Taylor Jadin

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@btopro Thanks for being a part of it! We'll have a high-quality version posted this month (the stream went hay-wire the day of, so we had to just point the camera at the projector).

Finally got a chance to watch the #ReclaimOpen documentary they made during the event. youtube.com/watch?v=OB1oKf… Great commentary from many different voices and perspectives on when they started with the web and where they see it going

"I didn't realize how many fences we were burning down around the institution" -- talking about tech building outside of current structures was setting fire to the boundaries and policies elsewhere (unintentionally). / Almost a tangential disruption #reclaimopen

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to join @A_L_T @MarenDeepwell @KerryPinny and @ReclaimHosting EdTech @jimgroom @TaylorJadin's #Mastodon server and have fun! Mission Mastodon: Mission Briefing on Thursday 19 January 2023 at 16:00 GMT alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/…

@KerryPinny @Emmadw @MarenDeepwell @sebschmoller You can set up a redirect when you leave a server for good (so folks that follow you automatically follow you in the new place) but Mastodon currently does not have any way to move your actual old posts between servers.

Mastodon is cool and you should consider checking it out. Go and pick a server on joinmastodon.org and check it out if you are interested. You can pick any server that resonates with you, and follow folks that are on other servers too.

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@timmmmyboy @jimgroom Oh and also should probably do a `git checkout v3.5.3` after the clone, to avoid running a bleeding edge version.

@timmmmyboy @jimgroom I’m making some notes right now to try it out another time, but I think this guide at step 5 will be helpful: howtoforge.com/how-to-install…

Thanks to @TaylorJadin we got a Mastodon up and running, and Jesus H. Christ was it brutal. Definitely not a one-click installer on horizon unless there's a stable, solid Docker image floating around. More tomorrow, but what cost freedom? Sysadmin sanity...that's the cost-dammit!

@timmmmyboy @jimgroom Thanks! I’m still struggling with nginx’s config. Need to get more comfortable there.

@timmmmyboy I’ll say reading this and poking around mastodon more last night, I do really appreciate the actual experience of using Mastodon. It reminds me of when 3rd party twitter clients were first class citizens, a bit.

@timmmmyboy @jimgroom We should be able to clone the whole repo then use the docker-compose.yml from there. Cloning the whole repo will be necessary as the images are built from there, not downloaded from dockerhub.

@timmmmyboy @jimgroom Yep, thats exactly what I want to do next. It looks like there is no nginx or lets encrypt stuff happening there, which is honestly perfect as I figure we can change the web container to use port 80 and use a load balancer to handle reverse proxy and let’s encrypt.

@Edward_Beck @jimgroom We didn’t have luck with it, but it likely would require more experimentation. Sometimes github repos have docker-compose files for development purposes only, but in this case I do think it is AN intended way to host it, even if its poorly documented. More investigation needed.

@jimgroom @TaylorJadin There’s a docker-compose file in the main GitHub repository? No good? github.com/mastodon/masto…

@DavidDLaCroix @jimgroom but no for a personal instance its exactly as complex. The offical install procedure is the same.

@DavidDLaCroix @jimgroom They do have that in their cli setup now (see 39:52): video.jadin.me/w/21X8ZYdDaU8v…

@timmmmyboy @jimgroom How to pick up and move between servers is exactly my worry too.

@derekbruff @jimgroom @ReclaimHosting I’d stick to their official documentation, particularly to make sure you can do smooth upgrades and the like down the road: docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/prerequi… You’d start by deploying a Ubuntu 20.04 VPS, on reclaim.cloud or whatever cloud you like