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Marco Rogers

I just learned a few important things from @renchap. Apparently the docker-compose.yml in the root of the mastodon repo is not mean to be used for development. It is meant for production deployment. That's a bit confusing, but I'll accept it.

However they have made significant improvements to the dev containers implementation after I said it didn't work. It seems much more viable now.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/b

4 June at 17:00 | Open on social.polotek.net
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ティージェーグレェ

@polotek thanks for the writeup!

I think I'll stick with @grunfink's snac (codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2)? I realize there are Docker instructions available for that too, but avoiding unnecessary layers of abstraction is a bigger win for me, every time.

@renchap

4 June at 19:37 | Open on rap.social
Marco Rogers

@teajaygrey @grunfink
Interesting. It looks like the only reason to use docker here is to run nginx for SSL termination. I agree that feels like more trouble than it's worth. If you read my blog post, you can stick something like caddy in front pretty easily.
polotek.net/posts/local-mastod

4 June at 19:45 | Open on social.polotek.net
Marco Rogers

@teajaygrey @grunfink also, it looks like snac supports the mastodon API. But does that mean it's meant to be "mastodon compatible"? Meaning it tries to behave like a mastodon instance?

4 June at 19:46 | Open on social.polotek.net
ティージェーグレェ

@polotek My apologies for the delayed reply!

I am AFK often and was kind of hoping someone more authoritative might chime in with regards to the Mastodon support in snac; since I am but a humble MacPorts maintainer down streaming snac.

"A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance" does sell snac a bit short, doesn't it?

Mastodon API support began with version 2.27, and the RELEASE_NOTES.md have more precise descriptions of the intention there than I can do justice rephrasing:
codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/sr

TL;DR, I think snac's Mastodon API support is there primarily to facilitate interoperability with other Mastodon-centric ActivityPub implementations and clients, e.g. @Tusky, @husky, FediLab (toot.fedilab.app/@apps), etc. It even supports @peertube videos as of version 2.46!

I admit, I don't have a lot of bandwidth to test all of that functionality myself, but I would guess from reading release notes that snac contributors may be testing a wider range of Mastodon clients than @Gargron ?

MacPorts does a lot of the heavy lifting from my end to test on older OSes and platforms for snac than I run personally, and the Port Health ports.macports.org/port/snac/d shows it building without issues going all the way back to OS X Snow Leopard.

Though I know @flexion tested compiling snac on IRIX vintage SGI hardware, and I'm guessing it even has a decent chance of building on much older systems with appropriate C compilers?

Out of curiosity, do you have a way of measuring the disk space utilization from your local Mastodon setup in Docker? I realize it's probably a bit of a challenge since multiple Docker instances were used if I read your write up correctly?

Food for thought: an aarch64/Apple Silicon compiled snac binary for version 2.53 is: 344520 bytes (345KiB).

Albeit that isn't representative of all the dependencies used to build it but even then I am guessing it's much lighter on resources than mainstream Mastodon + Docker, etc.?

@grunfink

@polotek My apologies for the delayed reply!

I am AFK often and was kind of hoping someone more authoritative might chime in with regards to the Mastodon support in snac; since I am but a humble MacPorts maintainer down streaming snac.

"A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance" does sell snac a bit short, doesn't it?

6 June at 13:46 | Open on rap.social
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