Gitea instance online, and start mirroring the main mastodon repo. Then, I can have custom patches for this functionality applied on each upgrade.

#mastoadmin #sysadmin

Extended character limit works! Now I just need to find where to add the correct customisations for Tusky to see it.

#mastoadmin #mastodev #sysadmin

Whitespashe is going down whilst I try to extend the posting character limit!

#sysadmin #mastoadmin

whitespashe.uk has been tuned a little more. With any luck, things should be running a little quicker and should be a little more responsive!

#sysadmin #mastoadmin #federation

Running a remote account cull on whitespashe.uk

Is it supposed to take ages? Should I be running this on a schedule?

#mastoadmin #sysadmin #fediverse

Anyone able to test federation over tor with me?

Also, if I'm using the dockerised tor option by sirboops, how do I go about finding my onion id?

#sysadmin #mastoadmin #fediverse

Is anyone else seeing large numbers of random-character usernames registering/attempting to register to mastodon recently? I've got approvals on, but I'm not really happy with the amount of mail that's now being sent from my server....

#mastoadmin #fediverse #sysadmin

Anyone that's upgraded to mastodon 3.0.0rc2, does your about page still show the version as rc1, or have I done goofed somewhere?

#sysadmin #mastodon #mastoadmin

Whitespashe is now running Mastodon 3.0.0rc2!

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.0rc2

#sysadmin #mastoadmin #mastodon #fediverse

Whitespashe.uk is now running Mastodon v3.0.0rc1!

#mastoadmin #mastodon #sysadmin

Just instance-blocked gabfed.com

Another #gab instance.

#mastoadmin

I have instance-blocked cyzed.com, as it's another #gab instance.

#mastoadmin

Whitespashe is now running Mastodon 2.9.0rc2! Lets take a look at these new features!

#sysadmin #mastoadmin

Aaand with that, whitespashe is running Mastodon 2.8.3! Just waiting for elasticsearch to sync up!

#sysadmin #mastoadmin

Hey fellow #mastoadmin peoples!

What commands should I be running regularly to keep my small instance in the best of health? We're running 2.8.0 on docker, if that helps any!

Boosts always appreciated!

So, whitespashe.uk has lost all of it's toots.
This is due to a truncate command being run on the local statuses table, including the cascade option to include other related tables.

Normal functionality is there, so I don't think anything else has been affected. I'll try to see if there's a way of reimporting our user account exports, but if not:
Whitespashe.uk has been given a fresh start!

#mastoadmin #mastodon