ShadowJonathan

Mastodon Docker Setup

Setting up

Clone Mastodon's repository.

# Clone Mastodon to ~/mastodon directory
git clone https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
# Change directory to ~/mastodon
cd ~/mastodon

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map $request_uri $ap_resource_user {
  ~^/@(\w+)$                    $1;
  ~^/@(\w+)/\d+$                $1;
  ~^/users/(\w+)$               $1;
  ~^/users/(\w+)/\w+$           $1;
  ~^/users/(\w+)/statuses/\d+$  $1;

  default         "";
}

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# Add this to the end of your .*rc file (dependent on your shell)

echo "\033[31m"
cat ~/keygen_church.ascii.txt
echo "\033[0m"
echo "   PRAISE THE CODE"
echo

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:root {
  --visibility-global: #1976d2;
  --visibility-unlisted: #388e3c;
  --visibility-follower: #ffa000;
  --visibility-private: #d32f2f;
}

.hicolor-privacy-icons .compose-form:has(.compose-form__dropdowns .dropdown-button .icon-globe) button[type=submit],
.hicolor-privacy-icons .secondary-post-button:has(svg path[d^="M480-80q-83"]) {
    background-color: var(--visibility-global);

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# Place this after your default configuration

frontend fedi_fe
	mode http

  # this is the address that haproxy will listen on,
  # when doing this local loopback, its recommended to set to localhost (127.0.0.1)
	bind 127.0.0.1:28080

	default_backend fedi_fe

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from mastodon import Mastodon

# Create an application, and fill in these parameters with that.
# You should at least have the following permissions;
#  - read
#  - admin:read
#  - admin:read:accounts
#  - admin:write
#  - admin:write:accounts
mastodon = Mastodon(

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A rant I posted in the Jupiter Broadcasting Unplugged feedback room

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Re 449: about IPFS, I do have some comments/feedback, and some warnings;

IPFS in general was supposed to be a multi-language Thing, however, as of yet, only a golang and a JS version exists. Begin 2020 I was looking to change that, wanting to see python added to the mix (because python is imo a much better language to experiment on), so I started poking at py-libp2p, and through a combination of discussion, talks, and just seeing who or where the maintainers were contributing things, I discovered that IPFS was ran on money, and not the good kind of money.

Py-libp2p (libp2p being a library that was supposed to unify all peer to peer communication in a collaborative way, but is now just a repo merge away from codebase isolation irrelevance) was maintained by ethereum developers, who saw it as a fancy new library to piggyback another client onto, but couldn’t care less for the IPFS usecase itself. That’s kinda fine… if they did not dom

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Use the following to install or update conduit_migrate;

cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/shadowjonathan/conduit_toolbox conduit_migrate

This'll place it in ~/.cargo/bin, make sure you have this on your $PATH, see rustup documentation for more info.

You can choose a origin database format and a destination database format, the current ones are;

• heed
• sqlite

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Use the following to install or update conduit_migrate;

cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/shadowjonathan/conduit_toolbox conduit_migrate

This'll place it in ~/.cargo/bin, make sure you have this on your $PATH, see rustup documentation for more info.

You can choose a origin database format and a destination database format, the current ones are;

• heed
• sqlite

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# /etc/systemd/system/fix-vlc.service
[Unit]
Description=Fix VLC
After=suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target suspend-then-hibernate.target sleep.target

[Service]
User=root
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/killall vlc
TimeoutSec=10