Roles (user, moderator, administrator) from the CLI and /clientapi/admin/roots/{id}/role, never one's own nor the last
administrator. Silence keeps an account's posts out of public timelines, hashtags, trends, search and relays while its
followers still get them; suspension refuses and revokes a local persona's tokens, answers 404 for its posts and
collections, holds back every delivery and tells other servers nothing new, its actor unchanged; a suspended remote
account's activities are dropped and nothing goes to its own inbox (a shared one still serves its server). A banned
login's personas are held back in memory alone (Restrictions), so nothing pairs them in stored data. Personas and groups
are deleted one at a time (PersonaRemoval, GroupRemoval), by their login or an administrator with the password. Reports
resolve with an action and a note; posts are taken down, a remote copy hidden. Warnings reach the persona as Mastodon's
moderation_warning. Every staff act goes to the staff's log. Migration _020 limits posts from servers already silenced;
a restore keeps the moderation made since the backup.
Verified: interop.sh moderation gts mastodon with SecureMode, 194 passed; restore.sh, 25 passed, now with a suspension,
a silence and a takedown made after the backup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WpVCoDeM1qUTRp4fXQdfof
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
thepraandClaude Opus 5.5