nettime_mod

Dear nettimers,

Thank you very much for your financial support in our 2025 end-of-year funding round. We reached our goal of EUR 1,000 and even raised almost EUR 300 on top of that. As promised, this additional amount will be donated to a Mastodon/Fediverse related project or person.

Since we are a community project, we would like to ask you, the nettimers, for your suggestions on where this donation should go. Which project, organization or individual connected to Mastodon or the wider Fediverse do you think we should support?

Please send us your suggestions by January 4th. In the following week we will decide on the recipient, either based on the number of suggestions for a given option or, if there is no clear favorite, the nettime moderation team (@mediengruppe_bitnik@tldr.nettime.org, @gordo@tldr.nettime.org, @festal@tldr.nettime.org, @tb@tldr.nettime.org, @tante@tldr.nettime.org, @leitmedium@tldr.nettime.org) will choose what seems the best fit.

The suggestion gates are open! Just reply to this post. You can also support suggestions by liking them.

RE: @nettime_mod@tldr.nettime.org

And we're back.

If anything weird pops up, ping @tante@tldr.nettime.org. It's his fault then.

Dear nettimers,

after some hardware maintenance that should have gone without you realizing, the server will go down for some security patches in a few minutes.

Should only take a few minutes.

📟 TLDR SERVER DOWN (´×ω×`)

So we had our first downtime last night while most of the mods were sleeping ;(

Mastodons media cache filled 99% of our HD over night and the database stopped responding.

This has now been resolved by two new commands mastodon shipped with the last version. These new commands have finally cleared over 47.3 GB of header and avatar images on our hard disk. ;)

#MastodonAdmin check:

$ tootctl media remove --days=2 --prune-profiles
$ tootctl media remove --days=2 --remove-headers

Unfortunately these new flags are not in the official docs yet. But any #MastodonAdmin who is looking to delete avatar and header images please check:

https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/pull/1154/commits/6d44d7aea51daf03751402328983e549503043b2

Our media cache before pruning:

🖥️ Media Cache Usage

Attachments: 43.4 GB (498 MB local)
Custom emoji: 373 MB (0 Bytes local)
Preview cards: 551 MB
Avatars: 17.7 GB (13.3 MB local)
Headers: 38.1 GB (32.4 MB local)
Backups: 0 Bytes
Imports: 0 Bytes
Settings: 412 KB

After pruning:

🖥️ Media Cache Usage

Attachments: 34.2 GB (504 MB local)
Custom emoji: 374 MB (0 Bytes local)
Preview cards: 362 MB
Avatars: 2.54 GB (13.3 MB local)
Headers: 6.06 GB (32.4 MB local)
Backups: 0 Bytes
Imports: 0 Bytes
Settings: 412 KB

#HometownAdmin @darius@friend.camp

Server upgrades
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In terms of server resources, glitch-soc requires about the same environment as Hometown. We have been running on a server with 16GB of RAM and about 150GB of hard drive space. This setup isn't really sufficient for the number of users we have, so we have run into issues due to lack of RAM or space. For that reason, we have already provisioned a new server to migrate to — with 64GB of RAM and more than 400GB storage.

This machine costs us 48 Euro/month. At the moment, we are good with money, but will need to issue another call for donations later this year. We will let you know.

For now, though, we’d like to get some feedback from you. What do you think about this change?

@mediengruppe_bitnik@tldr.nettime.org @leitmedium@tldr.nettime.org @gordo@tldr.nettime.org @tb@tldr.nettime.org @festal@tldr.nettime.org @tante@tldr.nettime.org

This instance is currently moderated / administrated by @tb@tldr.nettime.org @mediengruppe_bitnik@tldr.nettime.org, @festal@tldr.nettime.org & @gordo@tldr.nettime.org. Please contact us, if you need anything.

For more information, including guidelines that should help to create a shared culture of critical analysis, experiments, mutual care, diversity, and anti-discriminatory practices, see https://tldr.nettime.org/about/more

@katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org @tb@tldr.nettime.org @mediengruppe_bitnik@tldr.nettime.org @festal@tldr.nettime.org @gordo@tldr.nettime.org @tante@tldr.nettime.org @leitmedium@tldr.nettime.org

We plan to upgrade once the new version of Mastodon has been released and glitch-soc has been updated.

📟 Hometown Upgrade ( ˘ ³˘)♥

We've just completed a Hometown upgrade which also includes a major Mastodon upgrade from v3.5.5 to v4.0.2 and brings a lot of changes.

- new layout for mobile
- follow hashtags
- edit posts
- new filtering system

and many more..

Read more about new features:
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.0.2%2Bhometown-1.1.0#new-features
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0

Let us know if you run into problems..

@nanoelquant@c.im @xChaos@f.cz there is no technical reason. Char limits are more like a cultural marker than a technical barrier. The medium is not really designed for long form content, so 2000 already seems like a stretch.

📟 Hometown critical security upgrade

We've just completed a hometown upgrade after a critical bug was found in the mastodon software. The bug should be fixed now with the latest security release.

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.0.5%2Bhometown-1.1.1

Let us know if you experience any hiccups.

Thx @tahnu@tldr.nettime.org & @leitmedium@tldr.nettime.org to alert us about the critical bug.

@isaaccp@kolektiva.social @darius@friend.camp first thing we did ;)

@endolexi please report offending posts to us, then we can see them and take action.

@esther@strangeobject.space we are on v4.0.2 and the flags are available... undocumented but available ;)

@esther@strangeobject.space yes, thx! we were also considering object storage. Let's see where this goes. At least for now --prune-profiles helps a lot.