Tag: mastodon

Five differences between blog and microblog

Are you using Twitter? Or maybe you explore the depths of the Fediverse, for instance through Mastodon. Or maybe you use both. These services tend to be called microblogging platforms. And maybe you also have your own blog. And if not, at the very least, you are reading this, pub…

Confusion with dashes and underscores

This issue is very strange. I still did not comprehend what happened exactly, but my brain tells me that somehow the docker-compose project changed it's automatic instance name generation from using hyphens to dashes. I do not want to go and replicate the issue right now on the l…

Cleaning mastodon media attachments

Being too occupied with the work for previous two months left me with absolutely no time for server maintenance. Especially the kind of maintenance that needs some thought or research before being being done properly. One of the things that got neglected this way is the VPS free …

Enable query stats in Mastodon with postgres

Clicking pghero under Mastodon Administration menu, the interface shows the Query stats must be enabled for slow queries orange warning, in the interface that looks like this: After clicking the blue Enable button, instead of a success, the error The database user does not have…

Running Mastodon with docker-compose

A minimal set of commands I had to do to successfully run Mastodon via docker-compose on the VPS. Many OS specific configurations are omitted, as I decided to use Arch on this VPS as well, which is not what most people choose for their server environment, at least not when caveat…