>When the problem is claimed to be solved in an issue you found through an issue chain across github and gitlab

Not even bothering to report it my patience is officially over.

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.

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 system. I ended up having to make my own pleroma user and do the steps in a very specific order. But my god I finally got it. Almost. Now I can't create a new user cause of a new error lol.

installing pleroma on nixos is proving to be insane, even though it has services configured. The package doesn't include a "COOKIE" file which breaks `pleroma_ctl instance gen`. If I make my own cookie file and export it as a variable, it proceeds to fail reading a file that doesn't exist for some reason. I wanted to be super cool and configure it all with nix but I might just say fuck it and do something lame like ubuntu. It's not even hard to do normally I just have to make my life hard.

IDK I'm thinking breaking down barriers in walled gardens (federation, mostr bridge, etc) is pretty gamechanging. I do wish someone made a bandcamp clone that let me pay in sats though. There definitely is merit to being able to send someone money fast & easy without payment processors taking a cut.

Where else am I gonna get my crank material?

I still can't get over "fake news" being so dangerous. Even if everything labelled as fake news was actually fake, so the fuck what? Just verify it yourself and don't trust it at face value. Then again journalists think they are the only ones who should have the right of coming to conclusions.

IDK if my first draft actually deleted for everyone (nostr is weird) but here's the fixed version.

That must be why so many of them practically worship moderating as a holy act lol.

>join a free and open protocol
>it has free and open speech
Shocker. Than god they can blanket ban you for thousands of users at once to protect their hecking eyes!