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This seems like a good juncture to point out that GNU Social, OStatus, and the Fediverse still exist. It still has some believers. Someone wrote a new implemen

This seems like a good juncture to point out that GNU Social, OStatus, and the Fediverse still exist. It still has some believers. Someone wrote a new implementation in Ruby called Mastodon recently, which has a nice interface.

unimpressive 10y ago
Do you know of a good tutorial on how to quickly get set up on one of these? I would gladly join but have never really been able to figure out how. (I'm looking to self host.)
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
  I would assume it's just a case of installing your chosen software package on a web server. I don't know how easy that is. The more mature packages are probably better-documented in this regard.
  - muppetman 10y ago
    It took me about 15 minutes to install GNU Social just now (I already had a webserver with php and mysql)
  - mxuribe 10y ago
    I haven't tried mastodon, but gnu social is pretty easy. There aren't enough tutorials on installing it, but I've had luck with the following (which I'm quoting myself from having posted them to previous comments): * https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/ https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/ * https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-social-networking-installing-gnu-social--cms-22456 https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-s...
- riffic 10y ago
  For GNU Social, set up a ServerPilot stack on Ubuntu (it's a PHP/MySQL app and the ServerPilot stack works a-okay for this). For Mastodon, deploy their Docker image?
- mxuribe 10y ago
  The following are a little dated now, but still relevant: * https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/ https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/ * https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-social-networking-installing-gnu-social--cms-22456 https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-s...
akkartik 10y ago
I still think back periodically to https://github.com/buckket/twtxt https://github.com/buckket/twtxt. Fascinating project.

unimpressive 10y ago

Do you know of a good tutorial on how to quickly get set up on one of these? I would gladly join but have never really been able to figure out how. (I'm looking to self host.)

TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
I would assume it's just a case of installing your chosen software package on a web server. I don't know how easy that is. The more mature packages are probably better-documented in this regard.
- muppetman 10y ago
  It took me about 15 minutes to install GNU Social just now (I already had a webserver with php and mysql)
- mxuribe 10y ago
  I haven't tried mastodon, but gnu social is pretty easy. There aren't enough tutorials on installing it, but I've had luck with the following (which I'm quoting myself from having posted them to previous comments): * https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/ https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/ * https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-social-networking-installing-gnu-social--cms-22456 https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-s...
riffic 10y ago
For GNU Social, set up a ServerPilot stack on Ubuntu (it's a PHP/MySQL app and the ServerPilot stack works a-okay for this). For Mastodon, deploy their Docker image?
mxuribe 10y ago
The following are a little dated now, but still relevant: * https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/ https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/ * https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-social-networking-installing-gnu-social--cms-22456 https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-s...

akkartik 10y ago

I still think back periodically to https://github.com/buckket/twtxt https://github.com/buckket/twtxt. Fascinating project.