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Ryan Wild<p>We appear to be having some continued issues here on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> - I'm still trying to get to the bottom of exactly what's going on, it looks like our Redis server again decided to throw a wobble and then our database decided to refuse all auth. I think (again) that we might be back now but will continue monitoring.</p>
Ryan Wild<p>Apologies, I thought we were back, we were not quite.</p><p>From what I can see things are settling back down now here on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> and I think we're back to normal service. </p><p>Really really sorry folks for the nearly 3 hour disruption there, that was most certainly not how I had planned to spend my evening and very much did not go to plan. We are now back to stable and I am now in a position to perform the original maintenance that I needed to perform so appreciate folks understanding here.</p>
Ryan Wild<p>The work to resolve some issues on <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> and the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> relay are taking longer than expected. There has also been a knock on impact to the content processing here on <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> which I&#39;ve managed to get semi-resolved and is now catching up. </p><p>I&#39;ve posted the latest on <a href="https://status.atlas-media.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">status.atlas-media.co.uk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> and will keep the more detailed posts there but apologies again, this was supposed to be a quick flip behind the scenes to allow me to re-build some capacity and get some issues resolved and it just hasn&#39;t worked so well.</p>
Ryan Wild<p>Apologies for the relatively short notice, I'm going to need to take <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> offline for around 20 mins today at 17:30 UK Time (8 Mins time) to perform some essential maintenance on our underlying infrastructure.</p>
Ryan Wild<p>We're currently seeing a few issues behind the scenes with <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> - Partially due to an issue with our backups which did knock things offline there for a few mins, and also with our content processing as it looks like we've got a bit of a backlog on both sites partially being caused by a lot of spam accounts data being purged behind the scenes. There is currently a 10-15 min lag on external posts getting processed into feeds.</p>
jayfell<p>I'm glad the eight hour outage is over here on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/mastodonappuk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodonappuk</span></a>. <br>I think <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@wild1145" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wild1145</span></a></span> must have taken it to bed with him!</p>
Ryan Wild<p>It looks like the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> relay has gone down due to an issue on the host it&#39;s running on. Apologies other <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a> &#39;s out there. It&#39;s rebooting now and I need to do some digging to see why the host restarted in the first place. Apologies for any disruption. </p><p>It&#39;s also taken down our <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FullTextSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FullTextSearch</span></a> on <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> and some other core services on MastodonAppUK so I&#39;m looking into this all now.</p>
Ryan Wild<p>I've increased the maximum post length here on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> from 500 characters to 1000 characters which happens to align us with what the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> instance was already running.</p><p>I'm not strongly against increasing that number further but given it may break some of the UI's and ways things are displayed, I'm reluctant to do so without a really good reason and I think for most things, 1000 characters in a given posts should be more than enough. </p><p>Let me know if anything breaks / things look weird and I'll shrink it back down if we need!</p>
Ryan Wild<p>We're still seeing increased rates of new accounts on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> - We are seeing with this an uptick in more "Advanced" spam accounts which are a bit harder to spot and it is taking me a bit longer than usual to get rid of such accounts. Please be assured this is something we're aware of and tracking and for every account that does make it past our existing security setup we're enhancing the protections to prevent future spam signups :)</p>
Ryan Wild<p>We've seen a small surge in registrations across both our sites, so welcome to those of you just joining us either on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> </p><p>If you're coming from Twitter and are looking for a theme / site that looks a bit more similar to what you're used to, the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Elk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elk</span></a> interface looks similar in a lot of ways and might help ease the move over to these parts of the internet!</p><p>MastodonApp's Elk - <a href="https://elk.mastodonapp.uk/home" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">elk.mastodonapp.uk/home</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Universeodon's Elk - <a href="https://elk.universeodon.com/home" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">elk.universeodon.com/home</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Ryan Wild<p>I'm going to be updating <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> to the latest Mastodon releases shortly. I'm not expecting there to be any real outage as it should be a case of doing some restarts, there might be a short delay in some of our content processing while I run through everything but I'm not expecting any major issues (hopefully!)</p>
MastodonAppUK Verified<p>It is also important to note we can only review accounts on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> rather than the wider federated network. </p><p>Please also note that just because this account does not follow an account does not make the account any less trustworthy, it may simply be that we hadn't seen the account or felt it note worthy enough to confirm validate beyond the URL verification built in to Mastodon</p><p>If you think this account should follow you please contact support@mastodonapp.uk</p>
MastodonAppUK Verified<p>This account has been setup to allow us to better identify <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/verified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>verified</span></a> accounts here on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> where for one reason or another the standard Mastodon verification process through a website is not sufficient. </p><p>Accounts here are verified by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@wild1145" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wild1145</span></a></span> manually. There is no "Benefit" to being followed by this account (You don't get a blue tick) but this may prove to be a useful resource for folks looking for accounts to follow or to confirm an account we host is legitimate.</p>
Ryan Wild<p>The "Issues" (Most polite way I can think to word it) surrounding Meta and their policy changes continue to grow worse and of deep concern. </p><p>Having thought things through for the last few days and following my recent post announcing us limiting them, folks on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> please note:</p><p>In 24 hours time I'll be changing the currently enforced limit to a full block of the threads domain breaking any connectivity and relationships between our sites and services.</p>
Ryan Wild<p>We are adding threads.net to our <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Fediblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediblock</span></a> list for <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> following further issues with their approach to moderation. I had been hoping with their integration with the fedi they might have taken some lessons from those of us here, apparently they are now going very much the other direction. </p><p>For the time being it'll be added as a limit and if things still appear to be problematic or a limit does not appear to suffice in the future we will fully bloc.</p>
Ryan Wild<p>For folks that didn't see earlier, I've written up our 2024 in review blog post now talking a bit about some of what we achieved in 2024 here on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> as well as some plans for 2025. Hopefully it all makes some sense and gives you a better idea on what I'm up to - <a href="https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2025/01/05/2024-in-review/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2025/01</span><span class="invisible">/05/2024-in-review/</span></a></p>
Chris Brooking<p>Will the UK Online safety act put an end to publicly accessible UK based Mastodon instances? This London cycling forum is closing due to the act and I would think that Fediverse instances would have the same issue. </p><p><a href="https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/401475/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lfgss.com/conversations/401475</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p>They say:</p><p>&gt; Reading <a href="https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/time-for-tech-firms-to-act-uk-online-safety-regulation-comes-into-force/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/ill</span><span class="invisible">egal-and-harmful-content/time-for-tech-firms-to-act-uk-online-safety-regulation-comes-into-force/</span></a> and we're done... we fall firmly into scope, and I have no way to dodge it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/mastodonappuk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodonappuk</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/diaspora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diaspora</span></a></p>
Ryan Wild<p>We are currently seeing issues with our <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Cloudflare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cloudflare</span></a> R2 storage which is impacting media on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> - We are waiting on an update from the team at Cloudflare with an ETA on resolution.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoadmin</span></a></p>
Ryan Wild<p>We have temporarily restricted signups on both <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Universeodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universeodon</span></a> following a number of aggressive spam accounts. We're continuing to monitor and see what better options we may have and so far have been able to detect and remove such accounts in a matter of a few mins however this we hope will prevent these accounts signing up and only slightly delaying legitimate signups.</p>
Ryan Wild<p>I think we're back once again here on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MastodonAppUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAppUK</span></a> - Sorry again about this, I'm struggling to pin point exactly why things aren't working as expected though have found part of our issue here was we were missing one of the two web servers which won't have helped. I'm continuing to keep an eye this evening before I call it a night.</p>