Server Update
Server Update
Rocky 10 has been available since July. I am going to update the Rogue Project Friendica Instance VPS next Sunday on August 22nd. I will be doing this around midnight EST. So you can expect the Instance to be down for Maintenance at that time.
Unus Nemo
#Instance Update #Maintenance
⚠️ Important headsup if you are on the server mastodon.cloud:
Mastodon.cloud no longer seems to be moderated. Its admin account hasn't posted since Feb 2023, its code of conduct is blank and there are vile racists posting from there. The racists have been reported many times but their accounts are still active.
Because of this, other server admins are starting to block mastodon.cloud completely.
If you're on mastodon.cloud you might want to move to another server ASAP: fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
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Soul
Soul
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
Andromeda wrote:
Do you believe AIs have a soul
Rev wrote:
I believe anything that can love has a soul.
These are quotes from a Gene Roddenberry's (the creator of Star Trek) Andromeda series. Without context you just will not get it. Watch the series and you will understand 😉.
Yacht Bots account has been deleted. We will see how long it take for them to get tired of making new email accounts for their spam. I may just block that mail server if this keeps up.
Reminder
Friendly Reminder
A month or so ago I made an announcement that abandoned accounts will be deleted. This is mainly due to my setting a ceiling on the number of users that can register on this Instance. The ceiling is set to try to keep the Instance usable. I can only afford so many resources.
If you need to take a sabbatical or are going to be off line for a while please let me know so that I will not delete your account. If I am not warned that you are not going to be able to use your account then I delete accounts that reach 60 days with no activity. I of course will be flexible with this for typically active users.
Unus Nemo
TOS & Rules amendment
No Vulgar Display Names
Okay, I thought this would be self evident though apparently not. As I want this Instance to be accessible to all ages and demographics with a diverse outlook on ideologies there are certain expectations that need to be met by all users. Being polite is a given and I will delete an account over someone that cannot control their behavior on this Instance. I did not really think it was necessary to make a rule that states that you cannot use a vulgar or obscene display name. I was wrong. I deleted the account, they can try again with an appropriate display name if they choose to.
I officially updated the TOS & Rules to reflect that using a vulgar display name is not allowed. I will be the judge of what is vulgar and/or obscene.
Unus Nemo
Server Issues
Certificate Expiration
Due to an issue with an update to SELinux
and it's targeting profile certbot
,the tool I use to renew my site certificate, failed. As SELinux
was not allowing it to write the updates for the renewal process. I have corrected the issue though it has taken some time to get the certificate renewed.
I am sorry for any inconvenience that the delay in renewal may have caused. I hope everyone enjoys their day.
Unus Nemo
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Violation of TOS & Rules
I deleted a post of yours because you chose to Market. Please review and observe the Terms Of Services & Rules. You may promote your own work or the work of your friends and family. You may not advertise or market for a business. What you may promote for yourself has limits. You can for instance promote your, or a friend or families book, art work, even a small arts and craft etsy site. You may not advertise for a major Incorporation or business even if you own or work for it. I do not allow marketing on this Instance. In addition your profile must not exist entirely for promotions or it will be considered a marketing account and deleted.
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plan-A
— (Proud Eskimo!)@Unus Nemo
Thanks.
Mine came packed with latest it seem. NOT
bash --version
GNU bash, version 5.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
not available for me yet..
sudo dnf copr enable c3d/bash
Did you compiled your version of Bash? Is only way with pgp keys ok.
You laid it out, I know
" This works because by default, /usr/local/bin is before /usr/bin on the system path. This is by design. So that local installs by your admin (which is probably you) will override system defaults" which I'm not so found about.
Yes as I said bash 5.2.37 is the default for Fedora. You would have to be on Rawhide Fedora to get Release Candidates (RC) which I do not recommend. Yes, I compiled my bash straight from source from the GNU GIT Server. They sign everything and it is up to you to check the signature or not. Personally I use their savannah git service to get the source from the current maintainers. Though you can download the zip file with sig file if you prefer. We both know I am not nearly as paranoid as you are so I have no issues using their git server. Please note though that any version of bash on github is not the official version. It is just a version someone is playing with. Most GNU projects today use Savannah GNU git, which belongs to GNU.
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plan-A
— (Proud Eskimo!)I see now, thanks!
With search engine I had erronous ones..
This one it is.
savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=ba…
The GNU Bourne-Again SHell - Git Repositories [Savannah]
Savannah is a central point for development, distribution and maintenance of free software, both GNU and non-GNU.savannah.gnu.org
which I'm not so found about.
