With the help of other users here I have finally been able to get a PieFed instance up and running! I am running 1.5.3 (Docker install) and I've run into one small problem...trying to manually purge deleted posts always redirects to a page indicating that an error has occurred, the post is not purged. I am not sure how I would go about debugging this, but I will certainly provide any additional information that one might need. I appreciate all the help, the best part about the fediverse for me has to be the community! ๐
Edit: included screenshot of error page.
Basically, it is saying that it can't delete the post because that post's row in the database is still being referenced somewhere else in the database. In this case, it is being referenced by rows in the table where we store votes for the post.
This is the same issue that popped up recently for another user. For whatever reason, sometimes the database misses setting the deletes for post and comment votes to cascade properly. I tried and couldn't replicate the issue in my test environment. rimu is probably making a new database migration that will apply it again and that should fix it.