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   Grey Area (greyarea@mitra.vpclmulqdq.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 22:52:16 JST Grey Area

   • Mitra

   Out of all the fediverse server options, @mitra was the least annoying to install on a VPS.

   The one stumbling block I hit installing on a RHEL-for-cheap-fucks system, was that since I don't use containers, the documentation's DB auth setup does not work out of the box (postgres at least as packaged in RHEL derivatives use identd and or SO_PASSCRED for authentication).

   For others that run into this database_url: postgres://mitra@%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fpostgresql/mitra just works, and the mitra user doesn't need a password.

   Pros:

   - Skimming the backend code, I didn't find anything that made me sad, and it was well written and readable.
   - Installation was mostly painless. I tried misskey at first, but I ran into "install a ts compiler or the frontend won't build". mitra for the most part just worked.
   - It was easy enough to disable the cryptocurrency nonsense.

   Cons (More like a feature wishlist):

   - It appears that while the backend supports "manual follower approval" the frontend does not. I do prefer more control over my social graph. I tried casually to use pleroma-fe with a mitra-backend but that didn't work for me.
   - I had to shit up my VPS with node so I can rebuild the frontend. Prebuilt assets would be nice.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 23:10:12 JST silverpill

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     @greyarea

     >manual follower approval

     Mitra only shows a lock icon if remote account requires approval. Local follow requests and approvals have not been implemented yet, but I'll keep in mind that this feature is needed.

     >I tried casually to use pleroma-fe with a mitra-backend but that didn't work for me.

     If there is any specific incompatibility, I could try to fix that.

     Also, bloat-fe mostly works, if you're into that kind of thing.

     >I had to shit up my VPS with node so I can rebuild the frontend. Prebuilt assets would be nice.

     You can extract static files from a deb package (I provide debs for every mitra-backend release: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra/releases/tag/v1.32.0).
     I think I could add these static files to mitra-web releases as well.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 02:01:13 JST silverpill

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     @greyarea How the documentation could be improved? CONFIG_PATH is mentioned in "Installation - Building from source" section of the README. Should it be documented elsewhere?

     >SO\_PASSCRED

     Interesting, didn't know about this trick. I will add postgres://mitra@%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fpostgresql/mitra along with other common variants to the config example.

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     Grey Area (greyarea@mitra.vpclmulqdq.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 02:01:15 JST Grey Area

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     • silverpill

     @silverpill

     Oh thanks for the reply. To reiterate, I do really like mitra, and most of my complaints are more "nice to haves".

     I don't have a pressing need for an alternate frontend, my reasoning was "The backend appears to have some notion of follower approval, I wonder if changing the frontend will get that working".

     >I think I could add these static files to mitra-web releases as well.

     The common deployment probably is a build without any extra configuration, so that would save a step.

     Apart from the config file syntax to get SO_PASSCRED pgsql auth to work, the only other gap in the documentation I encountered was that I had to dig through the mitractl source to find the CONFIG_PATH environment variable. But it was easy to find.

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     Grey Area (greyarea@mitra.vpclmulqdq.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 07:02:08 JST Grey Area

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     • silverpill

     @silverpill

     >CONFIG\_PATH is mentioned in "Installation - Building from source"

     Oh derp, so it is. It didn't occur to me that the env var applied to mitractl till I skimmed the source, though in hindsight, that is kind of obvious. Maybe a gentle reminder somewhere in docs/mitractl.md?

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 07:02:08 JST silverpill

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     @greyarea Yeah, good idea. Thank you for your feedback!

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 12:18:40 JST silverpill

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     @greyarea Check the attached mitra-web_1.33.0.tar.gz file here: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-web/releases/tag/v1.33.0

     This archive contains the static files.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 04:11:42 JST silverpill

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     @greyarea manual follower approval implemented in 1.34.0