diff --git a/service/gotosocial/container/config/config.yaml.template b/service/gotosocial/container/config/config.yaml.template
index 92aad22..f4e403b 100644
--- a/service/gotosocial/container/config/config.yaml.template
+++ b/service/gotosocial/container/config/config.yaml.template
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 ##### GENERAL CONFIG ######
 ###########################
 
-# The user that will be shown instead of the landing page. if no user is set, the landing page will be shown.
-landing-page-user: "${GOTOSOCIAL_DEFAULT_USERNAME}"
-
 # Hostname that this server will be reachable at. Defaults to localhost for local testing,
 # but you should *definitely* change this when running for real, or your server won't work at all.
 # DO NOT change this after your server has already run once, or you will break things!
diff --git a/service/gotosocial/container/run-gotosocial b/service/gotosocial/container/run-gotosocial
index 5b9be33..d39a315 100755
--- a/service/gotosocial/container/run-gotosocial
+++ b/service/gotosocial/container/run-gotosocial
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ if ! test -f /var/lib/gotosocial/gotosocial.db; then
         gosu gotosocial /bin/gotosocial --config-path /etc/gotosocial/config.yaml admin account create \
                                         --username "$GOTOSOCIAL_DEFAULT_USERNAME" --password "$password" \
                                         --email "${GOTOSOCIAL_DEFAULT_USERNAME}@${GOTOSOCIAL_ACCOUNT_DOMAIN}"
-        gosu gotosocial /bin/gotosocial --config-path /etc/gotosocial/config.yaml admin account confirm \
-                                        --username "$GOTOSOCIAL_DEFAULT_USERNAME"
         gosu gotosocial /bin/gotosocial --config-path /etc/gotosocial/config.yaml admin account promote \
                                         --username "$GOTOSOCIAL_DEFAULT_USERNAME"
         echo "Created an administrator user with username '$GOTOSOCIAL_DEFAULT_USERNAME' and password '$password'."