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Sysadmin Suicide Squad: ActivityPub

Authors: Aoi K.'); DROP TABLE Internet;-- <koizumi.aoi@kyoko-project.wer.ee>

Date: 31 Aug, 2022

I've started testing unpopular ActivityPub implementations that in

theory, should run fine on a small VPS or something with low specs on

KyokoNet yesterday.

Episode 1: Epicyon

The installation process went like a breeze, and I barely had to use

`pip`. Then I set up a subdomain on my DNS zone file, added said

subdomain to the ACME client and did the usual process, more or less.

I've had to write a wrapper script and a rc.d(8) script and mess up a

lot with it before I got it to work.

/usr/local/bin/epicyon

#!/bin/sh
env USER=_epicyon PYTHONBUFFERED=true /usr/local/bin/python3
/usr/local/epicyon/epicyon.py --port 443 --proxy 7156 --domain
epicyon.kyoko-project.wer.ee --registration open

/etc/rc.d/epicyon

#!/bin/ksh
daemon="/usr/local/bin/epicyon"
daemon_user="_epicyon"

. /etc/rc.d/rc.subr

rc_bg=YES
rc_reload=NO

rc_cmd "$1"

And followed the nginx setup on the README file. So far so good so what?

There was mostly one-way federation (i.e. I could see them, but they

couldn't see me, but that wasn't the case with misskey so far)

That undeniably confirmed my concerns about AP, from my personal

experience, so I wasn't really surprised.

I took down the node today because it was mostly pointless to keep it

up, and I wasn't gonna really use it anyway.

Pros:

works without JavaScript and literally any browser
practically effortless to host, but your mileage may vary

Cons:

the above mentioned issues, but that's a problem with AP itself

https://epicyon.net

Episode 2: GoToSocial

Was kinda easy but the result wasn't that good at all.

#!/bin/ksh
daemon="/usr/local/gts/gotosocial"
daemon_user="_gts"

rc_bg=YES
rc_reload=NO

rc_cmd "$1"

Not gonna bother to remember the `daemon_flags` of that thing.

I then did the usual reverse proxy and tls cert procedure but GtS

wasn't able to detect the static files for no reason at all, and the

page looked so out of place that I was like, ugh.

This one didn't federate at all with everything else, again

barely found by Misskey, but that's kinda about it.

Pros:

Written in Go
No JS required, in fact, it doesn't have a frontend included at all

Cons:

Ditto as Epicyon

-- snip --

I guess i'm just going to stop here, this is insane...