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.
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Starts the completion program (docs/ROADMAP.md, "Owner decisions on finishing everything", 2026-10-17).
- Dead code: the commented-out collAnon blocks (discussions, seeding, admin user lists, HTTP/3, the old signature
middleware), the empty PrivaPubWorkersConfiguration, PublicAvatarUsersService and UserPolicyType, unused helpers,
the second IPasswordHasher registration, the PasswordGenerator package, SignUpAsync/LoginAsync's unused invitation
parameters. "Starting PrivaPub"; a signed-in login is sent to "/", not to "/discussions".
- Stored fields nothing read: RootUser.Contacts and ResetPasswordToken*, the local Avatar.AvatarServer,
EmailRecovery.RecoveryCode/RequestIP/CreationDate, MongoSettings.LogsDatabase, and AppConfiguration's
upload/discussion keys, RequiresFirstTimeSetup and Version (old documents still load: MongoDB.Entities ignores extra
elements). DmPost's indexes are no longer made. 49 collAnon keys leave FieldsNameResource in every language.
- /clientapi/data/current-version answers the build's ref. UsersIds is a list that can't throw, and the admin routes
leave the administrator out without mutating the request.
- deploy.yml checks SecureMode on a name no persona can have, and the browser redirect on the directory's first local
persona: @thepra is the administrator's own now.
- Town: decePub's e2e remnants (expect, client.jsonl, the decePub column) and town/tests go; the dead gaps/load
commands too. Mobilizon no longer keeps an event for a deleted test.
- tools/pasture/sweep.sh runs every peer's scenario, batch by batch, as CLAUDE.md asks before a change to what
PrivaPub sends.
- Docs: CLAUDE.md's repo map, route table (every frozen route) and stale lines; ROADMAP's status (setup, v1.25.0,
v1.26.0, the program C), the 2026-10-17 decisions, and dated notes where earlier text no longer holds; FEDERATION.md's
FEP list (7888, f228, 7628, ae0c and 8967 supported) and the deploy's persona.
Verified: dotnet build PrivaPub.sln -c Release (0 errors, no new warnings); bash -n on the touched scripts; py_compile
on the town; the pasture's gts, mastodon and lemmy scenarios on this build.
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tools/pasture/scenarios/restore.sh backs the pasture up from the administrator's endpoint, then alice_restore deletes a
post and makes another, mastouser follows her, she blocks bob_restore and carol_restore is made; the restore, asked for
from the endpoint, keeps every protective act (19 checks). town.sh renew <peer> signs a peer's town accounts in again,
since a restore ends every session.
It found that a backup listed media files already missing when it was made, so verifying it failed and the restore was
refused: a manifest now lists only the files it holds (refusals are cut to five lines). And a local post made after the
backup now comes back as a deleted row, as a deletion leaves it, so it answers 410 and its id is never given again;
DeletedObject holds remote tombstones only.
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PrivaPub admin restore <id> (and soon the administrator's page) checks the backup (same host, a format and newest
migration this build reads, every hash) and writes restore.json; the running service sees it within seconds and stops,
and the next start restores it in MaintenanceGate, before migrations, indexes and hosted services: a pre-restore backup
taken once, every collection dropped and imported raw with its indexes, the media the live directory lacks brought
back, then the protective merge from the pre-restore backup. Followers and follows are the live ones; blocks, mutes,
domain blocks, reserved names, tombstones, reports, filters and OAuth applications are the union; deletions win;
accounts made since become tombstones and local posts made since answer 410; every session ends.
Each attempt redoes everything; one refused before any change is abandoned and recorded, one failed midway exits 1 for
systemd to retry, and after three it exits 75, which the unit no longer restarts. Commands wait (exit 75) while a
restore is pending. RestoreRecord tells what happened (admin restore --status).
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