The #Debian project joins the fediverse by running a #Pleroma, #pixelfed, #Peertube and #WriteFreely instance 🎉
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSocial
@schmittlauch does that mean we're going to have lots of instances running "stable" five year old software versions?
@schmittlauch do we really need more places outside of mailing lists for debian maintainers' hot takes ;)
@schmittlauch this is tremendously amazing news! Thanks for sharing. However, I looked there the PeerTube instance does not open registration.
@paddatrapper @schmittlauch I love this. Big thanks for clarifying it more to me.
@schmittlauch Do they have an official Debian account yet?
@filipesaraiva @kde I already found a solution, you can always rely on Debian testing to be a bit behind 🙃
@schmittlauch I really wish we could have this in #nixos
But using these new amazing services is still not possible. This would have been a nieche where nixos could shine: Easily deployable fediverse services that even could depend on another, managed via #nixops or #krops ... *dreams*
But no, it is not even possible to deploy sourcehut yet. 😭
@musicmatze @schmittlauch There are already PRs for Sourcehut and Mastodon. It just lacks the people willing to put in the work and review the code.
Personally I think these modules don't belong into main Nixpkgs tree, but into separate repositories. Currently it's hard to integrate these repos, but eventually the #flake standard will make that much easier.
@erictapen yes, I agree. Would be nice to have something like the nixos-mailserver project, where one could just pull in a nixos-fediverse and then enable every service they want.
@schmittlauch does it mean debian has packages for pixelfed?
@swisstengu Not yet, but there's a Fediverse team dedicated to packaging such software https://wiki.debian.org/FediverseTeam
@schmittlauch just saw it while clicking on the links. Might be interesting, running a debian container on my fedora cluster is easy, and having proper dependencies and package is good 😎.
Have to recheck s3 integration in pixelfed though, apparently there are still issues at some point... This prevents clustering, meaning no HA... meaning sadness.
@schmittlauch Interesting choice, going for Pleroma instead of Mastodon as their go-to microblog
The immediate answer: NOW
peertube.debian.social/video-c… has 107 videos already!
@rhonda I know it's early days, and I respect that, but it is awesome to see the stuff you have already achieved!
Additionally, #Debian has a FediverseTeam taking care of packagin several #Fediverse
software for Debian systems https://wiki.debian.org/FediverseTeam