Okayyyy, I made a bit of a mistake (saved the database dump to /tmp and subsequently rebooted before restoring the backup).
It's not a huge deal, I just have to redo the database backup (which took a while the first time around), so... mstdn.party is going to be offline a little longer than I hoped 😢 #MstdnParty
📣 Announcement: #MstdnParty will be undergoing maintenance on Tuesday, February 20 at 1:00 PM Central Time (19:00 UTC), as we move to a new server. Expect potentially 1-2 hours of downtime.
We will post a reminder to this account 15 minutes before shutting down, and we'll post again when the migration is officially complete.
#MstdnParty / #MstdnPlus have been updated to Mastodon v4.2.6, which addresses important security flaws. As always, let me know if you notice anything off 😄
My name is Kerem; I'm a photographer & also interested in 3D modeling & digital illustration. I enjoy Synthwave, Deep House & Dark Ambient music.
Like the most, I'm migrating from Twitter and looking for a proper place to share my work. It is really hard for someone like me who using Twitter as his main social media since 2008.
I hope I can make meaningful connections here too.
We're seeing some slight technical difficulties on #MstdnParty, one of our processing servers crashed, which has things running at a slight delay. If you've noticed things like your home timeline being 2-4 hours behind that is why.
Things should be fixed, and we're seeing the delay/latency decrease steadily so far, so things should be back to normal soon. -@jonah
update: resolved - according to our stats the backlog is completely eliminated, so you shouldn't be seeing any more lag. Let us know if you continue to have any issues with the server! #MstdnParty@jonah
Happy to report the slowness issues we’ve been seeing on #MstdnParty for a few hours now should be resolved 👍 Still checking into why the database randomly got bogged down, maybe Mastodon is just busier than usual today 😄
I will not be suspending/defederating Threads[.]net on my Mastodon instances, and I've written a post to explain why and preemptively answer some questions for everyone who trusts me with their accounts:
I hope this explanation makes sense for those who wanted us to defederate with Threads. Federating with Threads does not impact your own privacy, contrary to popular claims. We still reserve the right to limit/silence Threads (and likely will after they launch, I elaborate on this in the post above).
#MstdnParty is a great alternative to Twitter, but maybe you're looking for an #Instagram replacement as well...
Well, you're in luck! I've just set up https://pxlfd.plus/ - a free, ActivityPub-enabled #Pixelfed instance for sharing photos with a much cleaner image-focused interface. Since it's all interoperable, you can even follow Pixelfed accounts from Mastodon, give it a try: @jonah
Mastodon.social has now been limited on #MstdnParty due to ongoing issues with spam on their end. You will only be able to see Mastodon.social posts from users you follow. We'll re-evaluate this when they solve their problems.
Mastodon.social is no longer limited on mstdn.party, because they seem to have added a captcha on sign-ups, and we have not seen spam bots from their server lately. Remember to keep reporting any spam you receive, thanks! #MstdnParty#MastoAdmin