docker-mastodon-bird-ui

This repo is used to build the latest docker image for mastodon and include the awesome theme by @rolle (be sure to give them a follow) called Bird-UI which makes mastodon feel like the long gone, good old days of twitter. You can find all the details of this theme here: GitHub

It uses the default docker image directly from mastodon only modified by the instructions from @rolle.

Getting started

Building the image yourself

First check out this repository and pull the submodule in git:

git clone  https://gitlab.com/ric_harvey/docker-mastodon-bird-ui.git
git submodule update --init --recursive

You should then edit the build.sh file and replace --tag richarvey/mastodon-bird-ui:$mastodon_version --tag richarvey/mastodon-bird-ui:latest with the details of your own docker repository. Then you just need to run:

./bash

This script will download the theme and patch the locales file to display the options for choice, then build and push the docker images to your own repo.

Pulling from docker

You can pull directly from docker hub with the following command:

docker pull richarvey/mastodon-bird-ui:latest

Starting with v4.2.9 of mastodon you can also pull by a specific tag version:

docker pull richarvey/mastodon-bird-ui:v4.2.9

Running in docker compose

If you want to use the official docker compose method for running mastodon here is the modified code for compose.yml:

# This file is designed for production server deployment, not local development work
# For a containerized local dev environment, see: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/README.md#docker

services:
  db:
    restart: always
    image: postgres:14-alpine
    shm_size: 256mb
    networks:
      - internal_network
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD', 'pg_isready', '-U', 'postgres']
    volumes:
      - ./postgres14:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    environment:
      - 'POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust'

  redis:
    restart: always
    image: redis:7-alpine
    networks:
      - internal_network
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD', 'redis-cli', 'ping']
    volumes:
      - ./redis:/data

  # es:
  #   restart: always
  #   image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.17.4
  #   environment:
  #     - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m -Des.enforce.bootstrap.checks=true"
  #     - "xpack.license.self_generated.type=basic"
  #     - "xpack.security.enabled=false"
  #     - "xpack.watcher.enabled=false"
  #     - "xpack.graph.enabled=false"
  #     - "xpack.ml.enabled=false"
  #     - "bootstrap.memory_lock=true"
  #     - "cluster.name=es-mastodon"
  #     - "discovery.type=single-node"
  #     - "thread_pool.write.queue_size=1000"
  #   networks:
  #      - external_network
  #      - internal_network
  #   healthcheck:
  #      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "curl --silent --fail localhost:9200/_cluster/health || exit 1"]
  #   volumes:
  #      - ./elasticsearch:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
  #   ulimits:
  #     memlock:
  #       soft: -1
  #       hard: -1
  #     nofile:
  #       soft: 65536
  #       hard: 65536
  #   ports:
  #     - '127.0.0.1:9200:9200'

  web:
    build: .
    image: ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon:v4.2.9
    restart: always
    env_file: .env.production
    command: bundle exec puma -C config/puma.rb
    networks:
      - external_network
      - internal_network
    healthcheck:
      # prettier-ignore
      test: ['CMD-SHELL', 'wget -q --spider --proxy=off localhost:3000/health || exit 1']
    ports:
      - '127.0.0.1:3000:3000'
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
      # - es
    volumes:
      - ./public/system:/mastodon/public/system

  streaming:
    build: .
    image: ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon:v4.2.9
    restart: always
    env_file: .env.production
    command: node ./streaming
    networks:
      - external_network
      - internal_network
    healthcheck:
      # prettier-ignore
      test: ['CMD-SHELL', 'wget -q --spider --proxy=off localhost:4000/api/v1/streaming/health || exit 1']
    ports:
      - '127.0.0.1:4000:4000'
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis

  sidekiq:
    build: .
    image: ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon:v4.2.9
    restart: always
    env_file: .env.production
    command: bundle exec sidekiq
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
    networks:
      - external_network
      - internal_network
    volumes:
      - ./public/system:/mastodon/public/system
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD-SHELL', "ps aux | grep '[s]idekiq\ 6' || false"]

  ## Uncomment to enable federation with tor instances along with adding the following ENV variables
  ## http_hidden_proxy=http://privoxy:8118
  ## ALLOW_ACCESS_TO_HIDDEN_SERVICE=true
  # tor:
  #   image: sirboops/tor
  #   networks:
  #      - external_network
  #      - internal_network
  #
  # privoxy:
  #   image: sirboops/privoxy
  #   volumes:
  #     - ./priv-config:/opt/config
  #   networks:
  #     - external_network
  #     - internal_network

networks:
  external_network:
  internal_network:
    internal: true

Help needed

So far the English and Finish locales are patched so the theme appears in the preferences section under "Appearance". If you can provide a new translation in the patches directory for another language that would be most appreciated please submit a merge/pull request.

There's no need to generate the diff file as build.sh generates these for you.