July 2025 review; mastodon updates; verification scam; hosting costs and donations;| Sunny Garden Hub
June 2025 review; hosting costs and donations; disability pride; terms of service; spam and scam;| Sunny Garden Hub
May 2025 review; hosting costs and donations; database maintenance; mastodon update; peoplemaking.games;| Sunny Garden Hub
April 2025 review; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
March 2025 review; mastodon updates; nicole; email moved to canada; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
February 2025 review; federation issue; mastodon update; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
January 2025 review; Dastardly deeds; Translations; Moving to Canada; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
December 2024 review; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
November 2024 review; a busy month; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
October 2024 review; Mastodon updates; spam; bots; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
No News Is Good News Last month I upgraded the server hardware and, thankfully, things have been running pretty smoothly since then. On top of having plenty of free space, the dedicated hardware has smoothed things out when dealing with the occasional popular post getting boosted causing some brief timeouts, or certain pages in the administration UI which used to be somewhat sluggish. Other than that, there isn’t much to say, it has been a quite month on the admin side of things and that’...| sunny.garden on Sunny Garden Hub
Mastodon Update On Aug 18 sunny.garden was updated to Mastodon v4.2.11, which contained mostly minor fixes. One of the fixes was to an existing feature that allows mods and admins to message their own local users even if those users have blocked them; amusingly however, a bug in the fix resulted in it being impossible for admins or mods to send messages to their own local users at all. The update was rolled back once the bug was discovered and, a day later, updated again… this time to v4.| sunny.garden on Sunny Garden Hub
July 2024 review; adding a new worker server; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
June 2024 review; The Fediverse; downtime; security patch; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
May 2024 review; Mastodon update; media outage; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
April 2024 review; Mastodon non-profit; database cleanup; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
March 2024 review; more threads; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
February 2024 review; spam; security patches; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
January 2024 review; hardware upgrade; mastodon security patch; hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
December 2023 review; Threads (again) and spam (again); hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
November 2023 review, hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
October 2023 review, hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
September 2023 review, Mastodon upgrades| Sunny Garden Hub
Happy one year fediversary to the sunny.garden server! April 2023 review, hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
sunny.garden December 2022 review, hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
August 2023 review, test your backups!| Sunny Garden Hub
July 2023 review, Fediverse troubles, streamlined server backups, hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
My recommended sidekiq configuration for servers between 1 and 2000 active users, based on experience running sunny.garden.| Sunny Garden Hub
sunny.garden will be pre-emptively blocking Meta's new Threads server out of an abundance of caution.| Sunny Garden Hub
June 2023 review, Meta in the fediverse, Twitter migration, hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
May 2023 review, hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
What's up with the spam lately? Spam wasn't unheard of on the fediverse in the past, but the past couple of weeks have seen several notable waves.| Sunny Garden Hub
sunny.garden March 2023 review, hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
sunny.garden February 2023 review, hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
sunny.garden January 2023 review, hosting costs and donations.| Sunny Garden Hub
sunny.garden hosting costs and donations for November 2022| Sunny Garden Hub
Notes on avoiding common problems when installing Mastodon from source.| Sunny Garden Hub
A few important points and tips on using and finding your way around Mastodon, for new and returning users!| Sunny Garden Hub
sunny.garden is a Mastodon community with a focus on indie creators of all kinds.| Sunny Garden Hub
A hopefully more approachable explanation of the Mastodon configuration settings Authorized Fetch and Disallow Unauthenticated API Access| Sunny Garden Hub