So an update. It turns out that all the issues were actually to do with Postiz rather than Authentic. - I tried installing a few other apps and linking them to Authentik but I ran into a few issues. Then I took Postiz and tried turning off the Atuthentik authentication and then just getting it to work with native user accounts. This initially didn’t work - it turned out that there were a few issues.

1. The startup procedure for Poztiz actually left the backend API service not running properly. I had to run the docker compose, get all the other services running and then stop the postiz container specifically wait a bit more and then restart just that container. That got the API service running.

2. Because I was just running it internally I didn’t have SSL certificates configured and was just using http - consequently I had to introduce NOT_SECURED: “true” into the environment section of the Postiz service in the compose file and then repeat the process above. This resolved a silent error in my browser where cookies used to manage the authenticated browser session were discarded because I wasn’t using SSL.

So success at least getting Postiz running. I am now going to step back, reconfigure it for Authentic retry.

I am going to guess that these issues might be relevant if you are running Postiz behind a reverse proxy (I’m not sure if this is being done with the docker compose set-up). I possibly also need to look at how much memory and CPU I have on my test VM.

I’ve posted similar details in Postiz Discord. If anyone else is using #Postiz and would like to exchange notes - please do drop me a mention. Always good to have other people to talk to about these things and share notes.

@vincent I have it running with the docker compose file… (I edited the domain in the compose file) but well from there I am a bit lost.

@frongt This is where basic suggestions are helpful for idiots like me…

@devaly Ah ok … it looks interesting… I might need to push on with Authentik in the meantime just till I get more of an idea - It might also prove useful when I need to link to LDAP and Azure AD

@devaly Is it possible to use PocketID without Https if I am testing it internally ?

@devaly I really just went for the one that Postiz had suggested and had some template configurations for … and it seemed to be one of the most used (oh and a friend had suggested it to )

It seemed like a great idea for people like @coopcloud and others like @Cloud68 doing hosting. The savings over running multiple instances of mastodon / pixelfed must be huge?

@UnfinishedProjects Oh cool. Ok. Must checkout #nodebb

@UnfinishedProjects Hve dipped out of this conversation but from the original post would something that can use federated identities be more suited …maybe hubzilla.org/page/info/home #Hubzilla

@lovingisliving But to answer your question I started playing around with Events and groups recently.

@lovingisliving Well I have but my family aren’t massive social media users so its pretty lightweight activity. I guess my experience is that friendica has a lot of features in there - I like groups and events myself but also I found myself looking at how one account can manage another - I thin this would be great for parent/child accounts - perhaps it might need a few more controls around what the child account can/cannot do …

I’m actually not far from creating another friendica instance just as a ‘trial’ server for people I know who want to try it out.

I wish I was more capable in taking ideas for features that I would find useful and turning them into deliverable things. I’m a Business Analyst so I can define the requirements but I need some dev friends to help me out doing the delivery.

@lovingisliving @zarapp I can only talk to my own experience but running an instance for friends and family has been pretty minimal effort

@lovingisliving What specifically were the issues that you ran into?

Improving it - that’s alot less work than recreating something from scratch.

@lovingisliving If you want a #Facebook replacement then look to #Friendica - rather than anything new.

@Kkk2237pl Can I suggest that success here is modifying and building on existing tools that work with other existing tools and making them work better.

For example - I found git.sr.ht/~cloutier/dotmakeup #dotmakeup by @vincent - which can pull instagram and twitter posts and syndicate them. #Friendica has add on that post to Twitter - so my thinking is that adding #dotmakup tools into Friendica would help allow users to migrate to Friendica while maintaining connections via Twitter and Instagram

Dropping back a bit Friendica works really well on #Yunohost - making #Yunohost easier to run on a homerouter as a drop in replacement for ISP supplied routers would mean that it would be easier for people to buy a bit of kit, take it home , turn it on , have their own ActivityPub server running fairly quickly and be linked into those existing communities (both ActivityPub and commercial)

@Kkk2237pl Can I suggest that you start with something simple where as much as possible is templated - im like a broken record on this but i use #yunohost simply because heaps of people are using the same config.

@Kkk2237pl Im no expert so you know take everything with a grain of salt but for me i flash all my routers with #openwrt including #tplink stuff… Butnthat gives me everything i need.

You probably do.everything with stock firmware though

@Kkk2237pl What ablut Just reposting them with note pointing to their original post date and location.

@Kkk2237pl What are you using for a router? A good uptodate version of something like ooenwrt, a separate subnet running on a different vnet and firewall zone.

Why the vps?

@pietervdvn Yeah I was aware that I could push the created item from streetcomplete into OSM and then it would be on Mapcomplete - that has been handy.

I didn’t know about the see nearby images feature - I’ll have to check it out.

Whats the situation with images that get uploaded via mapcomplete - I do see them in panoramax so its all flowing together there somehow.

Please don’t think that anythign I was saying was a criticism - there is such cool functionality there across all those apps.

I think what I was expressing is that I find myself similar actions / use cases from different angles you sometimes end up sort of switching apps and then thinking gosh I really should link this stuff together.