Original Repo: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

This Mastodon instance is part of my Bachelor Thesis, where I integrate DIDs and the DIDComm v2 communication Protocol in order to add a decentralized identity management, as well as a confidential, non-repudiable and transport-agnostic communication based on DIDs.

Adrian Sanchez

The code is running on the TU server: https://tawki.snet.tu-berlin.de/

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub where users can follow friends and discover new ones. On Mastodon, users can publish anything they want: links, pictures, text, video. All Mastodon servers are interoperable as a federated network (users on one server can seamlessly communicate with users from another one, including non-Mastodon software that implements ActivityPub)!

• Ruby on Rails powers the REST API and other web pages
• React.js and Redux are used for the dynamic parts of the interface
• Node.js powers the streaming API

• PostgreSQL 9.5+
• Redis 4+
• Ruby 2.5+
• Node.js 12+

Configure Nginx:

• First, clone the project

  git clone https://gitlab.com/Lisztos/mastodon
  

• Quick install nginx

  sudo apt update && sudo apt install nginx
  

• Copy configuration file from the repository sample to the Nginx folder

  cp ~/root/mastodon/nginx.conf.sample /etc/nginx/sites-available/
  

• Rename with your domain name

    mv /etc/nginx/sites-available/nginx.conf.sample /etc/nginx/sites-available/your-domain.com.conf
  

• Update the configuration file with your domain information

    nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/your-domain.com.conf
  

• Activate the Nginx configuration

    cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
    ln -s ../sites-available/your-domain.com.conf
    sudo systemctl stop nginx
  

• Open ports 80 and 443 (using UFW)

    sudo apt install ufw
    sudo ufw allow Nginx Full
  

• Get SSL certificate using Let's encrypt

    sudo apt install certbot
    certbot certonly --standalone -d your-domain.com
  

• Start Nginx

  sudo systemctl start nginx
  

Build for development

• Build main image

    docker build -f Dockerfile.dev -t mastodon:dev .
  

• Create and start container

    docker-compose up -d
  

• Restart Nginx

    sudo systemctl restart nginx
  

• When everything is running, we need to run the migrations

    docker-compose exec web rails db:migrate
  

Copyright (C) 2016-2021 Eugen Rochko & other Mastodon contributors (see AUTHORS.md)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.