Open veganstraightedge opened 4 years ago
I run a closed instance for myself, and it's pretty simple if it isn't an open instance.
some questions to answer would be:
@astronaut-wannabe Is Mastodon a Rails app?
Yes.
@veganstraightedge, like @krainboltgreene said, yes mastodon is a rails app
@veganstraightedge are we good with the actual account on todon.eu or we still want to create our own instance?
Just like #1822 but for Mastodon (Twitter alternative)
Why
Using Mastodon gives us a bit of resilience against a possible future where we get kick banned from Twitter.
Running our own server gives more control and less dependence on someone keeping their server running forever.
Server
Ideally, this would be run on Heroku, but be portable to some other server if we need to move it in the future.
Subdomain
Does it have to run at a subdomain?
I'm not sure what a good subdomain is. Though, I tend to want to stay away from vendor/brand names. For reasons.
Maybe
updates.crimethinc.com
or similar.Apex domain
I think it'd be preferable if it could be an apex domain thing.
crimethinc@crimethinc.com
or something as the CrimethInc. account + CrimethInc. server.Other accounts
Probably not open to anyone to sign up. But maybe we'd want separate accounts for all of the languages.
es@crimethinc.com
de@crimethinc.com
etcSome prior art
https://ashfurrow.com/blog/running-mastodon-on-heroku https://elements.heroku.com/buttons/ineffyble/mastodon