How to start up a mastodon VM

nixos-rebuild build-vm --flake .#mastodon 
./result/bin/run-nixos-vm

Now you can access mastodon at https://social.local.gd:44443

You will have to "accept the security risk".
It may take a minute for the webpage to come online. Until then you will see 502 Bad Gateway

TODOs

set up a domain name and a DNS service so we can do deploy this to an actual machine
set up an email service
add logging
- errors / logs
- performance
switch to garage / s3 storage
- SEE: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/object-storage/
decouple the postgres database from this machine
test with high use / throughput
configure scaling behaviour
- SEE: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/
remove the need for "accept security risk" dialogue if possible