You should be, it was designed that way for a reason. Often you need to maintain the outdated system version so the system will stay stable. While you provide a local copy for your users to use. They can of course if they want to use the system resource instead. Most would not want to. Keep in mind you have to have root access to install to /usr/local/bin
just like you would to install to /usr/bin
. This system has worked quite well for over 50 years. There is no issue with it.
With that said no you would not want to have a program overshadow a system program if you did not know about it. Which is why it is recommended that you not put your Present Working Directory on the system path and if you do, to add it last, never to the front of the path.
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I correct that to 50 years. It originated in Unix. Neither env
nor shebang was available in the original version of Unix 55 years ago (hence the correction). And the recommended way for the system path to be implemented is not dangerous at all, and neither is shebang.
You should, unless you happen to be maintaining system scripts, always use the #!/usr/bin/env bash
form and never use the fully qualified path of the software. Let env
find it on the path. This solves many issues. Such as not all software is installed the same place on all systems. Though where it is installed is on the system path.
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You are confusing issues with software executing from the Present Working Directory with installed software. It is not dangerous and never has been. Homebrew uses the strategy for a reason, it was designed to work that way. Homebrew did not implement this, it is the way Unix and Unix like systems work. And it works quite well. Even without your approval 😉. You just see everything as a danger.
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Agriculture
For the hearing impaired, please note the video has a transcript on YouTube to help you follow along.
youtu.be/jyVIqq4VBy4?si=ghnWxw…
American ex-Farm Worker Weighs In
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins says the federal government will keep deporting farm workers, and staff farms with "100% American participation."What you need ...YouTube
No reason to be sorry, I just thought you were implying you had to be born in America to a citizen. If that is not what you meant then I apologize for the misunderstanding.
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Eric Arthur Blair AKA: George Orwell (pen name) is widely known for his novella Animal Farm and his dystopian novel 1984. He is a very popular author. Shame you have never heard of him. A lot of his work is mandatory reading in many high school and college literature courses in America at least.
note: The quote in this meme is from his novel 1984
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KITIMA3
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Svenja
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Stephanie Appleby
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Esther Payne
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •hey @OpenForumEurope you may want to move off Mastodon.cloud
It's not going to be a good look remaining on an unmoderated server.
ikuturso
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •according to this article (the contact email there is for sujitech) the instance is run by the same people as at least Pawoo, mstdn.jp. The company still seems active...
masknetwork.medium.com/why-we-…
Why we are backing Mastodon and the future of Decentralized Social
Mask Network (Medium)Fedi.Tips
in reply to ikuturso • • •@ikuturso
Either they aren't moderating, or they are allowing really awful stuff to be hosted.
Either way, it's not a good idea to be on such an instance.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
p.s. If you want to see an example of vile racism hosted on mastodon.cloud, here is one:
web.archive.org/web/2025081413…
Note the date, the account is still active and is still posting this kind of racial hatred despite being reported.
EDIT: This post now seems to have been deleted seemingly by the account itself. The racist account itself just posted a follow-up trying to "explain" their statement with more extreme racism 🤮 mastodon.cloud/@CensorsAreCult…
Censors are Cultists (@CensorsAreCultists@mastodon.cloud)
mastodon.cloudCensors are Cultists
2025-04-24 11:36:45
Out of Print Archive (meppi64)
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
Interesting profile name, especially when I go to his followers list to not only block him, but also everyone who follows him, only to see that he made that listing invisible.
These dumb fucks, I swear. 😂
Kierkegaanks regretfully
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
Sascha Raubal
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
Asshole.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •p.p.s. A lot of legitimate non-problematic accounts joined mastodon.cloud when it was still moderated. I'm guessing most of the ones still on there are there because they don't realise what has happened.
If you know someone still on mastodon.cloud, you might want to politely let them know what the situation is and suggest they move. I'm sure most will be horrified about what's happening and keen to move to a different server. If they need help moving, the guide is at fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
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Author-ized L.J.
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •psuPete
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Is it possible to search?
newsie.social/relationships
Full Mastodon addresses aren't completely viewable
Fedi.Tips
in reply to psuPete • • •@psuPete
As far as I know you can't search your follows/followers list, sorry 😔
Daniel Bohrer
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •LAUREN
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to LAUREN • • •@noondlyt
Not as far as I know, sorry.
Kev
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Kev • • •@edgeofstretch
Thanks for taking the time to write these kind words, it's really motivating to hear these posts are useful!
Good luck on the new server 🙂
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •p.p.p.s. Mastodon.cloud seems to be running a very out-of-date version of Mastodon's server software. This is a bad sign as it means there may be unpatched security holes etc.
This lack of technical updates is another reason to leave mastodon.cloud as soon as possible.
It's never clear how long unmaintained servers will continue. If it disappears without warning, it will be too late to move your account.
