Posts in 2023
Security incident: Redis cache exposed to public internet
Sunday, July 16, 2023 in Incidents
Background Between July 9 and July 16, 2023, one of Hachyderm’s Redis cache servers was exposed to the public internet. On July 16, 2023, the Hachyderm Infrastructure team identified a misconfiguration of our firewall on the cache server which …
A Minute from the Moderators
Friday, July 07, 2023 in Posts
Hello and welcome to this month’s Moderator Minutes. Apologies for missing June, we have a blog post that we’ll post later this month as a belated post for June. The short version is we were completing that one while compiling for this one, and a lot …
Crypto Spam Attacks on Fediverse
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 in Announcements
The Situation Starting around 8 May 2023, we began to receive reports that Mastodon Social was being inundated with crypto spam. Initially, it appeared that only Mastodon Social, and then Mastodon World, were impacted. In each case we Limited the …
A Minute from the Moderators
Monday, May 08, 2023 in Posts
Hello Hachydermia! It’s time for, you guessed it, the monthly Moderator Minute! Recently, our founder and former admin stepped down. As sad as we are to see her go, this does provide an excellent segue into the topics that we wanted to cover in …
Moderation Postmortem
Tuesday, May 02, 2023 in Incidents
Hello Hachydermians! There has been a lot of confusion this week, so we’re writing up this blog post to be both a postmortem of sorts and a single source of truth. This is partly to combat some of the problems generated by hearsay: hearsay generates …
Stepping Down From Hachyderm
Sunday, April 30, 2023 in Posts
Stepping Down From Hachyderm Recently I abruptly removed myself from the “Admin” position of Hachyderm. This has surfaced a number of threads about me, Hachyderm, and the broader Fediverse. Today I would like to offer an apology as well …
A Minute from the Moderators
Wednesday, April 05, 2023 in Posts
Hello and welcome to April! This month we’ll be reviewing the account verification process we rolled out as well as two more classic moderation topics: how to file a report and what to do if you’re moderated. Account Verification Mastodon …
A Minute from the Moderators
Thursday, March 16, 2023 in Posts
We’ve been working hard to build out more of the Community Documentation to help everyone to create a wonderful experience on Hachyderm. For the past month, we’ve focused most heavily on our new How to Hachyderm section. The docs in this …
Decaf Ko-Fi: Launching GitHub Sponsors et al
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 in Posts
Since our massive growth at the end of last year, many of you have asked about ways to donate beyond Nóva’s Ko-Fi. There were a few limitations there, notably the need to create an account in order to donate. There were a few milestones we …
TLS Expires: media.hachyderm.io
Monday, February 27, 2023 in Incidents
On February 28th, 2023 at approximately 01:55 UTC Hachyderm experienced a service degradation in which images failed to load in production. We were able to quickly identify the root cause as expired TLS certificates in production for …