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 It is used on [Chinwag Social](https://social.chinwag.org) to provide XMPP messaging functionality to every account. 
 
 ## Setup
-Edit the `auth-mastodon.py` file and add database connection credentials at the top. Moving this to a config file is next on the TODO list.
+Edit the `auth-mastodon.py` file and add database connection credentials at the top. Moving this to a config file is next on the TODO list, as this makes updates an awful process. Sorry.
 
 I recommend not using your main Mastodon database user account for this, and instead granting SELECT privileges on the Mastodon *accounts* and *users* tables to your ejabberd user instead.