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Migrate a Peertube instance from Debian to FreeBSD

       2417 words, 12 minutes

Not matter how hard I try, I can’t stand and learn those systemd and ip censored swearing stuff on Linux. Call me an old fart with muscle memory amnesia but I just want to manage my servers using rc scripts, ifconfig and route commands, and read my logs in syslog flat format. Anyway, my Peertube instance was running on Debian and I wanted to use some BSD instead of Linux.

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Why are you (still) using OpenBSD?

       784 words, 4 minutes

Last week-end, I was invited to the UNIX Social Camp in Dijon, France to talk about the reasons I still use OpenBSD these days and why should others do so; or at least, have a look at OpenBSD . This post is an English transcription of the original French slides that are available here .

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GoToSocial Adventures: migrate from Pixelfed

       762 words, 4 minutes

When I decided to stop publishing on Instagram, I seeked for alternatives and Pixelfed looked like a nice one. The fact that it had a migration feature from IG made me go for it. But for reasons, I don’t want to use this software anymore. And now that GoToSocial features the Gallery / Gram-style layout , it is time to migrate the account and its data to GtS.

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GoToSocial Adventures: migrate from Mastodon

       1023 words, 5 minutes

I already used a Mastodon account but wanted to migrate it to my brand new GoToSocial instance while keeping as much data as possible.

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GoToSocial Adventures: run on OpenBSD

       2285 words, 11 minutes

I used to run GoToSocial on OpenBSD but, one day, the port was marked BROKEN and I switched to using Mastodon on Linux. Still, I kept testing running GoToSocial on NetBSD, Illumos, FreeBSD and Linux. Not so long ago, GoToSocial started to compile and work pretty nice again on OpenBSD. After using it for about a year on a SearXNG side project , I decided that I would also use it as my primary account on the Fediverse . This post is about installing and running GoToSocial on OpenBSD .

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