support@defcon.social
@support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy
The official Support account for DEFCON.social
[bridged from https://defcon.social/@support on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://defcon.social/@support on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
A lot of inauthentic Russian propaganda bots signed up in the last day or so, I think we got them all. Also a trend of emotionally charged anti-Europe news posting bots, suspending them as we discover them.
#mastoadmin
#mastoadmin
December 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A lot of inauthentic Russian propaganda bots signed up in the last day or so, I think we got them all. Also a trend of emotionally charged anti-Europe news posting bots, suspending them as we discover them.
#mastoadmin
#mastoadmin
Automated Russian propaganda bot accounts will be suspended as they are discovered.
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Automated Russian propaganda bot accounts will be suspended as they are discovered.
Our #defcon.social .onion service has been fixed and all Tor services working again.
It turns out our custom default style used an absolute instead of relative path and it broke rewrite rules, which broke the integrity hash, which broke the instance for Tor users.
It turns out our custom default style used an absolute instead of relative path and it broke rewrite rules, which broke the integrity hash, which broke the instance for Tor users.
October 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Our #defcon.social .onion service has been fixed and all Tor services working again.
It turns out our custom default style used an absolute instead of relative path and it broke rewrite rules, which broke the integrity hash, which broke the instance for Tor users.
It turns out our custom default style used an absolute instead of relative path and it broke rewrite rules, which broke the integrity hash, which broke the instance for Tor users.
Periodically searching for support% in accounts tab from all locations and suspending the fake support accounts helps you get ahead of the problem. #fediadmin
August 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Periodically searching for support% in accounts tab from all locations and suspending the fake support accounts helps you get ahead of the problem. #fediadmin
Reposted by support@defcon.social
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New version (v1.1.0) of #fedialgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, has a toggle switch to allow or disallow the selection of more than one filter option for when you're checking out your favourite hashtags […]
[Original post on universeodon.com]
New version (v1.1.0) of #fedialgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, has a toggle switch to allow or disallow the selection of more than one filter option for when you're checking out your favourite hashtags […]
[Original post on universeodon.com]
August 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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New version (v1.1.0) of #fedialgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, has a toggle switch to allow or disallow the selection of more than one filter option for when you're checking out your favourite hashtags […]
[Original post on universeodon.com]
New version (v1.1.0) of #fedialgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, has a toggle switch to allow or disallow the selection of more than one filter option for when you're checking out your favourite hashtags […]
[Original post on universeodon.com]
Reposted by support@defcon.social
We have turned on FETCH_REPLIES_ENABLED for #defcon.social! Our users should start seeing more and better context around posts they make or interact with. Please let us know if you see a difference!
May 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We have turned on FETCH_REPLIES_ENABLED for #defcon.social! Our users should start seeing more and better context around posts they make or interact with. Please let us know if you see a difference!
We have turned on FETCH_REPLIES_ENABLED for #defcon.social! Our users should start seeing more and better context around posts they make or interact with. Please let us know if you see a difference!
May 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We have turned on FETCH_REPLIES_ENABLED for #defcon.social! Our users should start seeing more and better context around posts they make or interact with. Please let us know if you see a difference!
Reposted by support@defcon.social
"What about free speech?"
A common question, often misunderstood. This new IFTAS Connect Library article breaks down what free speech really means (especially in US contexts), how it's often misapplied in moderation debates, and why community boundaries matter.
Read it here […]
A common question, often misunderstood. This new IFTAS Connect Library article breaks down what free speech really means (especially in US contexts), how it's often misapplied in moderation debates, and why community boundaries matter.
Read it here […]
Original post on mastodon.iftas.org
mastodon.iftas.org
May 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"What about free speech?"
A common question, often misunderstood. This new IFTAS Connect Library article breaks down what free speech really means (especially in US contexts), how it's often misapplied in moderation debates, and why community boundaries matter.
Read it here […]
A common question, often misunderstood. This new IFTAS Connect Library article breaks down what free speech really means (especially in US contexts), how it's often misapplied in moderation debates, and why community boundaries matter.
Read it here […]
We have now switched over to the first new 60TB drive, and it is synchronizing from the older 30TB. It will take many days to catch up, but now there is plenty of space going forward. #defcon.social
April 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
We have now switched over to the first new 60TB drive, and it is synchronizing from the older 30TB. It will take many days to catch up, but now there is plenty of space going forward. #defcon.social
We had never run “tootctl accounts prune” since #defcon.social came on-line, and it has pruned 110,880 accounts out of our database and storage.
“Prune remote accounts that never interacted with local users”
“Prune remote accounts that never interacted with local users”
April 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
We had never run “tootctl accounts prune” since #defcon.social came on-line, and it has pruned 110,880 accounts out of our database and storage.
