Slackware Cloud Server Series, Episode 7: Decentralized Social Media
It has been a while since I wrote an episode for my series about using Slackware as your private/personal ‘cloud server’. Time for something new!
Since a lot of people these days are looking for alternatives to Twitter and Mastodon is a popular choice, I thought it would be worthwhile to document the process of setting up your own Mastodon server. It can be a platform just for you, or you can invite friends and family, or open it up to the world. Your choice. The server you’ll learn to setup by reading this article uses the same Identity Provider (Keycloak) which is also used by all the other services I wrote about in the scope of this series. I.e. a private server using single sign-on for your own family/friends/community.
Check out the list below which shows past, present and future episodes in the series, if the article has already been written you’ll be able to click on the subject. The first episode also contains an introduction with some more detail about what you can expect.