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<a href="https://firefish.org/">
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<img src="./title_float.svg" alt="Firefish logo" style="border-radius:50%" width="400"/>
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**🌎 **[Firefish](https://firefish.org/)** is an open source, decentralized social media platform that's free forever! 🚀**
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[](https://nogithub.codeberg.page/)
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[](https://ci.codeberg.org/firefish/firefish)
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[](https://opencollective.com/Firefish)
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[](https://liberapay.com/ThatOneCalculator)
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[](https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/firefish/)
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[](https://hub.docker.com/r/thatonecalculator/firefish)
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[](./CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
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[](https://codeberg.org/firefish/firefish/)
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</div>
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<div>
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<img src="https://pool.jortage.com/voringme/misskey/e7cd2a17-8b23-4e1e-b5cf-709480c623e2.png" align="right" height="320px" alt="Calc (the Firefish mascot) smoking a fat dart"/>
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# ✨ About Firefish
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- Firefish is based off of Misskey, a powerful microblogging server on ActivityPub with features such as emoji reactions, a customizable web UI, rich chatting, and much more!
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- Firefish adds many quality of life changes and bug fixes for users and server admins alike.
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- Read **[this document](./FIREFISH.md)** all for current and future differences.
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- Notable differences:
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- Improved UI/UX (especially on mobile)
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- Post editing
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- Content importing
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- Improved notifications
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- Improved server security
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- Improved accessibility
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- Improved threads
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- Recommended Servers timeline
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- OCR image captioning
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- New and improved Groups
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- Better intro tutorial
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- Compatibility with Mastodon clients/apps
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- Backfill user information
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- Advanced search
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- Many more user and admin settings
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- [So much more!](./FIREFISH.md)
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</div>
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<div style="clear: both;"></div>
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# 🥂 Links
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### Want to get involved? Great!
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- If you have the means to, [donations](https://opencollective.com/Firefish) are a great way to keep us going.
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- If you know how to program in TypeScript, Vue, or Rust, read the [contributing](./CONTRIBUTING.md) document.
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- If you know a non-English language, translating Firefish on [Weblate](https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/firefish/) help bring Firefish to more people. No technical experience needed!
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- Want to write/report about us, have any professional inquiries, or just have questions to ask? Contact us [here!](https://firefish.org/contact/)
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### All links
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- 🌐 Homepage: <https://firefish.org>
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- 💸 Donations:
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- OpenCollective: <https://opencollective.com/Firefish>
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- Liberapay: <https://liberapay.com/ThatOneCalculator>
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- Donate publicly to get your name on the Patron list!
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- 🚢 Flagship server: <https://firefish.social>
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- 💁 Matrix support room: <https://matrix.to/#/#firefish:matrix.fedibird.com>
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- 📣 Official account: <https://i.firefish.cloud/@firefish>
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- 📜 Server list: <https://firefish.org/join>
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- ✍️ Weblate: <https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/firefish/>
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- ️️📬 Contact: <https://firefish.org/contact/>
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# 🌠 Getting started
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This guide will work for both **starting from scratch** and **migrating from Misskey**.
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## 🔰 Easy installers
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If you have access to a server that supports one of the sources below, I recommend you use it! Note that these methods *won't* allow you to migrate from Misskey without manual intervention.
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[](https://codeberg.org/firefish/ubuntu-bash-install) [](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefish) [](https://install-app.yunohost.org/?app=firefish)
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## 🛳️ Containerization
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- [🐳 How to run Firefish with Docker](https://codeberg.org/firefish/firefish/src/branch/develop/docs/docker.md)
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- [🛞 How to run Firefish with Kubernetes/Helm](https://codeberg.org/firefish/firefish/src/branch/develop/docs/kubernetes.md)
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## 🧑💻 Dependencies
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- 🐢 At least [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org/en/) v18.16.0 (v20 recommended)
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- Install with [nvm](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm)
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- 🐘 At least [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/) v12 (v14 recommended)
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- 🍱 At least [Redis](https://redis.io/) v6 (v7 recommended)
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- Web Proxy (one of the following)
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- 🍀 Nginx (recommended)
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- 🦦 Caddy
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- 🪶 Apache
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- ⚡ [libvips](https://www.libvips.org/)
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### 😗 Optional dependencies
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- [FFmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/) for video transcoding
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- Full text search (one of the following)
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- 🦔 [Sonic](https://crates.io/crates/sonic-server)
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- [MeiliSearch](https://www.meilisearch.com/)
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- [ElasticSearch](https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/)
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### 🏗️ Build dependencies
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- 🦀 At least [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/) v1.68.0
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- 🦬 C/C++ compiler & build tools
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- `build-essential` on Debian/Ubuntu Linux
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- `base-devel` on Arch Linux
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- 🐍 [Python 3](https://www.python.org/)
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## 👀 Get folder ready
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```sh
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git clone https://codeberg.org/firefish/firefish.git
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cd firefish/
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```
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> **Note**
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> By default, you're on the develop branch. Run `git checkout main` or `git checkout beta` to switch to the Main/Beta branches.
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## 📩 Install dependencies
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```sh
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# nvm install 19 && nvm use 19
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corepack enable
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corepack prepare pnpm@latest --activate
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# To build without TensorFlow, append --no-optional
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pnpm i # --no-optional
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```
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### pm2
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To install pm2 run:
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```
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npm i -g pm2
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pm2 install pm2-logrotate
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```
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> **Note**
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> [`pm2-logrotate`](https://github.com/keymetrics/pm2-logrotate/blob/master/README.md) ensures that log files don't infinitely gather size, as Firefish produces a lot of logs.
