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

resources

• Tutorial for setting up better logging: https://krisztianfekete.org/self-hosting-mastodon-on-nixos-a-proof-of-concept/