Setup a Pixelfed instance

[veganstraightedge]

Just like #1821 but for Pixelfed (Instagram alternative)

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Why

Using Pixelfed gives us a bit of resilience against a possible future where we get kick banned from Instagram.

Running our own server gives more control and less dependence on someone keeping their server running forever.

Server

Ideally, this would be run on Heroku, but be portable to some other server if we need to move it in the future.

Subdomain

Does it have to run at a subdomain?

I'm not sure what a good subdomain is. Though, I tend to want to stay away from vendor/brand names. For reasons.

Maybe photos.crimethinc.com or similar.

Apex domain

I think it'd be preferable if it could be an apex domain thing.
[email protected] or something as the CrimethInc. account + CrimethInc. server.

Other accounts

Probably not open to anyone to sign up.
But maybe we'd want separate accounts for all of the languages.

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
  etc

Some prior art

https://docs.pixelfed.org/running-pixelfed/prerequisites.html

I don't know of any. Please add to the comments if you know of / find any. Especially for running Pixelfed on Heroku.