Does anyone here have experience with GoToSocial's whitelist function and the maximum number of users per instance? Is it a possible alternative to Mastodon, especially in terms of moderation?

#GoToSocial #AskFedi @gotosocial

Soon I'll (most probably) have to travel to US for work, and I am somehow concerned for my privacy and also for my physical safety: news reports concerning many tourists and expat workers make me feel unwelcome.

I'll of course let the immigration check roam into my work phone and my work PC, which are provided by my company, but I have no intention of bringing my private ones along, as I can access my socials from any browser if I'll ever need to.

This is to avoid explanations or justifications, or useless arguments. I'm convinced to comply, since the alternative is fear and uncertainty.

As for my website, I'll keep it up and running. There are no critical statements towards the current administration. Maybe I can't say the same for my podcast, for which I brought offline a single, maybe to emotional, episode.

As for my #gotosocial instance, should I turn it off for the time of my trip? It should not be indexed anywhere as long as I am aware, but it could, however be browsed at the moment. Would it raise more suspicion if it's off or not? What do you think?

Creating A GoToSocial Instance on FediHost

https://video.fedihost.co/w/4wmHZT6YhrvoHeuBqTLYWd

alright i think i'm done dicking about with the gallery view thingy for now, it's looking pretty good

if you wanna preview it live i'm running it on my personal profile: https://goblin.technology/@tobi

try it on different screen sizes and stuff, it looks good :)

and here's a video preview too

proud of this!

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 89

Oh #PeerTube, you are making me do mental somersaults as I strategize about the best way to self-host my videos.

This newbie wants to ask: how many VPS’s are too many for someone who has little coding experience and has been self-hosting for just 3 months?

Fedi friends, I’m thinking of signing up for a THIRD VPS

Why?

My current setup:

5€/month Debian VPS with #YunoHost, where I’m self-hosting #GoToSocial (this account), #Friendica, #Pixelfed, #Fail2Ban and #LinkStack.
5€/month Ubuntu VPS where I am self-hosting my (upcoming) #Ghost blog (this will make me save a ton, compared to my current Ghost Pro plan).

Back to PeerTube: I could easily upgrade my #Debian VPS and install it there - the costs would be minimal and I would double my RAM and storage. But I am afraid of PeerTube’s consumption when it comes to bandwidth. As in: if I upload a video that for some reason becomes really popular, or if a bad actor decides to DDOS my channel, would that take down all my other self-hosted Fediverse instances? Since they are on the same VPS?

I could limit potential issues by having a dedicated VPS just for PeerTube.

What would you do?

And do you have recommendations for Europe-based VPS’s with affordable plans? (aside from Hostinger) I was thinking of #Hetzner…

#MySoCalledSudoLife #AskFedi

I made a little demo video where I'm going blah blah blah over the top of the #GoToSocial token + application features I've been working on obsessively the last couple of days. Here you go, enjoy my silly voice and the way I pronounce "T"s in letters. Beep boop.

With this release, Ivory now UNOFFICIALLY supports additional fediverse platforms such as GoToSocial, IceShrimp.NET. I've tried these platforms with mostly success.

The better the Mastodon API support on your platform, the better your experience will be. Obviously, platform specific features like emoji reacts or reply controls aren't going to be available. Still nice!

Edit: SNAC and Hollo crash for me. Thought they worked, sorry.

https://tapbots.social/@ivory/114110436182458268

Good morning Fedi friends!

I started the week in the best possible way: lunch with two @yunohost team members. I was trying hard not to fangirl too much

I thanked them profusely for their incredible work, empowering us all with the tools to self-host. It's thanks to #YunoHost that I have my own #Pixelfed, #GoToSocial and #Friendica accounts. I hope I'll be able to give back one day.

What else? This week I'll publish part 1 of a mini-series about #PeerTube.

Wishing you all a lovely day!

Last night I pushed some super basic custom CSS to my photo-focused GoToSocial profile @kamera@haugenh.us. While it's no Pixelfed, I like the simplicity of GtS.

• Gallery: https://fedi.haugenh.us/@kamera

To any considering running a personal fediverse instance, I highly recommend checking out GoToSocial. Don't be fooled by it's simplicity, it also gives control in a way no other fediverse platform I've tried has done, including interaction controls, control over post visibility – on ActivityPub as well as the web and RSS feeds – post importing and backdating, and of course custom CSS at both instance and profile levels.

Getting things up an running was easy for me due in large part to the fantastically motivated GtS community. Especially helpful for me were:

• FediHost by @fedihost for a quick start through dead simple managed hosting.
• Posty by @oli for a tool to manage old Pixelfed and Mastodon backups.
• Slurp by @vyr to import and backdate posts from Mastodon and Pixelfed backups (some of which I needed to run through Posty first for reasons).

we now have some GoToSocial docs about importing your archived posts in general: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/importing_posts/

most of the specifics are in the slurp docs, but if you write your own importer and think it might be of general interest to GTS users, please let us know.

