Tophhie Social's origin server was reachable directly, bypassing @cloudflare.social entirely. Found it, closed it with Authenticated Origin Pulls, and added automated abuse blocking on top. Wrote up what happened and how it's fixed. 🚪 🔗 www.tophhie.cloud/closing-the-... #pds #federation #atproto

Closing the back door on Tophhie Social

A couple of weeks ago I went looking for a gap in how Tophhie Social's infrastructure was set up, and I found one.

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Tophhie Social Uptime for July 2026! ✅ Uptime: 100.00% ❗ Incidents: 0 ⏲️ Total Downtime: 0 seconds ✅ Target Uptime Met

Tophhie Social is now fully documented. You can get started, read more, troubleshoot, all from the Tophhie Cloud Docs. The best part...? It's all open source! Nothing something's wrong or inaccurate, submit a PR ✅ docs.tophhie.cloud/tophhie-soci... #atproto #docs #documentation #pds #federation

Tophhie Social Uptime for June 2026! ✅ Uptime: 99.03% ❗ Incidents: 1 ⏲️ Total Downtime: 25546 seconds ❌ Target Uptime Missed

We hit an issue in the early hours of this morning (Tues 23rd June 2026) that caused the PDS to be down for a total of 7 hours. Firstly, huge apologies for this. Secondly, the issue is now resolved, and we're back online. The full write-up is available here. www.tophhie.cloud/post-inciden...

Post Incident Report: Tophhie Social – 23rd June 2026

A valid certificate, a healthy backend, a reachable endpoint — and a totally dead PDS. The culprit was a single Cloudflare toggle on a different domain, flipped two days earlier. A post-incident write...

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Hey so I really need some help with Malachite et al (https://croft.click) development. I’m getting stressed out about not being able to get bugs fixed due to a myriad of factors and improving my tools. Please, please do help me out here. Either spread the word or directly contribute. Thanks. 💚

Tophhie Social Uptime for May 2026! ✅ Uptime: 100.00% ❗ Incidents: 0 ⏲️ Total Downtime: 0 seconds ✅ Target Uptime Met

Up next on the Tophhie Cloud Design System overhaul... our status page! 📊 The status page has been redesigned to incorporate all the Tophhie Cloud design elements, it's now more modern, and easier on the eye 👀 🔗 status.tophhie.social #federation #tophhiecloud #design #web #atproto #pds

Introducing Takedown Notifications! 📣 To improve on our transparency, we’re letting accounts know when we takedown their atproto account (or reinstate it) on @tophhie.social. Giving users the opportunity to appeal, and reach out should a mistake have been made. #atproto #federation #bluesky #pds

Tophhie Social emails will now follow the Tophhie Cloud Design System. Starting with 2FA codes... 🔒 #atproto #tophhiecloud #federation #bluesky #pds

📋 Heads up - the Tophhie Social policies (Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Account Inactivity & Deletion Policy) have moved to the Tophhie Cloud Trust Center. Nothing has changed — just a new home. 🏠 trust.tophhie.cloud #atproto #federation #tophhiecloud #policies #policy

Introducing the new Tophhie Cloud Policies portal. We're working to make our policies more accessible, inc. Tophhie Social. These policies are now available in our new portal 📝 🔗 policies.tophhie.cloud #atproto #pds #policies #terms

Tophhie Social Uptime for April 2026! ✅ Uptime: 100.00% ❗ Incidents: 0 ⏲️ Total Downtime: 0 seconds ✅ Target Uptime Met

Thanks to @anthropic.com's new Claude Design, Tophhie Social is getting a re-brand, following our new Design System. The Tophhie Social dashboard is the first to see this new look, with other components and apps coming soon... 🔗 tophhie.social #pds #atproto #claude #ai #federation #bluesky

Tophhie Social Uptime for March 2026! ✅ Uptime: 100.00% ❗ Incidents: 0 ⏲️ Total Downtime: 0 seconds ✅ Target Uptime Met

Full transparency? Want to know your "inactivity start date"/"last activity date"? Well, we've just published them on our status page. 🔗 status.tophhie.social #pds #atproto #federation

Tophhie Social@tophhie.social · 5mo ago

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

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.

Increased Bot Activity & What We're Doing About It

Tophhie Social has seen a sharp increase in the number of bots on our platform. Here's what we're doing about it...

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We are actively monitoring the creation of accounts within Tophhie Social to ensure bot activity is prevented. So far, so good 👍 If you notice anything suspicious from any Tophhie Social account, please do let us know 🙂 #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

Tophhie Cloud Personal Data Server - Account Inactivity & Deletion Policy

Effective Date: 17th March 2026

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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

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

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

Introducing: Welcome Emails! 📩 We're starting to issue out welcome emails to all new (and existing) users of @tophhie.social! Want to check out the code for this? You can find it here... 🔗 github.com/Tophhie/toph... #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

Thank you for your patience whilst we resolved the problem! The issue has now been resolved and service has been restored. Any issues, please reach out at help@tophhie.cloud.

Tophhie Social@tophhie.social · 7mo ago

We're aware of an issue currently affecting the ability to log into Tophhie Social, and receive 2FA codes. We're found the cause of the problem and are working on a fix now. Thank you to @jess.catgirl.zone for bringing this to our attention.

We're aware of an issue currently affecting the ability to log into Tophhie Social, and receive 2FA codes. We're found the cause of the problem and are working on a fix now. Thank you to @jess.catgirl.zone for bringing this to our attention.

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

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

We've just deployed a new Tophhie Social app. Tophhie Social Profile 🚀 Now you can update your preferences, as well as opt-in and out of specific features and emails. 🔗 blog.tophhie.cloud/introducing-... 🔗 profile.tophhie.social #pds #atproto #federation #bluesky #tophhiecloud

Introducing: Tophhie Social Profile Preferences

We're providing a way for you to declare your Tophhie Social profile preferences.

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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