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after about 2 weeks of downtime, it’s back. i ended up doing an upgrade to the latest version straight instead of following the long recommended path. it seems to have worked. i think the mastodon-sidekiq service had just stalled and restarting that would have fixed everything anyway
5/6 is good enough dont worry about it