aka mastodon.social, wikipedia says, “Mastodon<\/b>\u00a0is a federated\u00a0social<\/b>\u00a0network, with similar features to Twitter, but administrated as a decentralized federation of servers running open source software.” Can we build a “club” using this? Here are my notes which focused on my failed attempts in building an instance. …
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My original interest was to see if by building a server, one could curate communities … it seems not. It’s not how mastodon works.<\/p>\n
<\/a> I installed tootle<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on elementary OS (0.4.1) using the AppCenter package manager. When you launch tootle for the first time, using a text box widget it asks you for the instance you use, and then uses a web browser tab to login to your mastodon account and authorise the application. The web form will expose one of the thee keys which you need to cut and paste into the code text box in the tootle login window. (If you’ve forgotten\u00a0 your password, this stage becomes very difficult. 😣)<\/p>\n I have tried to install in Vbox using the instructions above and it fails making cld3, I don’t have the gem and make skills to fix it and I can’t find a crib sheet.<\/p>\n Or is this<\/a> it? It seems not!<\/p>\n A correspondent writes …<\/p>\n I had to install libprotobuf-dev in addition to protobuf-compiler<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let’s try this<\/p>\n In 2021, I had another look and found these,<\/p>\n aka mastodon.social, wikipedia says, “Mastodon\u00a0is a federated\u00a0social\u00a0network, with similar features to Twitter, but administrated as a decentralized federation of servers running open source software.” Can we build a “club” using this? Here are my notes which focused on my failed attempts in building an instance. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[292,1138,1217,330,791,920,911,1216,1218],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-technology","tag-chat","tag-mastodon","tag-mastopane","tag-microblogging","tag-pump-io","tag-software","tag-technology","tag-tootle","tag-twidere"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mastdon-w650.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI use mastopane<\/em> and twidere<\/em> on android, and found tootle<\/em> for elementary os i.e. ubuntu.<\/p>\nAbout Hosting<\/h3>\n
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