InstallingMastodon &mdash; @dirkhaun XXL https://blog.tinycities.net/dirkhaun/tag:InstallingMastodon When 500 characters are not enough ... Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:20:15 +0000 Moving to Mastodon https://blog.tinycities.net/dirkhaun/moving-to-mastodon <![CDATA[So when it became obvious that #Twitter was going down the drain, I started looking for alternatives and quickly settled on #Mastodon. After a brief stint as @dirkhaun@troet.cafe I began to wonder how easy (or not) it would be to run my own instance. !--more-- It has been a while since I administered a webserver. That was back in the Apache 1.3 days, long before Docker and all this new-fangled stuff (which I still don’t understand to this day) came along. So I got myself the smallest vServer I could find and gave the instructions a try. What can I say - it worked (almost) without a flaw. Now, those instructions are not for the faint of heart. But if you know where to look (and what to do) when, at the end of the day, nginx reports a permission issue trying to serve a CSS file, then you can do it. Setting up a Mastodon instance is one thing. Running an instance is another, which we’ll explore in another post … #MastodonAdventures #InstallingMastodon]]> So when it became obvious that #Twitter was going down the drain, I started looking for alternatives and quickly settled on #Mastodon. After a brief stint as @dirkhaun@troet.cafe I began to wonder how easy (or not) it would be to run my own instance.

It has been a while since I administered a webserver. That was back in the Apache 1.3 days, long before Docker and all this new-fangled stuff (which I still don’t understand to this day) came along. So I got myself the smallest vServer I could find and gave the instructions a try. What can I say – it worked (almost) without a flaw.

Now, those instructions are not for the faint of heart. But if you know where to look (and what to do) when, at the end of the day, nginx reports a permission issue trying to serve a CSS file, then you can do it.

Setting up a Mastodon instance is one thing. Running an instance is another, which we’ll explore in another post …

#MastodonAdventures #InstallingMastodon

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