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A simple way to understand federation: with one user account you can participate in multiple servers, not needing to sign up on them separately. That's literally it.
The Fediverse is inherently difficult to understand and use. Their documentation, sadly, is written as a sales pitch for the federation piece of it, but doesn’t make it simple to understand. This summary is better, but parts of the explanation still don’t make sense when trying to access content. I couldn’t figure out how to see Mastodon toots from other servers, as an example.
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Improving Mastodon developer documentation
My next task is triaging and labelling issues and pull requests in the documentation repo on GitHub, with an aim to bring in as many of those existing contributions as we can. I am particularly focused on the API, and I am not currently so familiar with other topics (Mastodon server installation, administration, etc), so I'll be relying on additional help! I am aware that some of the issues and PRs have been waiting for a while, but I'll do what I can to get things improved here.
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possibly already asked, is it possible to use the same domain for mastodon, email, and a website?
that said, you can achieve what you're asking but it's tricky: https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/blob/archive/Running-Mastodon/Serving_a_different_domain.md
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I wish to create a server but I have questions (TOS, other options, etc.)
I recommend you go through their documentation. It's very well written. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
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Should I create a new instance for the NBA?
I honestly begin going to the Mastodon docs and reading. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
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AMA with Eugen Rochko, Founder and lead developer of Mastodon, a decentralized, open-source social media platform based on open web protocols. Ask your questions here!
https://github.com/mastodon/documentation documentations are here. I guess you can upload your documentation in the manner in the style as seen there. Although the documentation that you want is more related to code.
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Twitter will remove accounts created solely to promote other social platforms
Anyhow, if you want to really learn what it is about, their docs are actually good at explaining that https://docs.joinmastodon.org/, but it is definitely too much for normal people.
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Integrating Mastodon with Astro
Before I dive in too far, let's talk about microblogging and federation as Mastodon describes it. For microblogging, the Mastodon docs say:
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Almost there - nginx doesn't have permission to the mastodon dynamic website?
The only other issue I hit was getting certbot to work. I found the answer to that little problem via an update in this GitHub issue (namely: disable the site altogether, run certbot in standalone mode, and then enable the site and update the certs section). I need to push a PR for this as well, but wording it will be a pain.
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One of the greatest user interface disasters in history
Mastodon is a microblogging service, so not meant for large bodies of text. This is why the text entry box is small, the columns are somewhat narrow (especially in deck mode) etc.
Platforms like https://writefreely.org/ , which are designed to be for blogging and long-form writing, are the place to write this. Write Freely federates so one can follow accounts and interact with posts via Mastodon etc.
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From Jason: my custom digital garden in 11ty
Write Freely, open source writing space
- Simple WYSIWYG html editor? Open source or cheap.
- [Vell Harlan and the Doomsday Dorms] - Book 1 is now on Amazon!
- If anyone’s interested in moving off Reddit, a possible alternative.
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What self hosted app do you wish existed?
Docs - https://writefreely.org/
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Hi. I created a copy on Lemmy just in case Reddit goes down the drain. If any of the current mods wants mod access there, just let me know. If you think this is a horrible idea, also let me know and I'll remove it.
It's all about federation, in these federated networks all these servers talk to eachother and exchange messages about stuff going on on the servers. So it's easy to set up a hidden service for the webui of one of them, but it's sometimes quite obscure to try and set up the federation for one of them. It depends on what settings they honor and what other types of encryption and authentication they require and stuff. But, if you put some effort in ahead of time, you can make it really simple: I don't know how to do it in rust(lemmy is written in rust), but here's a neat example of how to do it in Go: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/710 which requires no complicated configuration.
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Which platform for occasional blog posts?
An alternative to Plume is WriteFreely, which is a pretty clean & simple experience. Just don't expect to much regarding customization.
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It’s 2023. Start using JavaScript Map and Set
I also wish write.as were more popular. It's like old Medium, but less popular but with a more reader-friendly business model and self-host-able (AGPL v3)
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ActivityPub server that can run on Docker with external db?
And since you've mentioned you want to write a blog, take a look at WriteFreely: https://writefreely.org/
What are some alternatives?
jekyll-webfinger - Webfinger endpoint generator for Jekyll.
Plume - Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub (now on https://git.joinplu.me/ — this is just a mirror)
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
fritter - A peer-to-peer social feed app. (proof of concept)
hugo-importer - CLI tool for migrating Hugo content to Write.as/WriteFreely
instances - Mastodon instances list
Joomla! - Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
GuideToMastodon - An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon
Grav - Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
mastodon - A glitchy but lovable microblogging server
Publify - A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails.