Thursday Bits 7/13/2023

10:41 So the reason that my avatar image is messed up is because I forgot to externalize the /gotosocial/storage directory from the docker container, so it’s basically empty every time I start the container. However I’m having no end of difficulty in mapping to an Unraid /mnt/user/appdata/gotosocial/storage directory due to permission issues. Annoying.

19:03 Okay I finally figured out that I needed to map the container directory /gotosocial/storage to Unraid directory /mnt/user/appdata/gotosocial/storage and then chown 1000:1000 /mnt/user/appdata/gotosocial/storage so that the gotosocial container has permission to access it. That should fix my avatar image.

19:05 And I forgot to make that last one public. I finally figured out that I needed to map the container directory /gotosocial/storage to Unraid directory /mnt/user/appdata/gotosocial/storage and then chown 1000:1000 /mnt/user/appdata/gotosocial/storage so that the gotosocial container has permission to access it. That should fix my avatar image so that it doesn’t disappear every time I restart the container.

19:18 Well I’ve learned that replying to a previous message doesn’t create the thread that I thought it would. It’s more like a private comment than a continuation, in the sense that only the top-level statuses appear in the RSS feed and on the web page, and the replies disappear unless you click on the replies button. That means every status update on here needs to be a self- contained, fully contextualized bit of writing.