Mastodon & Pleroma are federated social networks, in order to pull statistics I needed to use OAuth2.
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I’ve added a Dyslexia accessibility feature to my website which loads a Dyslexia-friendly font, woo!
This involved creating a small toggle function to turn the feature on and off, but when I reload the page it’s gone, so I had it bake a cookie so the function could trigger automatically on-reload. This still wasn’t enough I didn’t want every visitor to load the font, only users who click the toggle button, so I added a section to dynamically load the font.
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In addition to a typical PHP server, you will need to install the php-bcmath package. Install image processing libraries apt install jpegoptim optipng pngquant.
Following PixelFed’s Manual Setup instructions.
git clone https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed cd pixelfed composer install chown -c www-data:www-data -R storage/ Set the website domain name for the following variables in .env:
APP_URL, with protocol (https://) APP_DOMAIN ADMIN_DOMAIN SESSION_DOMAIN Using the Laravel “Artisan” console we prepare the app & database.
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HTTPS Everywhere [GPLv3+] Enforces the use of secure connections where known to be possible through the use of an updated white-list, this means where a website has the ability to deliver it’s bits to you over HTTPS(Secure HTTP) the add-on will tell it to. Browsing over a secure connection is intended to prevent third-parties, parties other than you and the server itself, from being capable of peaking into the connection and spying or tampering with the data.
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