If you want help moving, feel free to ask! Also see the guide at fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
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Will Phoenix
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Anhedonic Hedonist
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Thing that gets me, is hosting's quite the little chunk of change, to be all "Ho-hum, was I running a server somewhere?"
So possibly - working as intended? *shrug*
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Anhedonic Hedonist • • •@AnhedonicHedonist
Yeah, that leads into a weird tale about money:
social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…
Does make one wonder where the money is coming from and why they seemed to disappear after making a super-large donation.
And even if they couldn't be bothered to moderate, why would they stop updating the software? There are plenty of hosts who will do updates automatically for a small monthly fee.
None of it makes sense.
FediThing 🏳️🌈 (@FediThing@chinwag.org)
Chinwag Socialmkj
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Release v4.1.25 · mastodon/mastodon
GitHubFedi.Tips
in reply to mkj • • •Thanks for the digging. If they are still updating makes it very odd that they stopped there, as the Masto developers specifically warn about no security patches to that branch since April 2025.
(And why are they on such an old branch anyway? And if they're updating why aren't they moderating?)
Ken Butler
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Ken Butler • • •@nxskok
That's really great to hear, and thanks very much for the feedback 🙏
Fragarach
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •I'm reluctant to block the instance at a personal level just yet.
Purple
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Jonas
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •kimapr
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
i tried to open the follow-up post, but was greeted with this:
I’m pretty sure i’ve seen this exact thing before, and it’s like, lol. also ironic how someone named “Censors are Cultists” is hosted on an instance that engages in geoblocking, i.e. censorship
Fedi.Tips
in reply to kimapr • • •Sensitive content
@kimapr
You can see it archived at web.archive.org/web/2025081416…
Censors are Cultists (@CensorsAreCultists@mastodon.cloud)
mastodon.cloudKonakona
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in reply to Konakona • •@Konakona @Fedi.Tips
I agree with the idea of not feeding trolls though, as an Instance admin if someone says an Instance needs to be blocked then I want evidence as to why. Blocking another Instance is not something I do lightly. So yes, feeding trolls is not a productive thing to do. Though if you call out an Instance as being unmoderated you kind of have to provide evidence if you expect to be taken seriously.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Konakona • • •@konakona
If you let people spread lies about vulnerable minorities, it leads to real world discrimination, violence and murder.
How does someone ignore it when people are physically attacking them in the street?
Konakona
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Konakona • • •@konakona
If I don't give at least one example, some people will assume I'm exaggerating or overdoing it when saying it's racism. They'll say they've never seen anything like that and demand proof.
I tried to pick one example that was most clearly racist.
Konakona
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Erik
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
woah
The censorsarecultists guy has at least one unused alt at submarine.online
Not even going to touch that, instablock and might warrant #fediblock
marzuq märzenbecher
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •👁️ @RaulKrauthausen @exnocte @MissPla @durst
#MastodonCloud
nadb 🐸
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •⚠️ Mise en garde importante si vous êtes sur le serveur mastodon.cloud :
Mastodon.cloud ne semble plus être modéré. Son compte administrateur n'a pas posté depuis février 2023, son code de conduite est vide et d'ignobles racistes y postent. Les racistes ont été signalés à plusieurs reprises, mais leurs comptes sont toujours actifs.
À cause de cela, d'autres administrateurs de serveurs commencent à bloquer complètement mastodon.cloud.
Si vous êtes sur mastodon.cloud, vous devriez peut-être changer de serveur au plus vite : fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipsCalaad
in reply to nadb 🐸 • • •A noter que lorsqu'on migre son compte ainsi, on migre les comptes qu'on suit et ceux qui nous suivent, mais pas les posts eux-même.
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Please note that when you migrate your account in this way, you migrate the accounts you follow and those who follow you, but not the posts themselves.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Calaad • • •@calaad
Yup, I've tried to cover this in the guide.
Marcus
in reply to Calaad • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Marcus • • •@marcusxms @calaad
That might or might not work depending on whether the server shutting down sends out a deletion command. Many of them do this to tidy away posts from accounts that no longer exist.
You can download a personal archive of your posts but there's currently no way to upload this onto Mastodon:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-download-your…
There may be other platforms that allow archive uploads in the future, Firefish experimented with this at one point.
Thibaultmol 🌈 🔜@WHY2025
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Thibaultmol 🌈 🔜@WHY2025 • • •@thibaultmol
Yeah. I'm posting because there are legitimate non-problematic accounts which joined mastodon.cloud while it was still moderated and don't realise what has happened since then. Hopefully they hear about this and move.
Alex Chapman
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Thomas Tanghus
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Tekniquelly correct
in reply to Thomas Tanghus • • •@tanghus Got any links to the racist stuff? I just looked at the TL and it’s filled with random junk like an unmoderated ghost ship usually is, but I hadn’t seen the vile stuff yet.
