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-The intent here is to create an all-in-one social server build
+Provisions, builds, and configures a full Mastodon server, with all the trimmings.
+
+There's a lot of rote work involved in setting up a Mastodon server, and this simplifies things a lot.
+
+THIS IS NOT YET READY FOR PRODUCTION USE!  But it's getting close!
+
+## What does it do?
+
+It configures...
+* A server in AWS EC2
+* DNS zone data at AWS Route53 as well as nameserver configuration at the registrar
+* SES to deliver outbound mail, setting everything up to verify your domain
+* SSH keys for the instance, and AWS SSM to manage SSH connections without having to open port 22
+* nginx reverse proxy
+* certbot to manage TLS certificates automatically
+* an S3 bucket for media storage
+* Mastodon
+* fediblockhole to auto-block bad servers by default
+* Probably some other stuff I'm forgetting
 
 ## Requirements
 
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 * Python 3.6+ for credentials
 * python3-bs4 (BeautifulSoup 4)
 
-Your AWS account needs to be moved from the SES sandbox into production in the region you're deploying to.  This is
+## Setup
-requested through the AWS console.
+
+You need a working set of AWS credentials to set up the server.  Head to `aws.amazon.com` and click the sign-up
+button.  AWS is a paid service and you will be charged for the resources this sets up.
+
+* `./configure` and answer the questions it asks you
+* `make`
+
+Once SES is configured, you need to manually go to the AWS console and request that your account be moved from the
+sandbox to production, before it will deliver mail.
+
+At present the server it configures will not be open to the public.  A step will be added soon to move your server
+into "production" and open the port up once you're satisfied with it.
+
+## Roadmap
+
+Some missing features:
+
+* postfix inbound to relay main from SES back to the administrator
+* SMTP and IMAP services for users: postfix/dovecot/rspamd/pigeonhole!  Maybe!
+* Support for migrating Mastodon to newer versions, including database upgrades
+* AWS Secrets Manager support for various credentials
+* Phanpy
+* Synapse and Element
+* Backups! (ha!)
+* Vagrant and existing-server support for people not wanting to use AWS
+* ActivityPub relay subscription (if desired)
 
 
+Other work that still needs doing:
+* Converting from docker to podman
+* non-root access for Ansible
+* A more configurable server topology with HA and autoscaling for larger sites
+