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…

@brewery Oh cheers. Yeah I think I need to test setting up another app to confirm whether its Authentik or Postiz. The other app I am looking at is an open source core banking system so I think I’ll leave that one for a while and as you suggest try something more straight forward.

I’m keen to get Postiz working because I belong to a sailing club and its a time vacuum posting updates all over the place.

I’m interested do you you anything for social listening - I’d like to pull together a few social feeds from Twitter, Instal, Facebook and provide them to the few of us that are working on keeping the club’s profile up.

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

@geoma I think its more that you can run it across multiple compute instances - and for multiple organisations. So its supporting the case where your compute requirements have grown beyond one vm (or you want redundancy ) and where you have multiple organisations that you want to support multiple independent instances of the same (or different) suite of applications.

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?

@geoma Oh right yeah I am using a VPS. What kind of specs does your server have?

@geoma My other random though is that for instagram people the choice of app you recommend is probably as important as the backend that you use. Since thats the ui they experience.

@geoma In another chat there was a mention of #nodebb nodebb.org/product - just throwing that into the mix - probably creating chaos by doing so.

@UnfinishedProjects Oh cool. Ok. Must checkout #nodebb

@geoma @Tealk I can’t answer you on that but perhaps others have more direct experience. #Friendica can do groups but maybe not pages.

What’s limiting you on CPU? I guess number of users is not so much an important metric more number of concurrent users

@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

@geoma @Tealk I havent explored the alternative UIs for friendica but might be worth checking those out…

@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)