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New status page https://stats.uptimerobot.com/xGEBMt3Yv

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PSA:

PLEASE USE THE NSFW FILTER FOR NSFW CONTENT I'M GETTING TIRED OF SAYING THIS

mstdn.io about page: https://mstdn.io/about/more

Contains:
- Introduction
- 📜 Rules
- 💻 Infrastructure
- 👨‍💻 A bit about me
- 💰 Donations

mstdn.io block list: https://gist.github.com/Angristan/2f2f36452a8a23e7d8c31529f4d02487

Contains:
- Local accounts
- Foreign accounts
- Foreign instances
- Instances we're blocked from

Patched

Some critical kernel vulnerabilities have been found: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/tcpsack time to patch

In other news, the migration I did a few weeks ago seems to have ended the storage issues for good. Fingers crossed.

Also I can't approve new accounts right away but mostly about a day or two after, so this will likely hurt the engagement of new accounts here. But I don't have a choice.

When I suspend the accounts I also manually ban their IP address but this isn't super useful (and takes even more time)

I successfully blocked some referrers but that isn't enough.
They also use verified gmail and outlook addresses.

In the end, they are impossible to detect until they toot some shitty backlink.

I don't know why this instance if targeted with spam but we're really in a shitty spot. The worst is that I can't automatically detect spammers: they are real humans beings (legit user agent, captchas would be useless) and while they mostly are from India, they come from many different AS.

Note that this isn't a perfect solution since it sill takes a lot of time to approve the accounts, and most of the accounts don't properly fill the registration form (e.g. "Why do you want to register here?") so I have no idea if they are legit or not.

Since there is way too much spam going on (I banned dozens of accounts in the last few days), the registrations will have to be manually approved by me.
If you want friends to come here, please use the invitation system.

Done! Mastodon 2.9.0 comes with a simplified layout https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.9.0

now Mastodon

done

there are quite a lot

First some system upgrades I guess

Update time?

New status page https://stats.uptimerobot.com/xGEBMt3Yv

It's alright

hey