Mastadon

Self hosted decentralize open source social media alternative.

Install Requirements

$ sudo su
$ apt install -y curl wget gnupg apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates 
$ curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | apt-key add -
$ curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo -E bash - 
$ wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/postgresql.asc https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/postgresql.asc] http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/postgresql.list 
$ apt update && apt install -y imagemagick ffmpeg libpq-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev file git-core g++ libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler pkg-config nodejs gcc autoconf bison build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm-dev nginx redis-server redis-tools postgresql postgresql-contrib certbot python3-certbot-nginx libidn11-dev libicu-dev libjemalloc-dev 
$ npm install -g npm@latest
$ npm install -g yarn
$ corepack enable 
$ yarn set version stable

Installing Ruby

$ adduser --disabled-login mastodon
$ su - mastodon
$ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
$ cd ~/.rbenv && src/configure && make -C src
$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
$ exec bash
$ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
$ RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--with-jemalloc rbenv install 3.0.3
$ rbenv global 3.0.3
$ gem install bundler --no-document
$ exit

PostGresSQL

# Optional hardware config tuning: https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/#/  - Generates config /etc/postgresql/14/main/postgresql.conf . 
$ sudo -u postgres psql
$ CREATE USER mastodon CREATEDB;
$ \q

Mastadon Setup

$ su - mastodon
$ git clone https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon.git live && cd live
$ git checkout $(git tag -l | grep -v 'rc[0-9]*$' | sort -V | tail -n 1)
$ bundle config deployment 'true'
$ bundle config without 'development test'
$ bundle install -j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
$ yarn install --pure-lockfile
# Need to set a domain name , unclear if 127.0.0.1 works? / nginx produces error if set to 127.0.0.1
# Looks like there is a lot of depency issues or outdated errors. 
$ RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake mastodon:setup
# config stored .env.production
# Example

mastodon@decyphertek:~/live$ RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake mastodon:setup
Your instance is identified by its domain name. Changing it afterward will break things.
Domain name: 127.0.0.1

Single user mode disables registrations and redirects the landing page to your public profile.
Do you want to enable single user mode? No

Are you using Docker to run Mastodon? no

PostgreSQL host: /var/run/postgresql
PostgreSQL port: 5432
Name of PostgreSQL database: mastodon_production
Name of PostgreSQL user: mastodon
Password of PostgreSQL user: 
Database configuration works! 🎆

Redis host: localhost
Redis port: 6379
Redis password: 
Redis configuration works! 🎆

Do you want to store uploaded files on the cloud? No

Do you want to send e-mails from localhost? yes
E-mail address to send e-mails "from": Mastodon <notifications@127.0.0.1>
Send a test e-mail with this configuration right now? Yes
Send test e-mail to: adminotaur@decyphertek.io

$ exit

nginx Setup

$ cp /home/mastodon/live/dist/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/mastodon
$ ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mastodon /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mastodon
# Update domain name
$ vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/mastodon
$ systemctl daemon-reload 
$ systemctl restart nginx

Optional: Certbot SSL

$ certbot --nginx -d example.com

Systemd

$ cp /home/mastodon/live/dist/mastodon-*.service /etc/systemd/system/
$ systemctl daemon-reload
$ systemctl enable --now mastodon-web mastodon-sidekiq mastodon-streaming

References

https://joinmastodon.org/ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/install/