John Spurlock johnspurlock-skymethod

How to install a minimal Mastodon server on Amazon EC2

Useful links

Personal Mastodon instance guide (a minimal Mastodon on EC2) https://gist.github.com/AndrewKvalheim/a91c4a4624d341fe2faba28520ed2169

Installing Mastodon (official guide) https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/install/

For a given target post activity pub id url, say: https://example.com/@alice/posts/9b905f9a-f607-4d97-8b6a-e4f212b07561

Prompt for the user's fediverse identity, say: @[email protected]
Issue a webfinger request to find the redirect url:

GET https://bobsdomain.com/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected]

200 OK
content-type: application/jrd+json; charset=utf-8

Unofficial R2 notes

Cost

https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/platform/pricing/

up to 10,000,000 read operations + $0.36 per 1,000,000 operations
  $3.60 free
up to 1,000,000 write operations + $4.50 per 1,000,000 operations

Typescript types for the newly-announced R2 worker bindings for multipart uploads.

// https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/blob/main/src/workerd/api/r2-bucket.h
export interface R2BucketWithMultipart extends R2Bucket {
    createMultipartUpload(key: string, opts?: R2MultipartOptions): Promise<R2MultipartUpload>;
    resumeMultipartUpload(key: string, uploadId: string): Promise<R2MultipartUpload>;
}

export interface R2MultipartOptions {

New one-liner command to download a Cloudflare D1 database to a local sqlite db file.

Prerequisites:

Install the latest Denoflare CLI (newest commit, not release-tagged yet) if not already installed

Install deno if not already installed

Then install Denoflare: deno install -A --name denoflare --force https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skymethod/denoflare/66b741c9242e724adbf030a2be26af4b58432631/cli/cli.ts

Run the new denoflare d1 export-db command

	<rss>
	<channel>
	...
	<link rel="self" href="https://YOURFEED" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" />
	<link rel="hub" href="https://hub.livewire.io/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" />