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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

We have a maintenance window September 1, 2026 between 6 and 7 pm pacific time, PDT, America/Los_Angeles, UTC-7. if all goes well, there will be 2 interruptions to service. One should last a few seconds, and the other last 3 to 5 minutes. CC: @TCMBC @thedarktangent

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

We have a planned maintenance window for defcon.social today, August 13, 2026 between 9-10pm pacific time, PDT, America/Los_Angeles, UTC-7. if all goes well, you should expect 2 service interruptions. one lasting a few seconds, and the other lasting 3-5 minutes. CC: @TCMBC @thedarktangent

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

We have a planned maintenance window for around 1 hour between 7pm and 8pm pacific time, PDT, America/Los_Angeles, UTC-7. If all goes well, only a few WWW services at DEF CON will be impacted for about 3-7 minutes (defcon.org media.defcon.org infocon.org ) within this […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Is the defcon.social account you use claiming your account is locked since July 30, 2026? We announced plans to require all defcon.social accounts use 2FA on July 5, 2026: defcon.social/@support/116871505918… We made 2FA required for all defcon.social accounts on July 30, 2026 […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Today is the day, we have just enabled mandatory 2FA for #DefCon Social.

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Hello, We have a planned maintenance window today between 9-10am Pacific Time, PDT, America/Los_Angeles, UTC-7. If all goes well, there will be 2 service interruptions some time within this 1 hour maintenance window: one lasting 2-3 minutes another lasting a few seconds Thanks! CC: @TCMBC […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

RE: defcon.social/@support/116871505918… It is almost time for us to enable mandatory 2FA on #DefCon Social. We will enable on July 30th, please take this weekend to do it in advance!

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

If you have already enabled 2FA you can ignore this announcement. Hello people (and a few bots) of DCS! DEF CON Social will require 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) for all accounts by the end of July 2026 to enhance security and dissuade automated credential […] [Original post on defcon.social]

DefCon.Social standard artwork: Cybernaught girl against a sky of stars and DefCon icons.

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

We have a planned maintenance window from noon (12pm) until 1pm Pacific time, PDT, America/Los_Angeles, UTC-7. If all goes well, www services (defcon.org media.defcon.org infocon.org etc.) will see a 3-5 minute service interruption. This should not impact other […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

We had a brief interruption in services lasting a few seconds starting at around 11:57:01 PM Pacific Time, PDT, America/Los_Angeles, UTC-7 to ensure a security update to a library is included in running mastodon services. Please let us know if you notice issues. Thanks! cc: @TCMBC @thedarktangent

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

We have a maintenance window for just the main "DEF CON website" (defcon.org) The maintenance window is 12:00pm (noon) until 1:00pm Pacific Time, PDT, America/Los_Angeles, UTC-7. If all goes well, there will be a service interruption just to www lasting from 4-8 minutes, and hopefully […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

We accidentally left the two FA requirement enabled overnight while testing the new version of mastodon. We have turned it off for now as we evaluate the best way to deploy it with the least inconvenience for users.

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Hello followers, We have a planned maintenance window for defcon.social later tonigh, July 4, 2026 between 8:00-9:00pm Pacific time, PDT, America/Los_Angeles, UTC-7. If all goes well, you may see an interruption lasting from a few seconds to 6 minutes. cc: @TCMBC @thedarktangent

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Now with Mastodon 4.6.3 releases we are working to upgrade. One of the new features we will be enabling is new sign ups requiring 2FA to make credential stuffing not viable.

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Sorry for the short network interruption, when adding redundant power to a switch a network card got confused. It showed link as up, but was really down and only a power cycle got things happy.

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Big excitement in tonight extended maintenance window, we will consolidate the different servers into one rack, our file server, DB server, and main front end server. During each move there should be a few minutes of down time.

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

We are testing additional AI scraping filters, please let us know if you notice any strange or different behavior. If all goes as planned you shouldn’t notice a thing.

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

With the release of Mastodon 4.6 we will wait for a week or two before upgrading. Usually with a major release there is a flurry up minor updates and fixes, and each one would require downtime and testing. But waiting a couple weeks we hope to have a more stable experience for everyone.

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

We have a planned maintenance window for defcon.social today, May 20, 2026 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm PDT, Pacific Time, America/Los_Angeles, UTC-7. If all goes well, there should be an interruption lasting from 1-10 seconds. CC: @TCMBC @thedarktangent

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

Hello everyone, We have another maintenance window approaching. On Wednesday, May 5, 2026 between 8-9 pm Pacific time, PDT, America/Los_Angeles, UTC-7, if all things work out well, you should expect a 2-5 minute service interruption to most DEF CON services. Thanks! CC: @TCMBC @thedarktangent

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

Hello members/followers, We have a planned maintenance window Tuesday, March 24, 2026 between 8-9pm Pacific Time, PDT, America/Los_Angeles, UTC-7. If all goes well, some time within this hour there will be a 3-5 minute service interruption to defcon.social. Thanks! CC: @TCMBC @thedarktangent

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

Sorry for the temporary outage. Seattle had a wind storm and a circuit breaker popped, and a UPS drained. Everything is back up, but we are now making a shopping list to be able to diversify over more breakers and have better alerting from the UPS systems.

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

We have been suspending a lot of inauthentic bot accounts that post non-stop about conflicts. Many of the accounts are connected with each other. Some start by boosting posts for a while before posting themselves, many were also connected on the blue sky bridge. We are sure there are many still […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Maintenance window for many DEF CON services coming up Wednesday, March 4, 2026 between 8-10pm Pacific time, PST, America/Los_Angeles, UTC-8. Some time within this 2 hour window, several services may suffer interruptions lasting a total of around 30 minutes within that 2 hour window. Most […]

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Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

#MastoAdmin reminder if you are running on SSD. Linux has atime enabled by default, so to reduce wear consider turning it off with “zfs set atime=off yourpoolname”

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

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

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

Automated Russian propaganda bot accounts will be suspended as they are discovered.

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

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.

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

Periodically searching for support% in accounts tab from all locations and suspending the fake support accounts helps you get ahead of the problem. #FediAdmin

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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ @cryptadamist.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

Ω🪬Ω 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]

screenshot of fedialgo multiselect for hashtag filters

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2025

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!

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2025

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!

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2025

"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 […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2025

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

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025

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”

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025

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 […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025

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 […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025

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

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2025

Welcome to the recent signups to our #DEFCON.social Tor .onion address!

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2025

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

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

We have simplified our #DEFCON.social rules to fit one one page 😂 Nothing has changed, we just condensed and streamlined them.

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2025

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

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2025

Just a reminder, defcon.social is also reachable as a .onion site for those that want to participate anonymously. Download the Tor Browser Bundle: www.torproject.org/download Then visit defcon.social and click the purple onion icon in the […] [Original post on defcon.social]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2025

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!

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2025

We know about the pending TLS Cert expiration for 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 plus.defcon.org (in a few hours.) There is no need to let us know about these. Thanks! CC […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2024

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 […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2024

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 […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2024

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 […]

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support@defcon.social @support.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2024

We have planned maintenance on network equipment that will impact most defcon.org online resources including 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 […]

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