Notices by Michael (michael@mstdn.thms.uk)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115378848435180844

The update to the 4.5.0 beta went very smoothly for me.

Had to test the quote feature, of course 😆

#mastoadmin

I have posted about this before, but wanted to re-iterate how much in love I am with FediAlgo:

I’m currently on paternity leave so have around half an hour per day for social. That is of course far from enough to keep up with a chronological timeline like mine, and previously with Mastodon the FOMO was real.

Now I go to FediAlgo and I feel I got an overview over what’s interesting in that day. It’s also immensely customisable, but the defaults do a decent job for me.

If you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend you try it out. You can try it out on my personal playground at https://fedialgo.thms.uk or on the maintainer’s official website at https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/

Thanks @cryptadamist for the work you put into this!

#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #mastohelp #nodejs #nod #opensource #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #webdev

@cryptadamist Yes, that fixes it.

Latest changes now deployed @HistoPol

@HistoPol that’s not @cryptadamist ‘s website it’s mine, so it’s me you need to be cross with.

I’m in the process of moving away from CloudFlare but it’s a slow process. I had for testing purposes turned on their analytics a few weeks ago and forgot about it. It’s CloudFlare’s analytics that’s responsible for this particular request.

I will turn it off again asap.

@stefan

Yesterday I had a fun discussion with my son who had written a seeder to create the inital admin user in his Laravel project.

So that led me to write this blog post about Laravel’s PromptsForMissingInput interface, which I only discovered a few weeks ago, and absolutely love it:

https://blog.thms.uk/2025/04/prompt-for-missing-input?utm_source=mastodon

#laravel #php

@cadusilva It looks like adding these two lines fixed the issue for me:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33624#issuecomment-2600505226

I’m getting a lot of Stoplight::Error::RedLight: object-storage and Aws::S3::Errors::InvalidArgument: Unsupported header 'x-amz-checksum-crc32' received for this API call. errors in sidekiq today. My images are all missing.

I’m using Backblaze B2 for object storage.

Any advice on what to do? Thanks!

#mastoadmin #backblaze

Looks like Mastodon is finally getting some built in functionality to fetch missing replies:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615

🥳

#mastoadmin #fedifetcher

Several people have asked me whether this makes FediFetcher obsolete. I thought I'd put out a more public response to this question:

Unfortunately I don't think I can retire FediFetcher just yet, as it still has some utility:

Firstly, FediFetcher can fetch context proactively without having to expand posts. (Eg one of my favourite features of FediFetcher is that it pro-actively pulls in replies to posts in my home timeline. I personally wouldn't really want to miss out on this.)

Secondly, FediFetcher can also backfill profiles - something that, as far as I can tell, Mastodon is still unable to do, and has no intention of implementing.

Thirdly, it'll likely still be a while until these changes are available in any released versions, and likely even longer until 3rd party apps have support for it.

I do hope it’s the beginning of the end of FediFetcher, but imo we are not there just yet!

#mastoadmin #fedifetcher

@BeAware @reiver inthinknthey are inherently flawed. Although Inkasso see the utility of them, so I understand why they exist and why admins use them.

I believe the oliphant list is still problematic, although better than it used to be.

@reiver lol. Not only can it be abused. It has been and is being regularly abused …

#mastoadmin

Missing UPS delivery says ‘Left At: Dock’.

Leaves me wondering where they actually delivered it?! Do they think I live in a houseboat?

🤦♂️

lol, now Amazon - having sent me a replace for the order that went missing - are asking me to return the item I never received, or otherwise they’ll charge me again. 🤦♂️

@BeAware haha, i know, right. Search and AI - the fediverse’s two worst enemies in a single product 😁

Hm, there appears to be a new Fediverse search thingy around, this time incorporating AI somehow:

https://seewallee.com/

Anyone know how it works and how it ingests data?

#mastoadmin

“We will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X. We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x

@jimcarroll gotta be careful with this: if you don’t have enough free disk space it’ll go kaboom 💥

@BeAware @paul

Can you re-run pip install -r requirements.txt to see if that fixes it?

Mastodon now recommends switching to libvips from ImageMagick.

Is this as simple as apt install libvips or is something else needed?

Bonus question: is there any way of confirming it’s set up correctly to use libvips?

#mastoadmin

@BeAware @paul @zvavybir

Actually, I completely forgot the arguably easiest and lowest tech way of running FediFetcher:

GitHub Actions. These require no hardware, no installation, and no CLI at all: it’s all point and click at GitHub. Full instructions can be found in the readme:

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher?tab=readme-ov-file#to-run-fedifetcher-as-a-github-action

The main disadvantage is that this way you can only schedule it every 15 min - GitHub doesn’t allow more frequent schedules.