Containerised Mastodon server on NixOS

If you're here to learn about how to set up a Mastodon server on NixOS the easy way - you can use services.mastodon.enable = true; and take it from there ! This post does describe a bit more convoluted setup than that. I’ve been on the fediverse on and off since friendi.ca started to be a thing. I remember hosting an instance at ponk.pink that suddenly got popular and the server melted away while I was apologising to the users. [Read More]