mastodon-utils/README.md

🦣 Mastodon randomness

Random opinionated helper scripts & front-end customizations for my personal Mastodon instance (running on glitch-soc). You definitely don't want to use any of this as-is — check out my more general purpose mastodon-installer scripts instead.

Usage

AGAIN, DEFINITELY DO NOT JUST RUN THIS IF YOU'RE NOT ME!!! 😊

git clone https://github.com/jakejarvis/mastodon-scripts.git /home/mastodon/scripts

# apply vanilla patches:
cd /home/mastodon/live
git apply --allow-binary-replacement /home/mastodon/scripts/patches/*.patch

# apply glitch-only patches:
if [ -d /home/mastodon/live/app/javascript/flavours/glitch ]; then
  git apply --allow-binary-replacement /home/mastodon/scripts/patches/glitch/*.patch
fi

# compile new assets:
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
chown -R mastodon:mastodon /home/mastodon/{scripts,live}

# restart Mastodon:
systemctl restart mastodon-*

Patches

• favicons.patch: Use custom icon images instead of Mastodon logo
• robots.patch: Disallow search engines for all of Mastodon
• system-font.patch: Use the system's default sans-serif font stack instead of Roboto
  • Additional glitch-soc patch
• hide-contact-email.patch: Hides the mailto: link on the About page
  • Additional glitch-soc patch
• hide-rules.patch: Applies just to homepage, meant only for single-user instances
  • Additional glitch-soc patch
• hide-signup.patch: Hide the "create account" button (for aesthetics, not security!)
  • Additional glitch-soc patch
• [glitch-soc only] sidebar-logo.patch: Restore Mastodon logo in logged-out sidebar

License

MIT