On Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:56:50 CET A. F. Cano wrote: > With everything that is happening with twitter these days, I looked at > Mastodon in some detail. Per: > > https://www.linuxbabe.com/debian/install-mastodon-debian-server > > it is not trivial to set up, but most importantly it requires a > domain (*.freedombox.rocks, that I already have established), > a server (the FreedomBox) and an email server. The latter is the > show-stopper.
There is a bigger showstopper: getting mastodon packaged for Debian. There is a Request For Packaging bug here: https://bugs.debian.org/859741 The (relatively) low bug number may give a hint: opened 2017-04-06 In the upstream issue list there's also a request for a Debian packaged https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/3576, opened 2017-06-05. The big problem is that it is a BEAST to package, but that is a requirement for inclusion in Mastodon. There seems to be possible alternative clients for the Fediverse though and it was mentioned on #debian-til yesterday. For one of them, a RFP bug was filed: https://bugs.debian.org/1023749. See also https://bugs.debian.org/859741#49 for links to alternatives. BTW, the page you linked to, instructs users to do some VERY unsafe stuff and just download a whole bunch of packages from ruby and nodejs 'repos'. What could possibly go wrong with commands like these: curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo bash - echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/ sources.list.d/yarn.list curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add - (that was a rhetorical question)
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