I'm too stubborn to stop now. I figured it out finally. The issue is whoever packaged this for nix didn't (or couldn't) factor in needing to run instance gen *before* it makes the folders on your syst...
I'm stopping this is fucking madness. The "new error" is probably a library mismatch due to something on nixos. Guess the last couple hours were for nothin. Gotta just do it like a normal person from a ubuntu install and be boring. Might use a different platform too I was specifically going back to pleroma because of the existing options in nixos services.
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