Well that was most of a morning wasted trying to install Mastodon.
I followed the instructions to the letter on a fresh install of Debian.
All I can conclude from this is:
a) I have done something wrong or...
b) Mastodon is an affront to systems architecture
I refuse to be defeated by this.
Basically the Mastodon install instructions miss out a very vital step when configuring Postgress.
Something to do with the default template not supporting UTF-8.
Oct 20, 2024, 10:05 AM@danieldurrans this was why I used masto.host
Oct 20, 2024, 10:06 AM@danieldurrans and for the few quid a month, in service of my sanity and wellbeing, bargain.
@bloor Yea, I think if I was seriously going to run my own then masto.host would be front runner. Today I just wanted to tinker a bit... shame that the install process is so convoluted and fragile.
Oct 20, 2024, 10:07 AM@danieldurrans My broad conclusion from the experience is that *Rails* is a profane affront against everything good in life.
@danieldurrans it certainly has that feel of “quick MVP in a language du jour that desperately needs a re-implementation for production use”…
@nickmurison I would call it a clusterfuck of dependencies.
@danieldurrans This feels like an OS packaging … thing (not quite “issue” but something like that) — I didn’t have a problem with collation/encoding stuff with Postgres from FreeBSD’s pkg