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Yeah back when Elon bought the place and everyone was talking about moving to Mastodon I was dismissive. Wasn't expecting Twitter to start switching off system

by corobo 4y ago

Yeah back when Elon bought the place and everyone was talking about moving to Mastodon I was dismissive. Wasn't expecting Twitter to start switching off systems like a ship in Star Trek trying to conserve energy for life support.. Looking forward to Tapbots new client. Don't really care what's powering the backend as it turns out, it just needs to stay working. Nice work Mastodon and the rest of the federation, I'll be looking into server options over the weekend. Gotta have the vanity domain.

rezonant 4y ago
Welcome! If you are thinking of running it in Kubernetes, I have updated some old charts to work better with modern Kubernetes and Mastodon, you can find them here: https://github.com/rezonant/mastodon-chart https://github.com/rezonant/mastodon-chart
Klonoar 4y ago
As an FYI you can have the "vanity domain" if you just use the webfinger protocol with your own custom domain. Don't necessarily need to self-host it.
- eddiegroves 4y ago
  Does this method let you move instances “under the hood”?
  - spindle 4y ago
    yes
- jacobbudin 4y ago
  Are you sure? I'm a Mastodon newbie, but the docs suggest neither the "local domain" nor the "web domain" can be changed once set: > As with LOCAL_DOMAIN, WEB_DOMAIN cannot be safely changed once set, as this will confuse remote servers that knew of your previous settings and may break communication with them or make it unreliable. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#local_domain https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#local_domain They also recommend a "301 Moved Permanently" implementation.
- dustyharddrive 4y ago
  Following an account discovered via WebFinger on your domain doesn’t provide account portability (https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/using-your-own-domain-as-a-mastodon-handle/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/using-your-own-domain-as-a-...). You can always host a lightweight ActivityPub server like honk (https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk).
- corobo 4y ago
  Nice one for pointing this out, thank you

by corobo 4y ago

rezonant 4y ago

Welcome! If you are thinking of running it in Kubernetes, I have updated some old charts to work better with modern Kubernetes and Mastodon, you can find them here: https://github.com/rezonant/mastodon-chart https://github.com/rezonant/mastodon-chart

Klonoar 4y ago

As an FYI you can have the "vanity domain" if you just use the webfinger protocol with your own custom domain. Don't necessarily need to self-host it.

eddiegroves 4y ago
Does this method let you move instances “under the hood”?
- spindle 4y ago
  yes
jacobbudin 4y ago
Are you sure? I'm a Mastodon newbie, but the docs suggest neither the "local domain" nor the "web domain" can be changed once set: > As with LOCAL_DOMAIN, WEB_DOMAIN cannot be safely changed once set, as this will confuse remote servers that knew of your previous settings and may break communication with them or make it unreliable. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#local_domain https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#local_domain They also recommend a "301 Moved Permanently" implementation.
dustyharddrive 4y ago
Following an account discovered via WebFinger on your domain doesn’t provide account portability (https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/using-your-own-domain-as-a-mastodon-handle/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/using-your-own-domain-as-a-...). You can always host a lightweight ActivityPub server like honk (https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk).
corobo 4y ago
Nice one for pointing this out, thank you