2026-08-03T11:53:42Z https://nostr.ae KuJoe 💞 https://nostr.ae/npub1x6dtuttfzvysff0vfsd0sd4ar46ea2uep60xt9k6ku07ld5l2s4ql067fv https://a.mindlycdn.com/accounts/avatars/108/096/894/052/276/239/original/344cd5af4588a1bd.png https://a.mindlycdn.com/accounts/avatars/108/096/894/052/276/239/original/344cd5af4588a1bd.png https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszg75zw0zlzceepgcnm9tfjn2jek2gxt949kd94t7hhqqw0vk3apqzyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z5ppacy8 It looks like mastodon.cloud has been thoroughly abandoned by its owners and moderation staff resulting in some rather wild tomfoolery there along with some glaring security concerns so we&#39;ve marked the server as &#34;Limited&#34; for now and will give it a week or so to see if things improve before we properly block it. 2026-04-19T22:15:50Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsywn9p2c3zhgfrfpghtff9xs72p3d4twxg0pzee8f6uzu88k4ae4gzyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z5mar974 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfy4fgaeg6qqdq5n3nynknx6hvttv2svhy6khfuhrrsex4m2f5tqgwqf9ef'>nevent1q…f9ef</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I didn’t realize that, I guess that makes sense why my changes to the web service don’t impact it. I don’t have Prometheus metrics enabled because I found it extremely confusing. I guess I should look into enabling that to help track down the bottleneck? 2026-02-04T19:39:15Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9u2qeqf5pdctt4ykz5qgc59x8f580jdjjyf9h0lar7dk088zu5mczyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z5laz6wu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswexr4r098ef0yd76ag9xjg58494aexgqep6m8ky0zszhujsw4kagnxha23'>nevent1q…ha23</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I enabled stats on the puma service and monitor it with a PHP script that generates alerts when the backlog number gets higher than 1000. 2026-02-04T19:10:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8v7u5d0hhw44fqsgv7r0jsd6enlfhywrmavq3pcq78ytep9h3g5szyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z56rg4z8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsganpp8c2nnj0k7qafr34cj6ev0et86t9qhu7p52cckewxgwj6rjq3zvsp4'>nevent1q…vsp4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I’ve been using pgbouncer and it’s been basically magic since running it, I didn’t think it was a database issue because PgHero rarely shows over 50 connections but my web connections (puma) will hit over 1000 active a few times an hour now, sometimes queuing up 10-40k backlogs.<br/><br/>I never had this issue with &gt;30k active users so something must have changed recently with my user activity. 2026-02-04T18:49:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszmlgjsv8lpt0sawjluc085h00smlsf67r7ef9jk4n7c5raarnjaqzyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z5u3j78h Looking for some advice from #MastodonAdmins<br/><br/>What setting do you have WEB_CONCURRENCY and MAX_THREADS for your puma (mastodon-web) service?<br/><br/>I’ve set it 50 and 20 respectively for a pool of 1000 web processes, but I’ve been getting constant overloading with tens of thousands of backlogged connections.<br/><br/>Do I need to adjust the mastodon-streaming service settings also? I increased my database connection limit to 1500 to handle the connections plus extras.<br/><br/>Any ideas?<br/><br/>#mastodonadmin #sysadmin #mastoadmin 2026-02-04T17:19:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqcuzvcd07tma6sjf8d5nnh56q49c2df6004h8sa2kmpev2r8gt0czyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z54xcrrq I&#39;m looking over different payment platforms for non-businesses and it seems that it&#39;s nearly impossible to accept payment as a person without one party paying some sort of fee and it&#39;s really breaking my brain this morning.<br/><br/>Even excluding fees, they all pretty much suck because the credit card companies or servicers on the backend suck.<br/><br/>I may have thought of a good workaround, but it&#39;s less convenient so it probably won&#39;t work. 2025-08-26T12:35:51Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrmvhzfnpynapvml32pyv6twpq62l2h8wzefjw0x23s9qqllcf89szyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z58xhdft In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs24pd785x8frzndvk8kp7vescm6dgunftdtuvdyv87f32h7wre3pgvguh2u'>nevent1q…uh2u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Just ordered a print off Etsy and I can&#39;t wait to surprise my family with it! 