We just released Mastodon 4.5.3, 4.4.10 and 4.3.16 and 4.2.28. These versions contain various bug fixes, including a fix for a minor security issue. Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases #mastoadmin

Happy Monday y'all! TheCanadian is now running Mastodon v4.5.3! 🫡 Have a great day 🫶 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.3 #thecanadian #mastoadmin

Happy Monday y'all! TheCanadian is now running Mastodon v4.5.3! 🫡 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.3 #thecanadian #mastoadmin

We live in a condo. Every year my wife cunningly waits until everyone on the floor puts out their wreath. She then makes sure she has the biggest one. After she hangs it she says quietly to herself "I win.."

Hastings harse racing track in Vancouver is shutting down permanently after 133 years of racing. Seems like a cultural blow to the city and the province of British Columbia IMHO. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/horse-racing-ends-hastings-racecourse-casino-9.7005468

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@chad/115661188313029457 To my fellow #thecanadian fedizens: I saw this post from our #mstdnca friends earlier and was inspired to generate our #wrapstodon reports a little earlier 🫡. You should see a fun little post in your notifications for this 🤓. I've also updated the […]

A lot of people are resistant to any kind of business uses for the #Fediverse , but consider this: - While most of us here are rightfully scornful of #Capitalism , the notion of a "market economy" is not going to go away. There are innumerable small to […] [Original post on mementomori.social]

HEY CANADA. MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament. Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was […]

Attention Mastodon server operators 🤹🏻 We are working on a new Helm chart for Kubernetes deployments, and the team would appreciate your feedback. See this issue for the new repository (and to provide comments) #mastoadmin https://github.com/mastodon/helm-charts/issues/13

@fname is this the keeper?? 🫡

LOL one of my employees just filed a ticket with a software company and got an AI and a human response to the same issue: Human: "Thank you for the report we're looking into this" AI: "Ya that's a known issue , none of those features actually work" I must say I admire the AI's honesty.

What is up with the cost of RAM???

Was great to tour Kingsway Community Station today along w @lucymaloney.bsky.social. Unfortunately they’re worried that competing for a stagnant pool of grants risks their work which protects vulnerable sex workers. They’re looking for a new location but w/out service level agreement it’s likely

@phillycodehound Canada isn't a socialist paradise like some make it out to be, but at the very least we still have due process and rule of law. We also accept virtual Canadians on our instance.

A special note to anyone trying to joining https://thecandian.social : When filling in your reason for joining please try to make it sound as non AI as humanly possible. Include a detail about yourself, etc. I usually reject anything that I suspect is canned or too generic.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115583053748045238 Another happy release day to y'all! TheCanadian is now running Mastodon 4.5.2! Have a great day 🫡 #mastoadmin

We just released Mastodon 4.5.2, 4.4.9 and 4.3.15. These versions contain small bug fixes. Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases #mastoadmin

1) I'm going to come to Cloudflare's defense here. First they provide a useful free tier for millions of users, as well as a paid tier that offers good value for many enterprises. The success of these services really shouldn't be a criticism. The criticism should be that no one is stepping in to […]

Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at […]

@quaff Thank you for the update! For anyone wondering we sit behind Cloudflare's infrastructure as they protect us from various forms of attack.

Btw, if your site uses #CloudFlare DNS and is now down Just disable their DNS proxy, clear cache and p00f

Yeesh. We were down for a few of hours from 3:48am PST until about 6:42am PST. Outage was due to Cloudflare's network having issues. Will look into ways to mitigate this moving forward. Thanks for your patience and statutes will be fully caught up soon 🙏 Status updates were posted to […]

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]

1/ Loops is a short-form video platform for the Fediverse. There is a new version of the Loops Android app out — here is what it looks like. #fediverse #loops #loopsvideo #ShortVideos

If you can be at the legislature either before MLAs arrive around 12pm, or late in the night on Monday, please DM me. We need to mount a massive, militant opposition to these undemocratic bills.

