Mastodon migration

[DidierMalenfant]

First post here. I'm about to do exactly this. I've setup a test mastodon app to play with it and simulate the steps of the migration. There are a few things that I can't do (I'm a developer but not a great web expert).

Migration requires stopping the mastodon server. On the Cloudron app I can't seem to use systemctl stop 'mastodon-*.service' as is says the server wasn't launched with systemd.

There are also a few tootctl commands I need to perform. Currently when I try to do even a simple /app/code/bin/tootctl --version I get the following warning:

/root is not writable.
Bundler will use `/tmp/bundler20250615-xxxx-xxxxxxxx' as your home directory temporarily.

Is this something I should worry about?

Thank for the help in advance. I can report my progress on here when I start doing the actual migration probably next week.

[sixguns]

Watching this, I set up a test Mastodon using Cloudron, works great compared to online tutorials I tried, but I plan to switch servers soon.

Now if only Cloudron would add other federation options yunohost has

[james]

@DidierMalenfant said in Mastodon migration:

Is this something I should worry about?

No. This is working as intended.
If you read the following doc section https://docs.cloudron.io/security/#app-isolation-and-sandboxing

Apps run with a read-only rootfs preventing attacks where the application code can be tampered with.

For this to work, some paths like /tmp and /run are read-write and can be used by the app but will not included in the backup.

[joseph]

@sixguns said in Mastodon migration:

Now if only Cloudron would add other federation options yunohost has

Am curious what you mean by this. Isn't federation a feature of mastodon? Or do you mean yunohost can toot somehow into fediverse from their UI?

[sixguns]

@joseph said in Mastodon migration:

what you mean

Lemmy, Iceshrimp, OSSN, other software options

[DidierMalenfant]

@James Thanks for your reply and clarifying behavior

What about stopping the mastodon service? Is that possible from the app's console on Cloudron?