2019-11-16 Pleroma

OK, so I tried *Epicyon* and it used a lot of CPU cycles doing not much. Would *Pleroma* fare any better?

I am ready to give it a try: Installing on Debian Based Distributions.

Installing on Debian Based Distributions

`apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib elixir erlang erlang-dev erlang-tools erlang-parsetools erlang-ssh erlang-xmerl`

Well, I was following the instructions until I got to this step:

root@sibirocobombus:/opt/pleroma# **sudo -Hu pleroma mix deps.get**
!!! RUNNING IN LOCALHOST DEV MODE! !!!
FEDERATION WON'T WORK UNTIL YOU CONFIGURE A dev.secret.exs
Could not find Hex, which is needed to build dependency :phoenix
Shall I install Hex? (if running non-interactively, use "mix local.hex --force") [Yn]

    :inets.stop(:httpc, :mix)
    (mix) lib/mix/utils.ex:560: Mix.Utils.read_httpc/1
    (mix) lib/mix/utils.ex:501: Mix.Utils.read_path/2
    (mix) lib/mix/local.ex:149: Mix.Local.read_path!/2
    (mix) lib/mix/local.ex:126: Mix.Local.find_matching_versions_from_signed_csv!/2
    (mix) lib/mix/tasks/local.hex.ex:56: Mix.Tasks.Local.Hex.run_install/1
    (mix) lib/mix/dep/loader.ex:168: Mix.Dep.Loader.with_scm_and_app/4
    (mix) lib/mix/dep/loader.ex:121: Mix.Dep.Loader.to_dep/3

This helped:

`apt install erlang-inets`

🙂

I also changed `registrations_open` to `false` in `config/prod.secret.exs`.

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And I wrote my first Elixir code with the help of @wim_v12e:

@wim_v12e

diff --git a/lib/mix/tasks/pleroma/user.ex b/lib/mix/tasks/pleroma/user.ex
index a3f8bc945..964209c96 100644
--- a/lib/mix/tasks/pleroma/user.ex
+++ b/lib/mix/tasks/pleroma/user.ex
@@ -442,6 +442,20 @@ defmodule Mix.Tasks.Pleroma.User do
     end
   end

+  def run(["list"]) do
+    start_pleroma()
+
+    Pleroma.User.Query.build(%{local: true})
+    |> Pleroma.RepoStreamer.chunk_stream(500)
+    |> Stream.each(fn users ->
+      users
+      |> Enum.each(fn user ->
+        shell_info("#{user.nickname} moderator: #{user.info.is_moderator}, admin: #{user.info.is_admin}, locked: #{user.info.locked}, deactivated: #{user.info.deactivated}")
+      end)
+    end)
+    |> Stream.run()
+  end
+
   defp set_moderator(user, value) do
     info_cng = User.Info.admin_api_update(user.info, %{is_moderator: value})

This allows me to run:

root@sibirocobombus:/opt/pleroma# **sudo -Hu pleroma MIX_ENV=prod mix pleroma.user list**
Compiling 1 file (.ex)
internal.fetch moderator: false, admin: false, locked: false, deactivated: false
alex moderator: false, admin: true, locked: false, deactivated: false
admin moderator: false, admin: true, locked: false, deactivated: false
kensanata moderator: false, admin: false, locked: false, deactivated: false

– Alex Schroeder 2019-11-17 13:29 UTC

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For now I’m happy with Pleroma. Notice how load came back down again after switching from Epicyon to Pleroma and PostgreSQL. I wasn’t running a database before the Pleroma installation.

Load

– Alex Schroeder 2019-11-17 21:11 UTC

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It’s still running on my server without acting up. I’m happy even though I had to install a database for it. Should I ever want a lightweight server, another project to look at would be Kibou. It’s written in Rust instead of Erlang+Elixir. Not sure whether I like that better but there it is.

Kibou

– Alex Schroeder 2019-12-10 21:58 UTC

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Upgrade:

sudo -Hu pleroma git pull
sudo -Hu pleroma mix deps.get
sudo systemctl stop pleroma
sudo -Hu pleroma MIX_ENV=prod mix ecto.migrate
sudo systemctl start pleroma

– Alex Schroeder 2020-01-02 14:23 UTC

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Actually, now that I think about it, I don’t really use it for anything. I’ll simply uninstall it again. It worked. It was nice. Time to do something else.

– Alex Schroeder 2020-01-07 21:39 UTC