Until now, I have enjoyed using the Minio S3 Server together with my Mastodon instance metalhead.club to store media files. However, since last summer, the Minio project has unfortunately taken a turn that has prompted me to look for alternatives: First, the internal file browser was removed from the administration interface. Shortly thereafter, it was announced that Minio would no longer be maintained as an open source project. In addition, the distribution of Minio binaries was discontinued. This meant that there were no more updates. Minio has effectively been dead ever since at least as far as the community version is concerned.
However, I found a great alternative in SeaweedFS, which I recently switched my Mastodon instance to. Here, I describe the problems I encountered and how I solved them.