Why can EU companies not use US-based cloud infrastructure and SaaS products?
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the US government to force US companies to share foreign customer data without a warrant or disclosure.
There is no way to reconcile US govt surveillance with the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights on privacy.
#MastoAdmin#Moderation approaches:
How to deal with accusations and rumors based on outside drama?
This is a tricky one.
Suppose a user is accused of something that is generally frowned upon or worse. However, this has supposedly happened irl, not in your instance, and also the user has a good track record of being active and generating content that doesn't violate the rules at your instance or other instances. There is also no threat to your userbase (as opposed to, for example, in the case of a doxxer).
What is the best approach?:
1- Suspend the user
2- Kick them out (allow them to migrate away, although this just pushes the problem back to the options below)
3- Let them stay and any disagreeing remote instances suspend the user on their side
4- Let them stay and any disagreeing remote instances suspend your whole instance
IMHO, the only sustainable option is option 3, unless it carries a realistic threat to other users. It's not feasible for small instances to be part-time detectives and unless the content posted itself is problematic or there are other reasons, service mentality should prevail if we don't want to push users to super large instances that don't care.
Any concerned remote users or instances are of course free to block on their side.
A whole instance block is not warranted since the instance itself is not spammy or allowing any problematic content, but merely decides not being capable of making a fair assessment of off-platform rumors.
flipboard.com is a remarkable collection of accounts that are connected to the Fediverse. There are 5,757 accounts from them that are known on this server (we relay with them and get all their content), and these accounts post about every topic imaginable.
You can follow any of their accounts on your favorite Fediverse app! It's great!
I relay with their server so that searches return a richer result set.
Today, I had to create an extra sidekiq process just to handle the surge of posts from them. But, I think it's worth it.
If you have a specific interest, you might find an appropriate account to follow. I'll be looking through their accounts.
Here's a tiny screenshot to show how specialized some accounts are.
Has anyone connected to @Mastodon been working to switch from Redis since they went closed source? What's going to be involved in moving to a drop in replacement?
Urgent: PuTTY 0.81, released on 4/15/2024, fixes a critical vulnerability CVE-2024-31497 in the use of 521-bit ECDSA keys (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521). If you have used a 521-bit ECDSA private key with any previous version of PuTTY, consider the private key compromised: remove the public key from authorized_keys files, and generate a new key pair.
Should update FileZilla and other software, too, for same reason. #MastoAdmin
Started to write a blog post about metalhead.club t-shirts and quickly realized that I don't have the energy to find proper words right now 😅.
My plan is to describe what considerations I made and which parts I use for my t-shirt "business". So others feel inspired and might sell instance merch, too! 😁
I think t-shirts are a great advertising space for Fediverse instances. 👌
if you want to help people access the full, uncensored internet via Tor, and you're a fedi admin, here's a way you can help. you may know about Tor Bridges and how they're used by people behind repressive governments that censor the internet to safely access the net. countries like China or Russia block the public list of Tor relays, for example.
WebTunnel is a Bridge method that uses a reverse proxy that you configure using your existing nginx (etc) web server that points to your server's local tor daemon. so your fedi instance can be a bridge to the Tor network for people who cannot connect to Tor normally. disobey.net is hosting one ^^
one thing to note is that it's important to disable nginx (etc) web server logs, since the people who use bridges are connecting to you as their first, trusted hop onto the tor network. something to keep in mind to maximize privacy and reduce your own liability.
Scheduler::VacuumScheduler and Scheduler::UserCleanupScheduler run at the time I am most active. I am sure that is why I have some weird issues when I am surfing my timeline, like when it goes blank. Is there any way to alter the time that they run in SideKiq? If they could run at like noon instead of midnight that would be great.
It looks like the Mastodon roadmap doesn't yet have anything listed for moving away from Redis to one of the open source forks. I'm wondering whether there has been discussion of Redict vs. Valkey for the future? #mastoadmin
Thinking of switching my instance to glitch solely so i can better interact with you infosec.exchangers and your 11meelion character posts... How do admin folks like it? #mastoadmin@jerry
Is there an all in one "So you want to run a fediverse instance" type guidebook in relation to legal, moderation and long term sustainability tasks?
Things like templates for Privacy Policies, Server Rules and About sections, understanding moderation tasks and the importance of having multiple administrators, funding plans.
Is there an all in one "So you want to run a fediverse instance" type guidebook in relation to legal, moderation and long term sustainability tasks?
Things like templates for Privacy Policies, Server Rules and About sections, understanding moderation tasks and the importance of having multiple administrators, funding plans.
IFTAS releases a practical guide for fediverse admins and platform creators (among others) subject to the EU’s Digital Services Act. Which would be…everyone.
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What's the best way to tidy up the public/system/cache folder in a #Mastodon instance?
My public/system/media_attachments is on 3.3GB.
However, public/system/cache/media_attachments is 22GB!
Similarly, public/system/accounts is 97MB, whereas cache/accounts is 22GB
How should I clear down this massive cache?
I've tried tootctl cache clear but nothing seems to change in the cache folder.
In total the cache folder is 55GB, everything outwith cache consumes only 6GB. It's making my backups massive and long to run.