We're missing documentation on how to run Mastodon as a hidden (e.g. #Tor) service. If you know how to do it, please either submit it or tell me so I can write it down

#mastodev

@Gargron Requires ssl so it's like normal but you need to have a self signed cert

@Sir_Boops Imagine you're explaining it to someone who never used Tor (because you are)

@Gargron

> Setup mastodon following the usual steps except generate a self-signed cert ( Because you /can't/ get certs for .onion addresses )

> Install tor and add append these three lines to the end of the torrc file

HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/<some name>/
HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80
HiddenServicePort 443 127.0.0.1:443

And that's it it's now on tor

Now it won't fed because other instances won't take the broken ssl but that's a masto issue ;p

@Sir_Boops How install tor? apt install tor?

@Gargron For what distro?

You should pull it right from them vs using system packages

https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en

@Sir_Boops @Gargron If you're using Debian Testing (or even Debian Sid), you can pull tor from Debian's repos

It is also recommended to use the new version of Onion Services by adding HiddenServiceVersion 3 right after what Sir_Boops said, as explained here: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-onion-service.html.en#four