“Prune remote accounts that never interacted with local users”
“Prune remote accounts that never interacted with local users”
Posting images should be happy again. We continue to free up space by removing remote headers and pruning remote profiles older than 2 years old.
Meanwhile the first new 60TB disk will be synchronizing with the older 30TB. Once that is complete we will start the process again with the second […]
Meanwhile the first new 60TB disk will be synchronizing with the older 30TB. Once that is complete we will start the process again with the second […]
Original post on defcon.social
defcon.social
April 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Posting images should be happy again. We continue to free up space by removing remote headers and pruning remote profiles older than 2 years old.
Meanwhile the first new 60TB disk will be synchronizing with the older 30TB. Once that is complete we will start the process again with the second […]
Meanwhile the first new 60TB disk will be synchronizing with the older 30TB. Once that is complete we will start the process again with the second […]
We are in the midst of getting ready to migrate our MinIO servers to larger disks 30TB -> 60TB to address unexpectedly running critically low on space. The metadata overhead for all the small files consumed almost 1/3 of all our storage space, and is not reflected in Mastodon statistics!
The […]
The […]
Original post on defcon.social
defcon.social
April 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We are in the midst of getting ready to migrate our MinIO servers to larger disks 30TB -> 60TB to address unexpectedly running critically low on space. The metadata overhead for all the small files consumed almost 1/3 of all our storage space, and is not reflected in Mastodon statistics!
The […]
The […]
Problem identified with our storage server, dashboard show 10TB free but disk is full. We are still investigating courses of action: Media clean up to buy time to install bigger disks, and to understand why the dashboard is so far off telling us about disk use.
#defcon.social #mastoadmin
#defcon.social #mastoadmin
April 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Problem identified with our storage server, dashboard show 10TB free but disk is full. We are still investigating courses of action: Media clean up to buy time to install bigger disks, and to understand why the dashboard is so far off telling us about disk use.
#defcon.social #mastoadmin
#defcon.social #mastoadmin
Noticing a lot of incomplete accounts all registering from the iu.edu domain, 0 followers, 0 posts, 0 art. Any other instance admin see this pattern from that domain?
#fediadmin #fediblock
#fediadmin #fediblock
February 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Noticing a lot of incomplete accounts all registering from the iu.edu domain, 0 followers, 0 posts, 0 art. Any other instance admin see this pattern from that domain?
#fediadmin #fediblock
#fediadmin #fediblock
What is with all of these fake company accounts that keep signing up?
Zero posts, zero followers and following, many times in foreign languages for things like spas, woodworking, delivery services, etc. we must delete 5-10 a day.
#fediadmin
Zero posts, zero followers and following, many times in foreign languages for things like spas, woodworking, delivery services, etc. we must delete 5-10 a day.
#fediadmin
January 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
What is with all of these fake company accounts that keep signing up?
Zero posts, zero followers and following, many times in foreign languages for things like spas, woodworking, delivery services, etc. we must delete 5-10 a day.
#fediadmin
Zero posts, zero followers and following, many times in foreign languages for things like spas, woodworking, delivery services, etc. we must delete 5-10 a day.
#fediadmin
Just a reminder, defcon.social is also reachable as a .onion site for those that want to participate anonymously.
Download the Tor Browser Bundle:
https://www.torproject.org/download/
Then visit https://defcon.social and click the purple onion icon in the […]
[Original post on defcon.social]
Download the Tor Browser Bundle:
https://www.torproject.org/download/
Then visit https://defcon.social and click the purple onion icon in the […]
[Original post on defcon.social]
January 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Just a reminder, defcon.social is also reachable as a .onion site for those that want to participate anonymously.
Download the Tor Browser Bundle:
https://www.torproject.org/download/
Then visit https://defcon.social and click the purple onion icon in the […]
[Original post on defcon.social]
Download the Tor Browser Bundle:
https://www.torproject.org/download/
Then visit https://defcon.social and click the purple onion icon in the […]
[Original post on defcon.social]
Last-minute maintenance window:
If all goes well, expect a 3-5 minute service interruption to defcon.social some time between 7pm-8pm pacific time on Thursday, January 16, 2025.
Thanks!
If all goes well, expect a 3-5 minute service interruption to defcon.social some time between 7pm-8pm pacific time on Thursday, January 16, 2025.
Thanks!
January 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Last-minute maintenance window:
If all goes well, expect a 3-5 minute service interruption to defcon.social some time between 7pm-8pm pacific time on Thursday, January 16, 2025.
Thanks!
If all goes well, expect a 3-5 minute service interruption to defcon.social some time between 7pm-8pm pacific time on Thursday, January 16, 2025.
Thanks!
We know about the pending TLS Cert expiration for https://info.defcon.org/ in a few minutes and work is being done to get a replacement.
