29 hours since the release of Mastodon 4.3.1, and server level adoption is currently at 29.5% providing access to 56.3% of active users.

Combined with 4.4 (main) branch servers and 4.3.0 deployments, 72% of Mastodon users have access to the latest features of this cycle.

Updated Fediverse spam blocklist for any #mastoadmin - the Japanese teen is still angry about DMCA or something

If any Mastodon admins are dealing with spam account sign-ups, it's worth noting that these accounts seem to universally use disposable email providers and burner email address. There's a GitHub repo that tracks these providers. All moderation inquiries are sent to a user's email on Mastodon, so there's no legitimate reason any Mastodon user should be using a disposable email address. As such, there's a git repository that tracks these disposable email providers. There are also bash scripts that will import the repository into tootctl for you.

The disposable email git repo can be found here:

• Disposable Email Domains

And the bash scripts can be found here:

• Docker
• Regular/Not Docker

Simply clone the repo and copy the bash script onto your server, then edit the script to point at your Mastodon installation and the directory you cloned the repository to, and it should handle the rest.

Side note: I checked our logs and we had a huge spike in attempted sign-ups from a bunch of different disposable email addresses this week, so I can confirm that blocking them definitely works. :blobyeengrin:​

If any #mastoadmin want my temp limit list for #spam wave - https://github.com/GossiTheDog/Cyberplace/blob/main/Blocklists/TemporarySpamList.csv

You want the download raw file link on Github.

You can import it from Settings -> Moderation -> Federation, then manually unblock once the spam stops ("Undo domain block" on each).

Note it doesn't defederate, just limits, so no follow relationships are broken.

@fosstodon Jump, jump, jump! Everybody loves content layout shift.

Really, @Gargron just happily releases this and nobody checks if it works? What happened to using multiple browsers to test? What happened to using CSS that works?

We released Mastodon 4.3 today, packed with a lot of awesome features: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/

I want to thank @Claire, @Gargron, @dave for their hard work on the code, as well as @samhenrigold for the design. Also a lot of thanks to our regular contributors, including @matt and @thisismissem

Now let's focus on 4.4! We have a lot of exiting things to work on, we will do our best to release it before September 2025 😅

We are considering dropping support for using Azure Blob as a media storage in Mastodon 4.4, as the official Ruby Azure SDK has been abandoned. If you are currently using this feature, please check this discussion: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/31617