🍱 Sean Todd ☕ @GigaByte4711@whitespashe.uk

Ugh. I've had to disable full-text searching, as my VM is unable to handle the high memory requirements. Looks like a hardware upgrade is in order soon. 😥

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Some memory issues on whitespashe.uk

Rebuilding my elasticsearch db, as it hasn't been running for a couple of months.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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?

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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....

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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!

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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!

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

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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!