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## 🐘 Create database
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In PostgreSQL (`psql`), run the following command:
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```sql
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CREATE DATABASE firefish WITH encoding = 'UTF8';
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```
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or run the following from the command line:
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```sh
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psql postgres -c "create database firefish with encoding = 'UTF8';"
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```
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In Firefish's directory, fill out the `db` section of `.config/default.yml` with the correct information, where the `db` key is `firefish`.
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## 🔎 Set up search
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### 🦔 Sonic
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Sonic is better suited for self hosters with smaller deployments. It uses almost no resources, barely any any disk space, and is relatively fast.
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Follow sonic's [installation guide](https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic#installation)
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> **Note**
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> If you use IPv4: in Sonic's directory, edit the `config.cfg` file to change `inet` to `"0.0.0.0:1491"`.
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In Firefish's directory, fill out the `sonic` section of `.config/default.yml` with the correct information.
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### Meilisearch
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Meilisearch is better suited for larger deployments. It's faster but uses far more resources and disk space.
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Follow Meilisearch's [quick start guide](https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/getting_started/quick_start)
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In Firefish's directory, fill out the `meilisearch` section of `.config/default.yml` with the correct information.
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### ElasticSearch
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Please don't use ElasticSearch unless you already have an ElasticSearch setup and want to continue using it for Firefish. ElasticSearch is slow, heavy, and offers very few benefits over Sonic/Meilisearch.
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## 💅 Customize
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- To add custom CSS for all users, edit `./custom/assets/instance.css`.
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- To add static assets (such as images for the splash screen), place them in the `./custom/assets/` directory. They'll then be available on `https://yourserver.tld/static-assets/filename.ext`.
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- To add custom locales, place them in the `./custom/locales/` directory. If you name your custom locale the same as an existing locale, it will overwrite it. If you give it a unique name, it will be added to the list. Also make sure that the first part of the filename matches the locale you're basing it on. (Example: `en-FOO.yml`)
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- To add custom error images, place them in the `./custom/assets/badges` directory, replacing the files already there.
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- To add custom sounds, place only mp3 files in the `./custom/assets/sounds` directory.
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- To update custom assets without rebuilding, just run `pnpm run gulp`.
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## 🧑🔬 Configuring a new server
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- Run `cp .config/example.yml .config/default.yml`
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- Edit `.config/default.yml`, making sure to fill out required fields.
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- Also copy and edit `.config/docker_example.env` to `.config/docker.env` if you're using Docker.
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## 🚚 Migrating from Misskey to Firefish
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For migrating from Misskey v13, Misskey v12, and Foundkey, read [this document](https://codeberg.org/firefish/firefish/src/branch/develop/docs/migrate.md).
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## 🌐 Web proxy
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### 🍀 Nginx (recommended)
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- Run `sudo cp ./firefish.nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/ && cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/`
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- Edit `firefish.nginx.conf` to reflect your server properly
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- Run `sudo ln -s ./firefish.nginx.conf ../sites-enabled/firefish.nginx.conf`
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- Run `sudo nginx -t` to validate that the config is valid, then restart the NGINX service.
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### 🦦 Caddy
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- Add the following block to your `Caddyfile`, replacing `example.tld` with your own domain:
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```caddy
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example.tld {
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reverse_proxy http://127.0.0.1:3000
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}
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```
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- Reload your caddy configuration
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### 🪶 Apache
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> **Warning**
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> Apache has some known problems with Firefish. Only use it if you have to.
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- Run `sudo cp ./firefish.apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/ && cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/`
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- Edit `firefish.apache.conf` to reflect your server properly
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- Run `sudo a2ensite firefish.apache` to enable the site
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- Run `sudo service apache2 restart` to reload apache2 configuration
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## 🚀 Build and launch!
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### 🐢 NodeJS + pm2
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#### `git pull` and run these steps to update Firefish in the future!
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```sh
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# git pull
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pnpm install
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NODE_ENV=production pnpm run build && pnpm run migrate
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pm2 start "NODE_ENV=production pnpm run start" --name Firefish
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```
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## 😉 Tips & Tricks
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- When editing the config file, please don't fill out the settings at the bottom. They're designed *only* for managed hosting, not self hosting. Those settings are much better off being set in Firefish's control panel.
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- Port 3000 (used in the default config) might be already used on your server for something else. To find an open port for Firefish, run `for p in {3000..4000}; do ss -tlnH | tr -s ' ' | cut -d" " -sf4 | grep -q "${p}$" || echo "${p}"; done | head -n 1`. Replace 3000 with the minimum port and 4000 with the maximum port if you need it.
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- I'd recommend you use a S3 Bucket/CDN for Object Storage, especially if you use Docker.
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- I'd ***strongly*** recommend against using CloudFlare, but if you do, make sure to turn code minification off.
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- For push notifications, run `npx web-push generate-vapid-keys`, then put the public and private keys into Control Panel > General > ServiceWorker.
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- For translations, make a [DeepL](https://deepl.com) account and generate an API key, then put it into Control Panel > General > DeepL Translation.
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- To add another admin account:
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- Go to the user's page > 3 Dots > About > Moderation > turn on "Moderator"
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- Go back to Overview > click the clipboard icon next to the ID
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- Run `psql -d firefish` (or whatever the database name is)
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- Run `UPDATE "user" SET "isAdmin" = true WHERE id='999999';` (replace `999999` with the copied ID)
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- Restart your Firefish server
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