catching up on the anti-abuse stack: welcomebot, abuse-bot, and the new signup scrutiny
What's changed lately in yttrx's anti-abuse tooling: welcome-bot, the report-driven abuse-bot, and two new signals at the signup gate.
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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.
yttrx mastodon antispam
Email is a pain: spam edition
yttrx mastodon remote postgres
Preparing for being able to run the database off host
yttrx mastodon pgbouncer
I don't understand why pgbouncer isn't enabled by default
yttrx mastodon defederation
Defederation isn't new
yttrx mastodon email
Email is a pain.
yttrx mastodon introduction
The other week a friend and I decided to spin up a Mastodon instance to play around with it.