I set up a family server on Mastodon today. It wasn’t too hard; Digital Ocean has a one-click Mastodon install. I tried messing around with Docker Compose but it wasn’t happening for me. If you’re using the network, please say hello!
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Director of Open Technology at Open Earth Foundation (OEF). Past founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. CTO of Breather, TRU LUV and MTTR. Creator of GNU Social and pump.io. Co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of ActivityStreams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. In Montreal, from San Francisco. Greek, Arab, American, Canadian. Husband, father, cook, gardener. View all posts by Evan Prodromou
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Try my tutorial: https://blog.riemann.cc/digitalisation/2022/02/06/mastodon-setup-with-docker-and-nginx-proxy/