Pour celleux que ça intéresse, ce nouveau compte de test utilise le réseau #GoToSocial, une plate-forme qui utilise activitypub pour se connecter au Fediverse. Normalement vous pouvez voir ce message depuis Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, Sharkey et plein d'autres réseaux !

GoToSocial est un réseau assez léger qui est développé pour des instances à toute petite échelle, généralement pour 1 utilisateur. Il est tellement léger qu'il n'offre en fait qu'une interface d'administration, il faut se connecter à un client externe (par exemple elk, phanpy sur pc ou Tusky, Ivory sur mobile) pour envoyer des messages et échanger avec les gens.

Je suis donc l'unique utilisateur de l'instance (qui en indique 2 mais c'est juste un autre compte de test qu'il faut que je supprime) et son administrateur. À ce titre j'ai établi des règles qui sont surtout des informations sur ma ligne de conduite et sur qui je bloque ou non. D'ailleurs j'ai également suivi une block list bien fournie, qui est la même qu'utilise @curator@mastodon.art sur mastodon.art. C'est là où j'ai mon compte principal et je suis très satisfait de cette modération stricte, efficace et bienvenue. La seule différence est que j'ai autorisé mastodon.social et .world que je ne peux pas masquer ou limiter (GtS autorise simplement le blocage d'instance)

Concernant l'aspect technique, j'ai installé cette instance de GoToSocial sur un VPS (serveur virtuel). Sans être un noob, je suis loin d'être un pro de l'informatique et j'ai fait ça assez simplement en utilisant Yunohost, une interface compréhensible qui permet de gérer un serveur de façon simple et compréhensible. Installer l'instance et la régler ça m'a pris quelques minutes (j'ai eu des petits soucis avec mon avatar mais ça vient de problème inhérent à Activitypub).

Si j'ai la foi et si j'ai le temps, je ferai peut-être un petit tutoriel. Ça sera plus facile puisque je laissé la limite de 5000 signes ici. En attendant, je vais continuer les tests. Il faut par exemple que j'ajoute des emoji!

À très vite !

Vbrrr Vbrrr de ragondin ! Autrement dit salut à toustes !

Nouveau compte donc nouvelle #Introduction : je suis Loki, artiste neuroatypique qui dessine et fait des prints avec des animaux déter, des personnages révolutionnaires et des esthétiques surannées. La ligne c'est #anarchie et #progresissme.
Vous me connaissez peut-être via mon compte principal @lokigwyn

J'ai créé ce nouveau compte sur #GoToSocial (un réseau connecté au Fediverse) et une instance autogérée à des fins de test mais je n'exclue pas, si ceux ci sont concluants, d'en faire un jour mon compte principal.

Je pouet en français et en anglais et je mets des alt sur mes images.

Quick test: can you see the profile image of the account I'm writing this message with?

Can you tell me which network you use (Mastodon, Pixelfed, GoToSocial, Pleroma, Miskey, etc.) and your client (Android app, Web app)?

Thanks in advance!

(My PP is set up correctly but is not displayed, I explain this on my main account, here:https://mastodon.art/@lokigwyn/114071281228472415 )

#Fediverse #Fedihelp #GoToSocial #ActivityPub

Petit test : arrivez-vous à voir l'image de profil du compte avec lequel j'écris ce message ?

Pouvez-vous me répondre en indiquant le réseau que vous utilisez (Mastodon, Pixelfed, GoToSocial, Pleroma, Miskey, etc.) et votre client (appli Android, appli Web) ?

Merci d'avance !

(Ma PP est bien configurée mais ne s'affiche pas, j'explique ça sur mon compte principal, ici : https://mastodon.art/@lokigwyn/114071256667923957)

#Fediverse #Fedihelp #GoToSocial #ActivityPub

Hi people who use #GoToSocial!

I'm in the process of setting up my account on my personal instance and I'm noticing that my profile picture isn't being displayed when you view the account from Mastodon (official client or other external clients) or Pixelfed.

I know it works because I've seen several GtS accounts here with PPs that display fine. Any ideas on how to get it to display?

#Fediverse #activitypub

CC @gotosocial @elena

Coucou les gens qui utilisent #GoToSocial !

Je suis en train de préparer mon compte sur mon instance perso et je m'aperçois que mon image de profil ne s'affiche pas quand on regarde le compte depuis Mastodon (client officiel ou d'autres clients externe) ou Pixelfed.

Je sais que ça fonctionne puisque j'ai vu plusieurs comptes GTS ici avec les PP qui s'affichent bien. Vous avez des idées pour que ça s'affiche ?

Anyone running an Open #GoToSocial server?

We're building a list of those open for registration. DM me.

Owning my Fediverse instance seems cool, but it is difficult to populate the timeline... even public timeline is empty at start. If you have not a previous account on an instance with many users, it is difficult to find interesting Tooters.
I could migrate my phpc.social account but I don't know if I will keep this #gotosocial instance.

Good to know, if you run #gotosocial on an Intel™ N280x cpu, embedded wasm does not work. Install gotosocial-nowasm tarball and ffmpeg, ffprobe and sqlite3 packages from your distro.
Otherwise you couldn't find account with emoji in the name or special profile photo.