Re: MAstodon setup disaster

On 2025-03-19, Eli the Bearded wrote:

In comp.os.linux.misc, The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:

All right I have attempt to set up Mastodon in
 
Debian 12 (snap included)
Ubuntu 24 (snap included)
 
FreeBSD based  on  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/net-im/mastodon

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Mastodon seems a bear to run. Have you considered the lightweight snac2?
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https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
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I'm paying masto.host for an instance, but would be tempted to switch to
snac2 if it suppported account migrations (which, alas, it does not:
"simple, minimalistic" implementations are not full featured).

It looks like not even Mastodon fully supports migrations:
https://erinkissane.com/notes-from-a-mastodon-migration

I find it especially concerning that using the migration feature breaks
lists...

While I still have to decide how to do it, I'm changing to a different
instance, and so far it looks like it might be better to keep both
accounts active without migrating.

But Mastodon has more urgent issues, like making the official web UI
more usable instead of trying to clone TSNFKAT :-P

I might switch my bot account over to a snac2 instance, as I don't care
much about history there. Currently I'm using an even lighter weight
activitypub framework, activity-bot. My fork:
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https://codeberg.org/elithebearded/activity-bot
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Elijah
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if you are installing via snap you might not like complex installs

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