Hiya,
The thought occurred - how hard would it be to set up Mastodon on reclaim cloud? I know there are some posts on the ‘regular’ reclaim asking about Mastodon, but of course, cloud changes everything!
Is anyone giving this a try?
I’ve done a bit of noodling around, and found this GitHub - Wonderfall/docker-mastodon: All-in-one unofficial Mastodon Docker image, if you want that. which might work… (not entirely sure about the ‘not scalable’ proviso though)
ooooooooooooooooooooh (super long “oooh” because it had to be 20 characters to post)
Deserving of a bump today . . .
Yep, Mastodon is on the brain for a lot of people today.
Mastodon does not seem to have an official Docker-based setup but they do have a guide here:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/prerequisites/
For projects that are as complicated to host as this, I tend to recommend people stick to the official documentation as much as possible. They recommend using an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS. It’s a little disappointing to me that their guide hasn’t been updated for a newer version of Ubuntu (although its possible it would still work fine).
When making a new environment in Reclaim Cloud I would choose the VPS option, then Ubuntu 18.04:
From there you would add a Public IP, and follow their instructions.
For those interested in doing it for edtech/classroom settings, it might be worth looking at the Hometown fork of Mastodon: Local only posting · hometown-fork/hometown Wiki · GitHub
The link is to a special feature that most Mastodon instances don’t have: local only posting which would allow students a level of privacy and separation from the rest of the federated timeline if they choose.
