

Remember the site you fetched the page from? Change all occurrences of that site (for example, mastodon.social to yours:.

Format it using a code formatter to save your eyes from burning. It is quite large for some text editors (~25 KiB). Now that you've shut the mastodon in the cage, this is where the fun begins. The files should load in their respective place because the filepaths are substituted with /about_files/xxx, except for external links, which are retained, e.g. Vlcsnap-16h43m11s127.png # the mastodon-paper planes-trumpet picture You will see your files in a structure like: about.html Press ctrl+s to save about.html, as well as its embedded files into a directory called about_files. Chromium seemed to be unable to fetch the files? idk. Download the page using your browser, including the files. You will be redirected to its about page, which looks like the screenshot above.

Go to a Mastodon instance you are logged out of. Let's call this domain throughout the tutorial. Set up an A/AAAA record pointing to your server IP. If you already have one, you can always add a subdomain record into its DNS settings, typically available in the registrar's web panel. You need either a working nginx, or python+pyramid. Therefore, this repo only contains a guide to make your own Rickstodon in N easy steps.
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See video demo hosted on How to host it?īecause Mastodon is licensed under AGPL, and the frontend is not explicitly excluded, I doubt the legitimacy to redistribute it unlicensed. Rickstodon - Rickroll Your Friends (or Foes) With A Fake Mastodon Registration Page - Introducing a new way to present an old prank
