Waffle's yttrx blog

A little technology blog following my adventures of setting up internet services.

Notes from getting yttrx , a Mastodon community server, up and running: email, defederation tooling, database tuning, and whatever else broke along the way.

Recent

bringing breath back to this journal

I first started capturing some of my technical notes in this journal when starting yttrx.com back in 2022, but eventually fell off maintaining it. Recently, I’ve been doing a bunch of spam/abuse mitigation work on the yttrx signup and abuse reporting workflows, and it hit me that I should probably knock the dust off of this journal. So I migrated it away from jekyll and onto hugo, using a theme that’s consistent with the welcome.yttrx.com site that i recently stood up, and here i’ll keep some of my technical notes on running a mastodon server and dealing with the headaches that it involves.