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Mastodon v4.1.4 upgrade

Run on July 7th, 20235:40 pm Pacific: Working on cleaning up the CloudFormation deployment which failed during the 4.1.1 update.10:05 pm: Shutting down the load balancer and backing up the database.10:39 pm: CloudFormation template update complete. Re-ena...

Transparency Report, June 2023

Keeping up with regular transparency reports has been a challenge. I want to be open about the operations of the site, though, so instead of saying "sorry", I'll just get us up to date.General StatisticsAs on June 2023, MontereyBay.social has 39 members,...

Maintenance update: Mastodon 4.1 and new region

On February 16th, we updated the instance to run Mastodon 4.1 and moved to the AWS datacenter located in California. The maintenance window took longer than anticipated due to problems executing the latest CloudFormation templates.TimelineAll events are d...