Born to type "colour", forced to type "color"

@tophhie.cloud was kind enough to make a PR to label-watcher today to send email notifications when a new account is created on your PDS to help combat spam. Thank you! tangled.org/baileytownse...

Want to know more about the recent bot activity, what we've seen, and what we've done/are doing? Check out our write-up here! ✒️ 🔗 blog.tophhie.cloud/increased-bo... Special mentions: @revfox84.bsky.social, @michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu, @bmann.ca, and @baileytownsend.dev.

Bot activity is not tolerated on @tophhie.social. We are actively monitoring, and accounts will be swiftly removed once detected. #pds #atproto #federation

We're rolling out a new policy; "Account Inactivity & Deletion Policy". Current Tophhie Social users have been made aware via their registered email address. New users will be advised in their welcome email. You can read the policy here. 🔗 blog.tophhie.cloud/atproto-acco... #atproto #pds

Due to an increase in the number of bot accounts registering to Tophhie Social, hCaptcha verification is now enforced for new signups. Programmatic signup is disallowed. Thanks to @michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu, @bmann.ca, and @revfox84.bsky.social for their warning! 🙂 #pds #atproto #federation

The Tophhie Cloud Redirect Service has finally been decoupled from the Tophhie Cloud API! Integrated into @cloudflare.social Workers, Hyperdrive, and a D1 database 🚀 Want to know how it works/how I did it...? 🔗 blog.tophhie.cloud/were-decoupl... #cloudflare #api #development #restapi

Ads... they're bloody annoying. Here's my write-up on how I managed to successfully block a large portion of ads across my networks with @cloudflare.social! 🚫 🔗 blog.tophhie.cloud/how-i-blocke... #zerotrust #ads #networking #dns #blocked

Tophhie Social always intends to be free... we want to be an open space, free for people to come and go as they please. However, we do have operational costs. If you're a supporter of what we're doing here, or would like to contribute to our efforts, please consider donating! 🔗 ko-fi.com/tophhie

@tophhie.social and the other Tophhie Cloud apps and services all run on kind donations. We don't force payment to use any of our apps, and we never want to. However, if you're able to, and a supporter of what we're doing, please consider donating. 🔗 ko-fi.com/tophhie

Tophhie Social Uptime for February 2026! ✅ Uptime: 99.99% ❗ Incidents: 1 ⏲️ Total Downtime: 179 seconds ✅ Target Uptime Met

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Went to Newcastle for my birthday 🎁 lost at junkyard golf, but won at Guitar Hero 🎸

Tophhie Social just got more welcoming... ❤️ We'll start issuing out welcome emails to all new (and existing) users starting today! #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

In addition to @bsky.app you can register on: @tophhie.social @selfhosted.social @blackskyweb.xyz @eurosky.social @transrights.northsky.social for using many #ATproto services

But it can buy rope!

I've been working on #Azure File Shares recently, and came across "Cloud #Kerberos"! Here's my rundown, and how to configure it for macOS 🍎 🔗 blog.tophhie.cloud/configuring-... #entraid #entra #microsoft #tophhiecloud #azuread #identity #security

Tophhie Social Uptime for January 2026! ✅ Uptime: 99.83% ❗ Incidents: 7 ⏲️ Total Downtime: 4732 seconds ❌ Target Uptime Missed

Made it to Friday... but at what cost? 😴

Oh hey. We announced *when* we're disabling NTLM by default. Hint: soon.

This doesn't feel like Apple at all. The new Apple Creator Suite apps are separate downloads from the regular versions. What a mess!

You can upload custom GIFs. (Still seeing people ask about this.)

