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Cleaning Mastodon PushNotificationWorker failures

Hey Mastodon admins,I’ve noticed lots of errors in the logs and sidekiq dead queue similar to a failure for pushrelay-mast1.your.org. These come from failed mobile/web notification services which are registered for your users… and they fail repeatively! Note: if you know who runs/ran the failing push services, maybe give them […]

Mastodon 4.2.0 – Post Toots Every Day

<OverlyDramaticIntro> Hello Mastodon enthusiasts, after seven months of relentless innovation and extensive development, the eagerly awaited Mastodon 4.2.0 update has been released. Mastodon continues to set itself apart from the mainstream platforms with a focus on privacy and user safety. This update stands as a testament to the teams dedication […]

Wild Instance Abandon (Part 1)

At the time of writing, there are two Mastodon instances called mstdn.party and mstdn.plus, run by the same person… There are currently over 15 thousand active accounts shared between the two, and the instance appears to have been abandoned. I have tried to contact the administrator, as several other instance […]

Mastodon as Reference Design

The official “Mastodon” is a bundle of reference designs – The reference Web FrontEnd (WebFE), a reference BackEnd (MastoBE), and a pair of reference mobile apps (iOS/Android) – All third-party clients, forks, clones, and Mastodon-compatible “ActivityPub” servers (including Cloudflare’s Wildebeest) are all based on the core teams approved concepts, designs, […]