John WiggNov 7, 2022
Spent the evening attempting to set up my own Mastodon instance. Did not go well.
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@CaptainProton42 I set up a pleroma instance yesterday, which is supposed to be similar but I hear it’s actually quite a bit easier/fewer steps. I still had some trouble but did get it running.

Maybe worth a shot? It’s totally compatible with mastodon and mastodon clients.

Nov 7, 2022 at 11:28pmWeb
Show threadJohn WiggNov 7, 2022

@riverforgegames Interesting! I tried to install the Mastodon docker image on my VPS but there sadly isn't a lot of documentation on the process (and I really don't know a lot about that kind of stuff) so I just got stuck.

So anything that is a little easier/better documented might do the trick 😅

Show threadRiver Forge GamesNov 7, 2022

@CaptainProton42 I followed this guide for pleroma… in theory more steps than loading a docker image, but I was able to do it.

The one part that tripped me up was my server had an OS firewall preventing certification and I just wasn’t aware of it, so something to look out for would be multiple firewalls (for instance, one from the host and one from the os)

https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/otp_en/

Installing on Linux using OTP releases - Pleroma Documentation

Show threadJohn WiggNov 7, 2022
@riverforgegames Hm... I think I'd prefer having everything in docker just because that's the way my VPS is currently set up. But thanks for the pointers anyways! I shall try again.