Mastodon - microblogging

[girish]

Thanks @sumacinitiative . Have this mostly working now - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/mastodon-app . Will get this published next week

[yusf]

@girish With the introduction of apps with federation features, this calls for a way to solve federated account addresses to associate with to the root domain regardless of app path, on a system level.

[murgero]

@yusf Or maybe make the domain more easily configurable for popular apps like Mastodon (not in the store) as some admins will want to use the sub domain regardless.

[fbartels]

It seems to achieve this one just needs to proxy a "well-known" document from the root domain to where mastodon is actually running:

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Serving_a_different_domain.md

[legacy]

Need something like this.
It would be better if it were lighter.

[murgero]

@legacy If you need a more light weight alt - NExtcloud has support for ActivityPub (enable in admin -> Apps) and GNUSocial's protocol as well.

[yusf]

@legacy Or Pleroma.

[girish]

I have published this app to unstable. It supports both "open registration" as well as "only for cloudron users" login modes.

[will]

Heads up, there seems to be an issues logging in with users with a "." in the username, such as "user.admin"
It gives an HTTP ERROR 422.
When trying to make that user admin, the terminal responds: No user with such username

[girish]

@will Seems similar to https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/11277 .

From what I can tell ".", "_" and "-" are allowed as per https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/f86ee4b59f25727d248609e0afe277a4f69f6be7/app/models/account.rb#L52 . So maybe this is a LDAP adapter bug that we need to report upstream.

[girish]

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/6830 is the exact issue!

[hiyukoim]

Thank you for working hard on Mastodon for Cloudron!
I wonder if we can set different domains for LOCAL_DOMAIN from WEB_DOMAIN.

LOCAL_DOMAIN is a part of mastodon username such as user@example.com.
WEB_DOMAIN is for mastodon instance itself https://mastodon.example.com.

It would be super cool if we can make it like that on Mastodon app on Cloudron too.

[yusf]

@hiyukoim It's not possible within Cloudron at this point. Check out my suggestion, Serve federated apps from root domain.

[girish]

@yusf @hiyukoim Please see https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2038/serve-federated-apps-from-root-domain/12 . I guess it's possible to support LOCAL_DOMAIN/WEB_DOMAIN but from whta I can tell if you do this, then user@example.com can only be used in mastodon and no other app. You can't use any other ActivityPub supported apps in parallel. Please correct me if I am wrong in the other thread.