Trammell Hudson @th@v.st
Trammell Hudson
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The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.
For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).
"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.
There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.
It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.
Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.
If you're curious about how the v.st SSO environment integrates the many services: https://git.v.st/vst/env
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Warning: I know nothing about proper devops and just banged the rocks together until everything seemed to work
If all goes well, we've moved to a new VM inside a docker-compose environment with OIDC single sign on for the v.st domain.
oh no this migration is not going to be painless
```
FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
mastodon-db
DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 12, which is not compatible with this version 13.4.
```
Enjoy the sunset on an odd bike route from Haarlem to Amsterdam via Schiphol https://youtu.be/C6KScFOj85o
Want to help integrate OIDC / OAuth2 into @pixelfed for SSO community management? My draft PR needs attention from someone who speaks PHP https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/3436
