Mastodawn

Stéphan Kochen Nov 13, 2022

@raito Tbh, I sometimes wonder about the purpose of profiles. I believe it was said somewhere that 'hardened' is an example, not something that should be directly used. Maybe that should apply to minimal as well? It's small enough any way.

That obviously doesn't apply to every profile, but I think making that distinction (example of not) is perhaps easier than maintaining more profiles.

Stéphan Kochen Nov 13, 2022

Scott Small 🇨🇦Nov 12, 2022

I've published Macstodon, my silly little Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS to GitHub: https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

I'm not providing any support or planning any serious development or maintenance of this, it's just a fun little hack project. Please fork and extend :)

Some Gotchas:
- You need MacPython 1.5.2 installed to run it, because my Mac crashes when I try to compile it into a standalone app.
- You need some kind of SSL stripping proxy running on another machine, I recommend WebOne: https://github.com/atauenis/webone
- It only posts plain text toots and doesn't have any other features
- There's no error handling. Expect crashes!

GitHub - smallsco/macstodon: A basic Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS

A basic Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS. Contribute to smallsco/macstodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Stéphan Kochen Nov 13, 2022

Lunania (Luna)Nov 12, 2022

Oh... Oh God! Whoever did this.... The dedication!! The... The downtime!!! O_o

Stéphan Kochen Nov 12, 2022

Armin Ronacher Nov 12, 2022

Considering making the move to hachyderm. Before I do, any other servers I should consider?

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Stéphan Kochen Nov 12, 2022

@carsten But thanks for the pointer! I hadn't looked at Friendica before, and PHP is a bit more familiar.

Looks like NixOS doesn't package it yet. An opportunity, perhaps! 🙃

Stéphan Kochen Nov 12, 2022

@carsten I'm surprised the default Mastodon installation is so clunky. They have a Docker setup, so why don't they focus on that in the docs?

By comparison, deploying Mastodon on #NixOS was all of putting this in a file and applying the configuration.

Stéphan Kochen Nov 12, 2022

moved to [email protected] ✨Nov 12, 2022

it’s already been said by other people more eloquent than myself but, while i do believe there’s merit in choosing a mastodon instance based on shared interests, it’s far more important to choose a mastodon instance based on shared *values*

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Stéphan Kochen Nov 12, 2022

I take it back. Hosting a Mastodon instance does not look like much fun, haha. 😅

Spun up an instance at the delightfully fun domain slurfdier.nl, but the whole stack is too alien, and I'm not sure I have the patience to learn.

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Stéphan Kochen Nov 12, 2022

@casuallynoted I guess you're doing a port forward? Maybe your router has an option 'NAT reflection'?

Stéphan Kochen Nov 12, 2022

@Pol I think having the package variants is intended, but maybe something can be done to have Hydra build and cache the variants. Tricky thing is that it's an overlay only available via a NixOS module.

I'm not sure if NixOS test builds are cached? Maybe it's possible to simply add the option to certain tests. In my case, I was installing Mastodon, which has a test we could add it to.