Self-hosted #mastodon hurdle #1 crossed - I upgraded to 4.5.4 earlier today. In #portainer I did the "update stack" to repull the images. After I did that, all the containers disappeared which was a bit nerve-wracking. I hit the button a second time and they were all recreated.

That seemed fine but it was kind of a surprisingly long time before Mastodon was up and responsive. After it went from the Synology "I dunno" page to the Mastodon page, it was the default "Something went wrong" for some time. I guess I just need to be patient on these.

I thought I would have to re-apply my changes to increase the posting character limit but if this posts successfully then I didn't. All in all, this has been less trouble and less admin burden than I expected.

Update: Looks like only the JavaScript part of the hack survived and I still need to go fart with Ruby.