(Not asking because I doubt it’s there, just researching before I suspend a server.)
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Fedi.Tips
in reply to Tekniquelly correct • • •Sensitive content
Here you go:
mastodon.cloud/@CensorsAreCult…
This account has been reported many many many times over a long period.
Also noteworthy that it is able to boost posts from openly racist pro-Nazi instances because mastodon.cloud doesn't block them.
Its latest post claims black people are a different species 🤮 The account couldn't be more racist.
They just deleted another post they made but fortunately I managed to archive it: web.archive.org/web/2025081413…
Censors are Cultists (@CensorsAreCultists@mastodon.cloud)
mastodon.cloudTekniquelly correct
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
@tanghus Sigh. This is why we can’t have anything nice.
Thanks for that. We’re suspending.
Shadow Heart
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
AI6YR Ben
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Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •☠ Captain Arcee ☠
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Slowly Going Sane
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •David Fleetwood - RG Admin
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to David Fleetwood - RG Admin • • •@reflex
Yeah, it seems to be unmaintained, yet another reason to leave.
GunChleoc
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •GunChleoc (@gunchleoc@mastodon.scot)
mastodon.scot☠ Captain Arcee ☠
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Jon
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Egon Willighagen
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •We have suspended them already
Rina
Admin @ tootworld.social
Derek Martin
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Jake
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Admiral Memo
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Be More Kind
Mastodon hosted on kind.socialChristiane
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •The Doctor
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •The Gibson 🅅
in reply to The Doctor • • •Andrew Waters
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Duncan Hart 🇮🇲 🇦🇺 🌏
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •artywah
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •the bear's den Administration
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •It's not collective punishment, don't be ridiculous. It's an individual's right and responsibility to choose an instance, and move instances if they don't like how it behaves.
You're infantilising Fedi members by claiming they have no agency or ability or alternatives.
Also, mastodon.cloud isn't even updating its own software any more, it's several updates behind the latest supported versions. This is not good for its members, it means security holes may not be fixed.
Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Unus Nemo
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • •@Joseph Quattrocchi @Fedi.Tips
You really believe that an Instance that is several versions behind on support updates is dependable? You believe that people attempting to keep toxic content from being propagated are fostering a toxic environment? I am not understanding your motivations or reasoning here.
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Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Unus Nemo • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •It's not a dependable instance. Its software isn't up to date, there may be bugs that put its users in danger.
The admin hasn't posted in 2.5 years, that is not a sign of dependability.
Quite often instances where the admin stops communicating for years may vanish without warning.
"Brigading isn't punishing a negligent admin "
It's not about punishing anyone, it's warning people that they are on an abandoned instance. Would you rather they weren't warned?
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Tor Iver Wilhelmsen • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •@quattrocchi @toriver
Can you please stop using such ludicrous hyperbolic terms for what is just a server block on a federated network where people can move to different servers?
"executing a totalitarian cleansing"? Can you hear yourself? Are you serious or are you a troll?
Real life actual totalitarianism rises when lies about vulnerable groups are allowed to spread widely. Vulnerable groups get attacked and murdered in real life because of such lies: social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…
FediThing 🏳️🌈 (@FediThing@chinwag.org)
Chinwag SocialJoseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Tor Iver Wilhelmsen • • •Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Tor Iver Wilhelmsen • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •@quattrocchi
No one is stopping anyone using mastodon.cloud.
All that is being suggested is people might want to move off it because it seems to be no longer maintained or moderated.
Unus Nemo
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • •@Joseph Quattrocchi @Fedi.Tips
Collective punishment would be if I allowed an unmoderated and unmaintained Instance to propagate to my Instance. I really could not blame my users for being upset if I did not block an Instance that is openly allowing racist material to be propagated by their Instance.
I am not about the Cancel Culture. Though reasonable moderation has to be present on an Instance for me to accept that it should be propagated. If you check my Instances Block List you will realize I do not block Instance arbitrarily.
lars
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •leftic
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Design Thinking! Comic
in reply to leftic • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Design Thinking! Comic • • •@designthinkingcomic
If you want help with moving please feel free to ask! (I've tried to make the guide as easy as possible, and answer common questions, but guides aren't as useful as direct answers.)
Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Unus Nemo
in reply to Fedi.Tips • •@Fedi.Tips
I do not block Instances lightly, though allowing racists posts cross a line I cannot accept. I have blocked maston.cloud on my Instance for now until I see that the Instance Admin starts moderating again.
Fedi.Tips
Unknown parent • • •@volcano
Yes! There are simple non-technical step-by-step instructions here:
➡️ fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
If you want any help with this please ask 🙂
Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipsErik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •