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Mastodon 4.1.x

The Mastodon containers are based on the images from the docker hub tootsuite. For general information on how to run mastodon, please consult the Mastodon documentation. One should note that Mastodon is patched here to work with HTTP and provide a simple password.

Access Data

Property Value
Container name mastodon41web
Username jumbo
Email jumbo@mastodon.localhost
Password password
Access Token token

Setup

You can install the Fediverse pasture via

git clone https://codeberg.org/helge/funfedidev.git
cd funfedidev/fediverse-pasture

Then create the initial database and user via

docker compose --file mastodon41.yml --profile init up mastodon41init

Then by running

docker compose --file mastodon41.yml --profile nginx up

and adding

/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1         mastodon41web

to your /etc/hosts file, you will be able to open mastodon under http://mastodon41web/.

Warning

First opening the Web UI currently takes a bit of time due to the need for webpack to compile something. This will hopefully be fixed in a future version.

Authorized Fetch

The setting of AUTHORIZED_FETCH changes the federation behavior of Mastodon. Basically, with AUTHORIZED_FETCH=true more requests are required to have a valid HTTP Signature and one can thus check that the requester is allowed to access said resource (or disallowed by being on a blocklist).

The setting of AUTHORIZED_FETCH can be changed by editing the file dockerfiles/mastodon41/mastodon.sh.

Note

A better solution should be found. It would be best if this didn’t require a new docker compose YAML file. There is an experimental mastodon41web_af in the compose file. Unfortunately, I haven’t spend the time yet to check everything works as expected.

Patches

Mastodon has to be patched to be used in the Fediverse Pasture, one does

  • Adjust the logic of account creation so a default password is used instead of a randomly generated one.
  • Adjust the Webfinger lookup, so that http is used instead of https.

Note

Using container names with many underscores lead to problems with running Mastodon.