Reminder: Ken Sim wants to make your Evo more expensive

Once again @quaff with stellar work keeping us up to date. We're now on 4.5.1

Ok folks we are back at it again from 1-5. Yesterday was a lot. Heard from so many passionate Vancouverites. Unfortunately I heard the mayor say it was a waste of time. But I assure you, I’m listening.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115543797133534356 Happy minor release day! We're now on Mastodon 4.5.1 🫡 Have a great day y'all. #mastoadmin

We just released Mastodon 4.5.1 This version fixes some bugs found in 4.5.0. Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub release page. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.1 #mastoadmin

Strong aurora for North America tonight, per the NOAA. Already seeing reports south of the marked location (CO, NM). #aurora #northernlights

Where I Toot from.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115503006012708370 Happy release day! We're now on the fully released Mastodon 4.5.0 🎉. Quote posts, and async fetching of replies! Those are the two most exciting features for me this time! What are yours? #mastoadmin

We’re happy to announce that Mastodon 4.5 is now ready for prime time! Quote posts, async fetching of replies, server timeline visibility settings, more moderation tools, and lots and lots of other tweaks and improvements. Announcement on our blog […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115496537923662130 Another happy release candidate day! We're now on 4.5.0-rc.3. Hope y'all have a good 5th of November 🫡 #mastoadmin

The third release candidate for Mastodon 4.5 is ready! It addresses UX concerns regarding quotes and post privacy, now warning when you quote someone in a followers-only post, and preventing quotes in Private Mentions. It also includes a few other bugfixes. We are planning to release the […]

RE: https://nileane.fr/@TangerineUI/115488550064065276 TheCanadian.social's Tangerine UI themes have been updated as well! Our Maple variant 🍁 looks good 💪. Thanks to @nileane for all their hardwork on this update ❤️ #mastoadmin

Zohran's "Shadows" speech really moved me. I hope it is a watershed moment for the immigrant experience in America. https://youtu.be/uGBQwCsIhn0

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115469738510853776 Happy release day! I am back and we're now on version 4.5.0-rc.2! Happy halloween y'all 👻 #mastoadmin

Who ya gonna call?

The second release candidate for Mastodon 4.5 is ready! It fixes an issue introduced in the first release candidate with some email setups, as well as a few interface rough edges. We still expect the final version for next week, but please test it out and provide feedback! Full release notes […]

Are you a developer who likes to build on, or integrated with, Mastodon? We've got a great blog post for you, today - here's what is coming in Mastodon 4.5. The release candidate was tagged earlier today, with the final version really soon now 🤞🏻 (quote post authoring, AsyncRefresh API, and […]

The first release candidate for Mastodon 4.5 is ready for testing! We expect to release the final version early next week, but please test it out and provide feedback! Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page […]

Looks like Mastodon is one step closer to a stable 4.5 release! Unfortunately, I'm not available to do the upgrade until Friday! So our instance release day will be delayed 🙏 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0-rc.1

If you are in a privacy supporting country, LinkedIn won a court case so they still gonna scrape your data to train copilot unless you opt out right meow. Settings/Data Privacy #privacy #linkedin

Hello fellow TheCanadian.social citizens! We've added a new service status page. Moving forward, if there's downtime, and you missed an announcement, you can always check the page! I'll do my best to keep it up-to-date for any outages (planned or otherwise) 🫡 The URL for the page is easy to […]

Meta laying off 600 people in its AI unit means that either they've got LLMs writing their own code or somebody thinks the music is about to stop. Either scenario is not encouraging.

Going to be doing a shared talk on how to write apps for Linux desktops and phones with a friend (who is not on Fedi) early next year at #vanlug. I'll be doing it for GNOME apps via GTK, she'll be doing it for KDE apps via Qt, and we'll be talking about how all of that is possible via XDG […]

I don't normally like seeing animals dressed up, but this Halloween costume stood out 🤣🤣