We've introduced a new column to the Tophhie Social Server status page! 🚀 "Service Endpoint Match" 🔗 status.tophhie.social This column serves to show whether the PLC document for that account, points correctly to Tophhie Social. #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

Don't want to participate in Accessibility Scoring? That's ok! 😊 Simply flip the switch over at profile.tophhie.social and you'll be opted out ✔️ Your score will then be erased overnight, and you'll be flagged as "opt-ed out" on the status page. #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

Opt-in and out of accessibility scoring, withdraw from the Tophhie Social homepage, and opt-out of marketing emails... All included in this first initial release! 🔗 profile.tophhie.social #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

first monday of 2026

* at work today *

Apologies all, it would appear Tophhie Social saw quite a lot of activity this evening! And it made our server work a little harder than it would've liked... 🚀 We've scaled up the PDS to cater to the increased demand! #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

Interested in knowing what happened here... well, the post incident report is now live! And it's a bit of silly mistake to make... 😅 🔗 news.tophhie.social/3mbhu3s5wkk2d #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

We're now on @leaflet.pub! Just another place for you to keep up to date with the latest going ons at Tophhie Social 🚀 🔗 news.tophhie.social #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

⚠️ We have identified an issue that resulted in Tophhie Social users not receiving emails from the PDS. This was caused due to a typo in a recent configuration change... ✅ This has now been resolved! Those attempting to verify their email address, or receive 2FA codes should no longer see issues.

Whoops! Looks like access to our signup and migrate pages were accidently blocked for everyone... that's not what we wanted, at all. Access has been restored ✅ 🔗 tophhie.social/signup 🔗 tophhie.social/migrate #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

Tophhie Social Uptime for December 2025! ✅ Uptime: 99.88% ❗ Incidents: 2 ⏲️ Total Downtime: 3356 seconds ❌ Target Uptime Missed

2025 was the start of @tophhie.social... 2026 we go further! ✨ #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

Got no idea what time it is, what day it is, what moon phase were in. Not a thought in my head this week ✨

Merry Christmas!! 🎄🎅🏻

We're aware the video upload issue to Bluesky while having your account hosted on Tophhie Social is still ongoing... 😞 Whilst we're working on a permanent solution, we've published further information on the issue, and guidance on the workaround. 🔗 support.tophhie.cloud/portal/en/kb...

Experiencing an issue with Tophhie Social? Or have a question? 🤔 Well, the Tophhie Cloud support portal is now open! 🚀 🔗 support.tophhie.cloud #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

The new Tophhie Cloud support portal has now launched 🚀 Key features include: • Raising support requests • Checking support request status • Community forums • Knowledge base for our varying apps and services 🔗 support.tophhie.cloud #pds #atproto #federation #tophhiecloud

Need help with @tophhie.social or just have a question...? 💭 Well, now you can reach us directly on our homepage! Simply click/tap the chat icon in the bottom left hand corner! 🔗 tophhie.social #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

We're aware of an issue when uploading videos... You may receive this error message when uploading videos to Bluesky. As a temporary workaround, we recommend logging out, and then logging back in using the custom server "pds.tophhie.cloud". #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

Tophhie Cloud and @tophhie.social now have their own #Discord server! 🤖 Anyone is welcome to join, whether you're using Tophhie Cloud services or not... 🔗 discord.gg/YD8sF8JsCJ #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

Monitoring of Tophhie Cloud apps and services is moving! 🚀 We're now making use of @openstatus.dev to monitor all our internal services, and public apps! (inc. @tophhie.social). 🔗 status.tophhie.cloud cc. @thibaultleouay.dev #tophhiecloud #uptime #opensource #dev

Apple Music Replay came as an absolute shock… to no one 🤐 #applemusic #replay

Accessibility Scores are now accessible via the tophhie.social domain! ✨ @tophhie.social users can simply replace the DID with their own DID. 🔗 tophhie.social/accessibilityScore?did=did:plc:ggobmtqnjirtchpwgydxoecb #pds #atproto #bluesky #accessibility #inclusive

I have some exciting news that I can share today. PDS MOOver's last update was made possible because of a generous grant from Bluesky PBC! Thanks to them supporting my work done on pdsmoover.com and selfhosted.social, it allowed me to go to the next level with fully automated backups!

And there we have it! They're live... ✨ #pds #atproto #bluesky #accessibility #inclusive

An inclusive internet is a better internet. That's why we're publishing a new accessibility score on the @tophhie.social status page! 🙂 Read more in this post... #pds #atproto #bluesky #accessibility #inclusive

New addition to the @tophhie.social status page! ✨ • Total Cloudflare R2 Blob Count is now shown. 🔗 status.tophhie.social #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

Not much to report in the @tophhie.social #ATmosphere at the moment! Things are ticking over nicely... uptime is solid... threats are being blocked... 🛡️ #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud