I'm choosing Pixelfed for this instead of something easier like GTS because I already ran GTS on my Quest 3 and the steps here would be very similar. I want a challenge.

First things first I have to install Termux on this. There's like nothing installed on this phone

Oh my god Pixelfed has so many dependencies

At least I suppose I don't have to worry about locking down databases at least because my phone isn't exposed to the public internet. I'm just opening up like the https port via cloudflared

I do NOT like working with SQL

https://getcomposer.org/ Why does the guy change when you reload the page

Hrmmm php isn't loading php-redis

I'm just going to see if it'll work without it

after having it plugged in gaining no charge for an hour, my pixel 4a just jumped from 64% to 78%

Oh it just jumped to 87%

I do NOT like working with SQL

Migrations are failing on something from 2021

Okay, lunch break time. Pretty proud of my progress so far...

• prerequisites / dependencies / etc. installed
• MariaDB set up
• cloudflared set up
• Migrations applied thru may 2024 (still need to fix some more)

Back at it, and I got migrations working too! It's still so fascinating to me how much more involved of a setup process this has than GoToSocial. I don't want to imagine what Mastodon or *key would be like

Oh gosh. Is the phone running out of RAM? Why are some of the processes terminating and red in Termux

IT WILL FEDERATE!

Things keep running out of memory >_< It seems to struggle with any actual load I put on it more than "load empty timeline"

Why do the pixelfed docs not instruct you to enable everything that you need to enable to get federation working

The server is sooooo slow holy shit. GoToSocial FLIES compared to this