…an opinionated ‘Cheat Sheet’ to a fast Linux install of Flarum

Dear fellow or potential fellow gotosocial instance admins, I’ve come up with a novel way to set up a gotosocial server behind a reverse proxy, which avoids the use of making new firewalling rules - both on a VPS, and creating port forwarding on one’s home router. This method is ideal for minimizing the cost of running one’s own ActivityPub/Mastodon server, in a way that leverages inexpensive fast storage on the backend (say, on a RaspberryPi 5, 2GB of RAM, with an NVMe).

Perfect is the enemy of good

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It’s been a looong time since I used putty (I ran it in a Wine “bottle”, these came from flatpak, I’m using Debian 13 KDE). To the author of putty: Thanks for all your efforts! To my mind, 98% of the time, people would use putty to log into a linux box/VPS, like say a Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi OS, is Debian Trixie 13-based). This would be a sensible default assumption, demographically.