FYI: We have a few blockers on to opening up DEFCON.social:

1. A different mail server so the main defcon.org doesn't get potentially marked as a spam source

2. A media server that can speak S3 Block Storage to Mastodon. This is critical for scaling.

3. More Moderators. We are building out our moderator plan and will be seeking support soon.

Once we have all three done we will open, until then we will control growth with invite links.

#mastoadmin

@thedarktangent I think you can use minio (https://min.io) for that, depending on how you're hosting.
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@manchmod You we’re peeking! Yes that’s what we are working to test first, it seems the consensus choice. Have you used it?
@thedarktangent yeah i use it in my personal infra. I haven't scaled it in a prod env though.