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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Hi folks<br></div><div><br></div><div>Further to this, here's the tech details of this.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It's a VM that's been provisioned by the UCC ansible SOE - playbook at:<br></div><div><a href="https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/ucc-systems/ucc-ansible-soe/-/blob/master/mastodon.yml">https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/ucc-systems/ucc-ansible-soe/-/blob/master/mastodon.yml</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>(would need some minor tweaks before reprovisioning - so ping me if this needs to happen in future)<br></div><div><br></div><div>This provisions a VM named mormyrinae<br></div><div>There's the usual bunch of glue to get HTTPS traffic to the host; and also redirect the webfingers from synonyms for the UCC domains.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It uses the <a href="https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-mastodon/">https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-mastodon/</a> docker image for mastodon, with (currently) a local Postgres 13 database on mormyrinae [1]<br></div><div><br></div><div>It is backed up to:</div><div>services.ucc.asn.au:/space/services/mastodon/socialuccau<br></div><div><br></div><div>There are some "reserved" accounts for ucc, wheel, and committee which are still to be set up.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Ping me with any questions.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Mark</div><div>[1] We need to set up a more recent postgres DB server</div><div id="sig26513633"><div class="signature">--</div>
<div class="signature">Mark Tearle <<a href="mailto:mtearle@ucc.asn.au">mtearle@ucc.asn.au</a>></div></div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, at 9:52 PM, Mark Tearle wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>Hi folks<br></div><div><br></div><div>After a long incubation, UCC has joined the fediverse and now has a Mastodon server.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It's available at <a href="https://social.ucc.au/">https://social.ucc.au/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Members with UCC accounts can login with their UCC username (email may work too) and their password at:<br></div><div><a href="https://social.ucc.au/auth/sign_in">https://social.ucc.au/auth/sign_in</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>After signing up, you'll have a handle in the form @<a href="mailto:youruccusername@ucc.au">youruccusername@ucc.au</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mine is @<a href="mailto:mtearle@ucc.au">mtearle@ucc.au</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ping me if you've got any questions.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Mark<br></div><div>PS. If someone wishes to help with the theming, let me know and I can assist with access.<br></div><div>--<br></div><div id="qt-sig26513633"><div class="qt-signature">--<br></div><div class="qt-signature">Mark Tearle <<a href="mailto:mtearle@ucc.asn.au">mtearle@ucc.asn.au</a>><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>List Archives: <a href="http://lists.ucc.asn.au/pipermail/ucc">http://lists.ucc.asn.au/pipermail/ucc</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Unsubscribe here: <a href="https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/options/ucc/mtearle%40ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au">https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/options/ucc/mtearle%40ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>