[progval]

Mastodon has hundreds of Nodejs and Ruby dependencies, so it would be a huge amount of work for distributions to package it. See https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/3576

FreeBSD's ports used to have Mastodon, but they gave up because it kept breaking https://www.freshports.org/net-im/mastodon/

You can however run Mastodon with docker, many people use the official docker-compose.yml config.

[newnewpdro]

Yikes, do you know of any activitypub-compatible implementations actually packaged by distros? gnu social perhaps? diaspora?

I checked out Pleroma after seeing it mentioned on that freshports mastodon page, which seemed a bit less onerous with just the OTP component but they don't distribute an i686 build, that's unfortunately what the dusty old colo I'm looking to run this on has.

[progval]

Debian Sid has Diaspora: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/diaspora , but Diaspora doesn't support ActivityPub: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7422#issuecommen...

As for GNU Social, well... https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/GNUSocial

You might be interested in Yunohost, which is a Debian-based distro packaging popular server applications (also with an easy installer, aimed at non-technical people): https://yunohost.org/

[newnewpdro]

> Debian Sid has Diaspora: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/diaspora , but Diaspora doesn't support ActivityPub: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7422#issuecommen....

For posterity sake:

I just spent an hour trying to get that package happily installed in a fresh debian sid debootstrap running in nspawn and it seems to be broken. They're requiring an old 1.2.x ruby-zip version, and sid seems to only have 2.0. Even after kludging past that, things break down again on unmet sass version requirements.

So true to the 'unstable' name, this package isn't currently usable.

[progval]

You may want to submit a bug report: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

This will more likely result in the package being removed rather than fixed, but at least someone else won't get false hope.

[newnewpdro]

I emailed [e-mail] FWIW