😃 2025-07-13T17:24:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs93gtl8g8zetv8z9ppsq282h563dq3uuhv57qnakj93fk5c27rzvqzyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z5q77e06 Hot take: People should be allowed to be happy, healthy, and safe. :heart_pride: 2025-06-02T15:16:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgjqpl3e226er4lchkpwvdj2h46ea99t5k260lgwlmyq0cvqudvcszyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z5n6p3nl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszlekfhe73sjpdnd90sl4tqkfwm7sx3vrsuhjnxuvgvw49qwz3jhcqj65zc'>nevent1q…65zc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I forgot all about this, I think I&#39;ll be spending the weekend working on getting all of my documentation and guides cleaned up to reflect the current version of Mastodon. Thanks! 2025-05-16T08:33:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs82h5r6n74l6zpw3lgf9as6j903yesrhh9p2arf2272sv5y2yancszyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z5lrrqyh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstvse9kc7rpav073fly6kpnfqvzxr9mcs203k0zfp57a9vcefjldgk67m9t'>nevent1q…7m9t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m guessing a lot of that cost is because of the location? I can&#39;t even comprehend what a deployment like that would look like. I&#39;m trying to imagine what a $500/month deployment would look like. Do you happen to have an infrastructure diagram or anything so I can see what your deployment looks like? I really need to rewrite mine, this one is from 2023 where I had a 12 server deployment and it was costing me roughly $90/month.<br/><br/><a href="https://docs.mindly.social/infrastructure-layout/">https://docs.mindly.social/infrastructure-layout/</a> 2025-05-16T00:46:22Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9tj2z0yf2lfpt5zcvzfkmrpr2vc3emj8l23erzmg04xv9yk9fr2qzyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z5vg02je If any Mastodon instances are having trouble with their coats growing out of control, ping me and see if can help lower your bill.<br/><br/>Apparently a recently closed instance was paying $300/month for hosting which is insane to read considering how small of an instance it was. When we had 40k monthly users I was paying about $120/month so an instance with less than 400 total users (not MAU) should be super cheap to run even with a few TB of storage and bandwidth.<br/><br/>It hurts my heart to read instances closing down over costs and finding out they’re paying more than instances 10x their size. 😢<br/><br/><a href="https://newsie.social/@jeff/114513118997692099">https://newsie.social/@jeff/114513118997692099</a> 2025-05-15T18:48:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw4w5ra0s69kpz6ln3egwmh7uva6h8lwkk6aa685etdujenv85j2czyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z5r680yj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst8a6g8n6w2qvwh5kesp8y5stgcrvxekttr3k057x6t9y0s9g2rrcg3l7dm'>nevent1q…l7dm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What&#39;s really funny is that this seems to happen to you so often that if you ever wanted to run a criminal enterprise you could probably get away with it because of the number of times people have tried to falsely tie unrelated illegal operations to your name you&#39;d have a lot more historical data showing that it isn&#39;t you than proof that it is. 🤣 2025-02-16T01:39:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdsj4t5sgtwy8t30p6x9gv0y49lyw25plvahvcvu4zd5jz2rsgk8gzyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z54ms0ys In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0u7fym2pcy7z5y9c56pqd05nvdyq0524xtv94w0uz9l056zspzcgg83snr'>nevent1q…3snr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>we support you and if there’s anything the community can do to help please don’t hesitate to ask! 2024-10-14T16:48:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspf8sasnn6vn9vjuv0e6g20e2vratd3ztkkpq3pqxh8e0vh0k5pnszyqmf403ddyfsjp99a3xp47pkh5wht84tny8fuevkm2m3lmakna2z5ytla0x Welcome new users! I&#39;ve put together an FAQ based on all of the questions I&#39;ve seen asked in the last 2 weeks (&gt;20,000 new users).<br/><br/><a href="https://faq.mindly.social">https://faq.mindly.social</a> 2022-11-18T17:51:00Z