So now that #bluesky allows for self-hosting, I spent the last five hours setting it up.
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So now that #bluesky allows for self-hosting, I spent the last five hours setting it up. Yikes! That was TERRIBLE! Subdomains make it cranky. DNS makes it cranky. Reverse proxies make it cranky. Sharing a domain with the #fediverse makes it cranky. It requires the ability to send email, even for admin users. Their default docker-compose is really annoying and then you have to do a bunch of silly things to make the admin shell scripts (that just call curl) actually work. And then you don't even get a cool handle out of it, so nobody is going to bother.
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@fastfinge This is an odd take as I know plenty of people on fedi that have set up their PDS and none have stated this. They all said it was a breeze
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@damon For me it was easier than setting up most fediverse softwares.
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@ml @damon I think it is pretty easy for folks setting it up on a brand new server/VM exactly like the docs recommend.
but tricky and not well documented to set it up on an existing server alongside other software, or otherwise do the install a little different.
and then if you go deep and hack on it, the codebase is cleanly organized and has great test coverage.