We also know about the pending TLS cert expiration for https://plus.defcon.org/ (in a few hours.)
There is no need to let us know about these.
Thanks!
CC […]
We also know about the pending TLS cert expiration for https://plus.defcon.org/ (in a few hours.)
There is no need to let us know about these.
Thanks!
CC […]
Original post on defcon.social
defcon.social
January 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
We know about the pending TLS Cert expiration for https://info.defcon.org/ in a few minutes and work is being done to get a replacement.
We also know about the pending TLS cert expiration for https://plus.defcon.org/ (in a few hours.)
There is no need to let us know about these.
Thanks!
CC […]
We also know about the pending TLS cert expiration for https://plus.defcon.org/ (in a few hours.)
There is no need to let us know about these.
Thanks!
CC […]
Network maintenance interruption in the window of 7-8pm pacific time on Sunday Dec 29, 2024 should be complete.
Service interruption lasted about 3 minutes from around 7:30pm until around 7:33pm.
Please let us know if you see issues with DEF CON Services including defcon.social
Thanks!
cc […]
Service interruption lasted about 3 minutes from around 7:30pm until around 7:33pm.
Please let us know if you see issues with DEF CON Services including defcon.social
Thanks!
cc […]
Original post on defcon.social
defcon.social
December 30, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Network maintenance interruption in the window of 7-8pm pacific time on Sunday Dec 29, 2024 should be complete.
Service interruption lasted about 3 minutes from around 7:30pm until around 7:33pm.
Please let us know if you see issues with DEF CON Services including defcon.social
Thanks!
cc […]
Service interruption lasted about 3 minutes from around 7:30pm until around 7:33pm.
Please let us know if you see issues with DEF CON Services including defcon.social
Thanks!
cc […]
Hello, we have more network equipment maintenance for DEF CON network...
If all goes well, you should expect a 3-5 minute service interruption to most DEF CON services (website, forums, defcon.social, etc.) some time in the windows of December 29, 2024 between 8-9pm pacific time.
CC: @TCMBC […]
If all goes well, you should expect a 3-5 minute service interruption to most DEF CON services (website, forums, defcon.social, etc.) some time in the windows of December 29, 2024 between 8-9pm pacific time.
CC: @TCMBC […]
Original post on defcon.social
defcon.social
December 28, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Hello, we have more network equipment maintenance for DEF CON network...
If all goes well, you should expect a 3-5 minute service interruption to most DEF CON services (website, forums, defcon.social, etc.) some time in the windows of December 29, 2024 between 8-9pm pacific time.
CC: @TCMBC […]
If all goes well, you should expect a 3-5 minute service interruption to most DEF CON services (website, forums, defcon.social, etc.) some time in the windows of December 29, 2024 between 8-9pm pacific time.
CC: @TCMBC […]
Planned maintenance (previously announced) between 8-9pm pacific time on aturday, December 14, 2024 is complete. Service interruption for most online DEF CON services lasted around 3 minutes.
Please let us know if you see issues since network equipment maintenance was completed.
Thanks!
CC […]
Please let us know if you see issues since network equipment maintenance was completed.
Thanks!
CC […]
Original post on defcon.social
defcon.social
December 15, 2024 at 3:58 AM
Planned maintenance (previously announced) between 8-9pm pacific time on aturday, December 14, 2024 is complete. Service interruption for most online DEF CON services lasted around 3 minutes.
Please let us know if you see issues since network equipment maintenance was completed.
Thanks!
CC […]
Please let us know if you see issues since network equipment maintenance was completed.
Thanks!
CC […]
We have planned maintenance on network equipment that will impact most defcon.org online resources including https://defcon.social ...
If all goes well, some time between 7-8pm pacific time on Saturday, December 14, 2024, there will be a 3-5 minute service interruption to most online DEF CON […]
If all goes well, some time between 7-8pm pacific time on Saturday, December 14, 2024, there will be a 3-5 minute service interruption to most online DEF CON […]
Original post on defcon.social
defcon.social
December 13, 2024 at 11:28 PM
We have planned maintenance on network equipment that will impact most defcon.org online resources including https://defcon.social ...
If all goes well, some time between 7-8pm pacific time on Saturday, December 14, 2024, there will be a 3-5 minute service interruption to most online DEF CON […]
If all goes well, some time between 7-8pm pacific time on Saturday, December 14, 2024, there will be a 3-5 minute service interruption to most online DEF CON […]
Six new accounts signed up, six new accounts suspended for fake company spam, Thai gambling sites, and the usual mix of bogus SEO activities.
December 6, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Six new accounts signed up, six new accounts suspended for fake company spam, Thai gambling sites, and the usual mix of bogus SEO activities.