Been writing up a Soapbox installation guide only to discover how fucking easy Pleroma made this. HOW TO INSTALL SOAPBOX-FE ON YOUR PLEROMA SERVER (running Debian/Ubuntu).

ssh root@yourserver.tld

# Download .zip of latest soapbox-fe build
curl -L https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox-fe/-/jobs/artifacts/master/download?job=build-production -o soapbox-fe.zip

# Extract it to your Pleroma install
busybox unzip soapbox-fe.zip -o -d /opt/pleroma/instance

BOOM, DONE. That's literally it. No special configuration required.

It doesn't conflict with version control because pleroma/instance is gitignored, and to get rid of it you can just delete pleroma/instance. To upgrade it, just repeat the steps. So easy, I'm really amazed. It plays nice with static-fe too.