@breadsmasher I wouldnt mind if they were required to include easily filtered keywords such a #ad or #closedsource or #selfpromotion or something like that.

I occasionally come across people who think they have an amazing product and when you engage they realise that its better to just opensource it.

Similarly having the opportunity to discuss their product with others in front of them can help people who might not realise their drawbacks...

So an update. It turns out that all the issues were actually to do with Postiz rather than Authentic. - I tried installing a few other apps and linking them to Authentik but I ran into a few issues. Then I took Postiz and tried turning off the Atuthentik authentication and then just getting it to work with native user accounts. This initially didn't work - it turned out that there were a few issues.

1. The startup procedure for Poztiz actually left the backend API service not running properly. I had to run the docker compose, get all the other services running and then stop the postiz container specifically wait a bit more and then restart just that container. That got the API service running.

2. Because I was just running it internally I didn't have SSL certificates configured and was just using http - consequently I had to introduce NOT_SECURED: "true" into the environment section of the Postiz service in the compose file and then repeat the process above. This resolved a silent error in my browser where cookies used to manage the authenticated browser session were discarded because I wasn't using SSL.

So success at least getting Postiz running. I am now going to step back, reconfigure it for Authentic retry.

I am going to guess that these issues might be relevant if you are running Postiz behind a reverse proxy (I'm not sure if this is being done with the docker compose set-up). I possibly also need to look at how much memory and CPU I have on my test VM.

I've posted similar details in Postiz Discord. If anyone else is using #Postiz and would like to exchange notes - please do drop me a mention. Always good to have other people to talk to about these things and share notes.

@vincent I have it running with the docker compose file.. (I edited the domain in the compose file) but well from there I am a bit lost.

@frongt This is where basic suggestions are helpful for idiots like me..

@brewery A specific question - Does your Authorise URL for Postiz return a 404 when you load it via a browser? Is it /application/o/authorize/ ? because that seems oddly non-specific for a specific application...

@brewery So .. I'm having a go at Mobilizon - but continuing to feel out of my depth - I may need a responsible adult :wink:

@brewery Oh cheers. Yeah I think I need to test setting up another app to confirm whether its Authentik or Postiz. The other app I am looking at is an open source core banking system so I think I'll leave that one for a while and as you suggest try something more straight forward.

I'm keen to get Postiz working because I belong to a sailing club and its a time vacuum posting updates all over the place.

I'm interested do you you anything for social listening - I'd like to pull together a few social feeds from Twitter, Instal, Facebook and provide them to the few of us that are working on keeping the club's profile up.

@devaly Ah ok .. it looks interesting.. I might need to push on with Authentik in the meantime just till I get more of an idea - It might also prove useful when I need to link to LDAP and Azure AD

@devaly I really just went for the one that Postiz had suggested and had some template configurations for .. and it seemed to be one of the most used (oh and a friend had suggested it to )

@devaly Is it possible to use PocketID without Https if I am testing it internally ?

Of course #briar I knew I downloaded that for a reason.

What devices do you have? Check if they are suppprted by #gadgetbridge gadgetbridge.org/

@TheGrandNagus

@fne8w2ah @technology
The important thing here is this avoids what happened with (and sorry i have to mention this ) #wordpress where one guy personally ran the org that guided the development of the software and then created dependencies on a central site he personally owns to control updates and access to plugins
Ownership of #trademark terms are important and open structures for things like.joinmastodon.org is as well

@SelfhostedResearch Something I havent quite reconciled is that I would enjoy self hosting more of it came with more mutual connections woth others that self host. Its a activity that has a focus on self sufficiency but I think I would learn more and be better if I was doing it more socially.

@Shimitar @yunohost - / #yunohost has email hosting with dovecot and #spamhaus configured in it. There were some issues with spamhaus when running version 11 on vps but i read v12 fixed them.

@irmadlad Thanks. I live a long way away amd only get to visit occasionally so as they get older the opportunity to do things together online is important to me.

@Gayhitler Oh yeah .. we also considered both sign language and private jets but the couldn't agree on what type of either.

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Have a look at lemmy.world/c/selfhosted - If you have a group of family or friends I think its a good way to get them on board and curate an instance that is useful for them.

Doesnt need to be #Mastodon - could be #Friendica or #Gotosocial

Lots of ways to simplify the process - I use #Yunohost gives me Email, Nextcloud and ActivityPub for friends and family

Ideally Id eventually like to see something like this packaged into a router like #openwrtone One

@ByteMe Look at publishing it on #fdroid @fdroidorg may be of help.

@Toasted_Breakfast How aboit starting with something like #yunohost