Preamble I am the “proud” owner of an overpowered Proxmox cluster hosted in colocation at an Australian data center. My cluster is two 2U AMD EPYC servers with a 1U IBM for backup (Only two of those servers have the blessing of the machine god). Unit 0 is AMD EPYC […]
<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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
The following are the answers I gave to a journalist during the second or third major burst of members coming from Twitter. Obviously, the journalist only took one sentence and didn’t capture my mood. 1: How many people have joined Mastodon in Australia since Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter? Do […]