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Hello! We are prepping to run Moa as a public utility!

Thank you to James Moore as the original creator and maintainer of both the code and the public service.

Join us on Matrix chat #moaparty:matrix.org to get involved, or file an issue here.

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│  Instagram   │────▶║  moa.party   ║◀────▶│   Twitter    │
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                     │   Mastodon   │
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Link your Mastodon account to Twitter and Instagram

https://moa.party

Install

Requires python 3.6+

Moa is a flask app and can be run with python or proxied via WSGI.

• clone it
• On Debian/Ubuntu you'll need to apt install python-dev python3-dev build-essential
• Install pipenv pip3 install pipenv
• PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT=1 pipenv install
• cp config.py.sample config.py and override the settings from defaults.py
• MOA_CONFIG=config.DevelopmentConfig /usr/local/bin/pipenv run python -m moa.models to create the DB tables
• MOA_CONFIG=config.DevelopmentConfig /usr/local/bin/pipenv run python app.py
• run the worker with MOA_CONFIG=DevelopmentConfig /usr/local/bin/pipenv run python -m moa.worker

Features

• preserves image alt text
• handles boosts/retweets

Some code lifted from https://github.com/halcy/MastodonToTwitter

Twitter App setup

If you plan to use twitter then you'll need to create a twitter app first so the required crednetials can be obtained.

• Follow the steps here to get started https://python-twitter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html
• For the Callback URL use [moa_base_url]/twitter_oauthorized e.g. https://example.com/twitter_oauthorized
• Access Permissions need to be "read" and "write"

Example nginx/passenger configuration

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name moa.party;
    return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 443 ;
    server_name moa.party;
    
    # SSL
    
    ssl on;
    ssl_certificate     /etc/certificates/moa.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/certificates/moa.key;
    
    client_max_body_size 1G;
    
    access_log /var/www/moa/logs/access.log;
    error_log /var/www/moa/logs/error.log;
    
    location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
    
    passenger_enabled on;
    passenger_app_env production;
    passenger_python /var/www/moa/.venv/bin/python3;
    passenger_env_var MOA_CONFIG config.ProductionConfig;
    
    root /var/www/moa/public;
}