#mastodonappuk

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116929144390213579 For folks on #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon - I'd love your input on if you'd like me to enable this functionality. Our costs per e-mail is pretty small so I'm not super concerned currently about the cost of enabling this.

And that's us updated, #MastodonAppUK is now running Mastodon 4.6. I do need to update our fork for the latest bug patches but that will probably be a weekend job. You may need to refresh your page.

This evening I'm planning to update #MastodonAppUK to a newer Mastodon version. Due to it being a major upgrade there will be a short downtime while we perform the relevant steps to get us fully up to date but I'm hoping it should be no more than a couple of mins for us to get up to date. I do also need to give Universeodon a bump in versions as there have been some bugfixes released that we aren't currently running so will hopefully get those applied to both later in the week. Status page - https://status.atlas-media.co.uk/schedules/37

The #Universeodon instance is now updated to Mastodon 4.6. The good folks over at @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social have done all the hard work of writing up what has changed so I'd encourage you to take a look here - https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/ Assuming there's nothing that goes horribly wrong in the next day or two I'll also get #MastodonAppUK upgrades later this week.

Some good news, I've managed to get the Mastodon fork we use for #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon now updated for 4.6. I'm going to try updating #Universeodon fairly shortly so there might be a couple of blips while I perform DB migrations and get everything up and running there. Once I'm happy that Universeodon is working as expected and given it a couple of days for the dust to settle I'll get #MastodonAppUK also upgraded to the same version.

Just as a bit of an update for the folks here on #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon I haven't quite had the time I expected over the weekend to get the patched and customised version of Mastodon working with 4.6, I'm hoping to have some time later in the week however I am also currently pretty swamped with client work and have a fair bit of work travel coming up. The plus side to all of this is the client work is what pays my bills and allows me to continue to invest in more hardware, I'm still very keen to get a UK based S3 service operational (Subject to Storage and RAM costs) for us to migrate our media to as well as getting a secondary site with enough capacity to run some of the workload if we ever had an issue on our primary site. I'm hoping over the next couple of weeks to get us updated to the latest version of Mastodon and will share more as and when I've got useful info to share.

I'm hoping to have some time this week to get our custom tweaks to Mastodon applied to the new 4.6 release over the course of this week with the goal of hopefully getting it deployed to the instances over the weekend. I'm fortunately pretty busy with project work (Which is what pays my bills!) so time is a bit of a premium for me right now hence the delay of it being this weekend that I will hopefully be able to apply the updates themselves. #MastodonAppUK #Universeodon

Apologies to those that have had to wait longer than usual for accounts to be approved here on #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon - We've had a large spike in spam accounts with increasingly legitimate looking reasons for joining and a wider range of domains and IPs than usual. It's taking a lot more work than normal to work out which accounts appear to be legitimate and which ones are bots / bad actors.

After noticing our position in the #AltText league table, I'd just like to encourage my fellow #MastodonAppUK users to add Alt Text to their photos, I'm not chastising anyone, just giving a gentle nudge to help visually impaired Mastodonians.

We're adding mastodon.cloud to our #Fediblock list due to the instance seemingly being abandoned with open signups and zero moderation. The burden of us suspending accounts locally is not practical when the instance is out of date and not being maintained. It's been flagged since August last year - https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115027342813989021 so I don't see it likely that anything is suddenly going to change. #MastodonAppUK #Universeodon #FediMedi #MastoAdmin

And apologies to the folks here on #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon - This has broken a lot of follower / following relationships which I know is never ideal. This is a lot of the reason I've been reluctant up until now to suspend the instance but the amount of reports we keep getting for it and the fact it's running a very old version of Mastodon with no active admin account since Feb 2023 means I don't see a sensible way to stay federated now.

I've just pushed a minor change to our infrastructure configuration for #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon - I'm hoping this should fix some of the weird issues we've seen around IPv6 and it does mean that if our primary HAproxy server does go down for any reason the secondary server will take on the IPv6 connectivity as well. I do need to look and see if I can do something smart to cover some IPv6 monitoring as right now IPv6 can silently fail and the site will still show as fully healthy.

It looks like the connectivity issues between #Universeodon and #MastodonAppUK are at least in part due to SideKiq and IPv6. I've disabled IPv6 on SideKiq for the time being to at least let me try and get things back operational. For now though it's very much past my bedtime and I need sleep!

We're having some major issues this evening across #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon due to connectivity issues with our primary gateway router at our data center. I'm waiting on some network monitoring info from our ISP but I'm starting to suspect this may be some sort of attack as I can't think of any other reason our router would be seemingly crashing regularly. It seems as if the device comes online for a few seconds and then drops back off the internet. Thankfully it doesn't seem to be actively impacting the sites themselves but our content processing is currently almost entirely offline due to issues with outbound connectivity.

We may be seeing some network related issues across #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon I'm keeping an eye but our router is currently unresponsive. The status page will be updated should we actually see connectivity drops - https://status.atlas-media.co.uk

Just a note, we have added the following domains to our #Fediblock list across #MastodonAppUK #Universeodon and #MedMastodon

• privacysafe.social
• privacymatters.pro

Both domains have had more than a few recent reports which no action have been taken by the instances with relation to misinformation / anti-vax content and in the case of the second domain transphobia.

For #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon folks - I think I've finally got the IPv6 connectivity working again, I need to do some digging to see what caused it to drop it's address in the first place and have a load of work to get the secondary haproxy instance aligned and sync'd with the first one but I'm hoping this should mean we're now fully operational again and everything should be working :)

@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk Getting a 'Site Not Found' message loading Mastodonapp.uk when I'm connected to my Three Mobile Home Router but all fine when I turn off WiFi and connect via my EE Sim. This was not a problem till about 4 or 5 days ago. #ThreeMobile #MastodonappUK