A singleton ServerSettings (title, descriptions, contact, thumbnail, privacy policy, terms, rules, relays, media
overrides, PublishActivity), cached by InstanceSettings and read by the instance API, NodeInfo, the instance actor, the
web pages and the mailer; its defaults are the old literals, so nothing changes until an administrator edits.
/clientapi/admin/settings (and /thumbnail), /announcements, /relays for administrators; /clientapi/moderator/log, the
staff's log (AdminAction, written by domain blocks, backups, settings and the CLI; no IP, never a root paired with its
personas). The Mastodon API's rules, extended description, privacy policy, terms of service, domain blocks (Published,
Obfuscate), announcements (dismiss, reactions, streaming) and activity (only when published). Reports carry rule ids.
Media overrides clamped to hard caps. Relays named by the settings reconcile next to the configured ones.
Verified: interop.sh instance accounts relay with mastodon, relay, aoderelay and mailpit, 119 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WpVCoDeM1qUTRp4fXQdfof
- Blocks are per persona and never federate (a Block activity would tell
the other server who blocked whom): the blocked account is removed as a
follower, with a Reject{Follow} if it is remote, unfollowed, cleared from
home and notifications, and refused with Reject if it follows again.
- Mutes (optionally timed, optionally sparing notifications) and per-
persona domain blocks keep authors out of home timelines, notifications
and every status list the API returns; the boosts of a hidden author's
posts are hidden too.
- Bookmarks and pins (at most five, public or unlisted, own posts) with
their Mastodon endpoints and flags; pinned posts are the actor's
`featured` collection at /trophies, and `featuredTags` points at
/tattoos.
- Reports: /api/v1/reports stores the report and, when forwarding to a
remote account, sends Flag from the instance actor, so the reporting
persona is never named to the other server. An inbound Flag about a local
persona or its posts becomes a report; moderators list and resolve them
under /clientapi/moderator/reports.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012CzABvBkbcFqoHdmi8b9WB
thepraandClaude Opus 5.5