Comment by TazeTSchnitzel
9 years ago
I would assume it's just a case of installing your chosen software package on a web server. I don't know how easy that is. The more mature packages are probably better-documented in this regard.
9 years ago
I would assume it's just a case of installing your chosen software package on a web server. I don't know how easy that is. The more mature packages are probably better-documented in this regard.
It took me about 15 minutes to install GNU Social just now (I already had a webserver with php and mysql)
I haven't tried mastodon, but gnu social is pretty easy. There aren't enough tutorials on installing it, but I've had luck with the following (which I'm quoting myself from having posted them to previous comments):
* https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/
* https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-s...