Re: MAstodon setup disaster

On 2025-03-17, The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:

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Has anyone had success setting
a fresh new install of Mastodon?

our collectie "hispagatos" has been running an instance of mastodon and
matrix chat since they were in alpha stage, so I have a ton of
experience, I can not bouch for packages since we been upgrading since
nobody know much about it, we use git, our setup is
a member of our colletive runs some servers on his basement, one of this
server is for us to use and runs Arch GNU/Linux is a roling release so
this helps a lot specially for long term, no need to do mayor
upgrades(debian/ubuntu) and is faster to get security patching from
upstream than most other distros.
We follow the documentation for a source/git install that basically is
you create  user lets say mastodon
you su - to it and follow the instruction this all go around installing
irb for ruby env and then the rest, I advice to use this setup if you
want long term easy of mind :)

I am at working now but just duckduckgo something like "mastodon doc
source install" and follow the instructions make sure your irb install
is well setup for the user "mastodon" so mastodon is not using system
libraries (I can see already issues with debian since is so slow to
update)

feel free to contact me on matrix/mastodon/fediverse you will find my info on
my signature

Hope this helps
Happy Hacking
ReK2