Tips to Self-Host a Mastodon Server
A couple people I follow decided to host their own personal Mastodon server so they can be in full control of their instance. Here are their notes about it:
A couple people I follow decided to host their own personal Mastodon server so they can be in full control of their instance. Here are their notes about it:
Get verified on Mastodon with your website (Opensource.com)
Verifying your GitHub profile on Mastodon (Simon Willison’s TILs)
How to Verify Write.as and WriteFreely Blogs on Mastodon: I have verified that this works on Write.as. I was unable to get it to work on WriteFreely v13.2 but it does work on v14.0 – see this procedure.
This info is now deprecated. See Twitter API access levels and versions
I had been using self-programmed apps with Twitter API v1.1 to backup and provide search capability for my tweets, likes, and RTs.
But then I found out about the twitter-to-sqlite and sqlite-utils apps created by Simon Willison. These provide a much easier and very powerful way to backup, analyze, and search the full range of one's twitter data, including timeline, followers, following, lists, mentions, etc. Data is saved in a sqlite3 database for easy searching and analysis with sql querying.
It can also be used with the Twitter archive .zip download of one's data. Both twitter-to-sqlite and sqlite-utils are Python modules and are part of the Datasette suite of apps created by Simon.
Note: since this post was created on a Writefreely federated blog (via ActivityPub), it could be directly added to my Mastodon instance timeline by boosting it's federated link.
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