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@TrollDecker right, yeah sorry
but is that where nginx should be pointed to (not assets but that public where that assets is) because this is confusing and i've seen a lot of duplicate assets folders before and i don't know which one is the right one for nginx to be pointing and this whole time nginx was pointing to a folder that didn't exist (/home/mastodon/live/public) and i changed it to what i though was right (/home/mastodon/mastodon/public) and i have no idea how it was working before
@TrollDecker and i don't know if this is where it should have been pointing and i want someone to tell me if i am doing the right things because there is literally no way to tell other than talking to human beings but my record track of talking to human beings about mastodon instance hosting is not great