Mastodon/tech

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About

Mastodon consists of multiple components, including:

• the Mastodon application software (mainly Ruby and JavaScript)
• ...which runs under Ruby on Rails
• redis, an "in-memory database server" aka "dictionary" (see Wikipedia)
• Yarn
• Postgres
• a web server - typically nginx, but Apache also works

Files

• application: typically /home/<mastodon_user>/<mastodon> - but really, anywhere under the Mastodon user's home folder should work
• Postgres logs (usually in /var/log/postgresql)

Local Notes

• Woozle attempts to install Mastodon, several times