trumpet@mastodon.scot

HELLO EVERYONE! It's the start of a new month, and that means it's time for another fundraising post 🙂

This server is funded entirely by the generosity of our users, and we're hugely grateful!

We've been very lucky to have broken even for the last few years but need to keep it up, which is why I send these reminders every month.

If you'd like to donate, you can do so via card or PayPal at https://ko-fi.com/trumpet

And if you already donate, then THANK YOU! ❤️

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS!

And welcome to our first fundraising post of 2026 🙂

This server is funded entirely by the generosity of our users, and we're hugely grateful!

We've been very lucky to have broken even for the last few years but need to keep it up, which is why I send these reminders every month!

If you'd like to donate, you can do so via card or PayPal at https://ko-fi.com/trumpet

And if you already donate, then THANK YOU! ❤️

HI FOLKS! 🙂

We've just upgraded to Mastodon v4.5.3, more details here:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.3

HI THERE FOLKS!

This server is funded entirely by the generosity of our users, and we're hugely grateful!

We've been very lucky to have broken even for the last few years but need to keep it up, and so I need to keep sending fundraiser messages 🙂

If you'd like to donate, you can do so via card or PayPal at https://ko-fi.com/trumpet

And if you already donate, then THANK YOU! ❤️

Hello there! We've just upgraded to Mastodon v4.5.2. More details here:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.2

😎

@privateblack@mastodon.social AMD Epyc 7401P, 128GB RAM, 2x1TB NVMe.

Hi everyone! I have some bad news and some good news for you...

BAD NEWS:

Over the last couple of days we've had some serious outages. This is almost certainly due to a hardware failure on our primary server.

Also, Cloudflare (a company whose job it is to keep the internet from falling over,) has fallen over today. As we use them for our cache/firewall and media storage, this has caused some issues with mastodon.scot.

GOOD NEWS:

While Cloudflare was down we migrated to a new server!

😎 ❤️

@JackTheCat@mastodon.scot @latelesley@mastodon.scot We've had what I think are hardware issues on our server. Investigating that at the moment. And then Cloudflare breaks too!

Oh hullo there! Happy Friday!

We've just upgraded to Mastodon v4.5.1 which fixes a few things from last week's massive v4.5.0 update.

More info here!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.1

🙂