@morenonatural my #GoToSocial rc.d script is displayed here https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/gotosocial-adventures-run-on-openbsd/#rcd-management-script #My2Cents

Cc: @openbsdnow @OpenBSDAms @openbsd

Working on a brand new post for my series "a newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost" - showing people how to set up their own #GoToSocial microblogging instance.

Sorry it's been taking a while: I started over when I realized most people use subdomains... and I'm doing a thorough step-by-step explainer that any newbie could follow - I hope 😅

The whole series is available here:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/

#SelfHosting #MySoCalledSudoLife #blog

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a screenshot of GoToSocial's installation page on YunoHost that reads: "GoToSocial Current version: 0.22.0~ynh1 Potential alternative to: Akkoma, Bluesky, Calckey, Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Threads, X GoToSocial is a fast ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang. With GoToSocial, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles. All without being tracked or advertised to! The official documentation is at docs.gotosocial.org. Admins are strongly encouraged to read the documentation of this package after installing it. It is available in the webadmin under Applications > gotosocial (at the bottom) or here on the package's repository! Please note that this package uses the "i'm so tired" software license 1.0, please read it and accept it before proceeding with installation."

@kim's massive chore PR to remove #GoToSocial's dependency on Gin got squerged a while ago: https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pulls/4847

Gin was useful for a while when GtS was in its infancy cuz Go didn't have decent http routing stuff in the standard library back then. But now it does! And not only that, but Gin started accepting LLM contributions recently, so it clearly had to go 🤢

We'll keep monitoring + trying to remove dependencies on "ai"-happy code as we go along; and, as always, we will continue to forbid any LLM-based contributions to GtS itself, because ew, ick, yikes, gross.

Happy slothin'

Can anyone who are using Mastodon instead of for an example GoToSocial or Plemora, confirm if the relay feature do not require the owner of an instance to accept or deny the relay subscription?

I am using GoToSocial and their relay subscription feature requires a owner of another instance to accept or deny my relay subscription request. Source: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/stable/admin/relay_subscriptions/

I don't want to wait "forever" until I can get toots from the instances I want to subscribe to.

#askfedi #askfediverse #gotosocial

Thank you so much for all your help so far 😍 Wow!

With the donations we've reached overnight, according to OpenCollective we now have an estimated monthly budget of €727!

For our first goal we're aiming for an estimated monthly budget of €2,500, so that we can pay hosting costs and pay ourselves €1,000 each per month as a basic supplement.

So we're still looking for an extra €1773 per month! Can you help us with a monthly (or yearly) donation?

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial#category-CONTRIBUTE

Thank you so much again for helping to make #GoToSocial development easier + less stressful for us (Tobi + Kim).

Hi everyone!! <3

Over the last week your generous donations to #GoToSocial have brought our OpenCollective budget up from ~€450 per month to the current total estimate of €950 per month!! That's amazing, thank you so much to everyone who has donated, and boosted our fundraising posts (see thread above)

That means we're a lot closer to our initial goal of getting an estimated monthly budget of €2,500 so that Tobi (writing this post) and Kim can pay themselves a supplementary wage of €1,000 each every month.

Can you help us reach €2,500 a month, to make our work on GoToSocial less stressful and haphazard? We have yearly, monthly, and custom donations available:

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial#category-CONTRIBUTE

Thank you again for reading, boosting, and/or donating, everything helps <3

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The OpenCollective funding thingy for GoToSocial showing a budget of 950 euros per month, as well as our goals of 2500 per month, 4500 per month, and our dream goal of 8500 per month.

Self-hosted fedi platform apps
good for single-user servers

#Snac2, #Mitra, #GoToSocial, #Bonfire

Hello sloth valuers! #GoToSocial could use your help!

TL;DR, please help us by donating to our OpenCollective page so we (Tobi and Kim) can pay ourselves a basic monthly wage.

Long explanation:

In order to keep work on the GtS codebase buzzing along, Tobi and Kim have to perform the increasingly expensive chore of maintaining their flesh temples by consuming calories, keeping warm and dry (or cool and wet, depending on the circumstances), doing routine bodily maintenance, and so on. Not to mention paying for electricity, internet, etc.

The money we need for all this has so far largely been provided to us by NLnet, the Dutch organization that funds a lot of fediverse projects (among other interesting things). NLnet's support has been of incredible value. Indeed, without it GoToSocial would not exist in its current form; we'd have long since had to get "real jobs" and GtS would have been relegated to being a side project.

However, due to the way that funding from NLnet works, we get paid only for delivering features that we scope out long in advance of when the funding period actually begins. In other words, we get paid every time we merge a big feature, details of which are agreed up to a year beforehand. However, this payout happens only intermittently, since big features take a large amount of time to write.

As everyone who works on code knows, there's more to a project than just writing headline features. We don't get paid for spending time doing things like maintenance, bugfixes, small bonus features, refactoring, triage, helping people in the Matrix chats, code review, and what have you. So, the intermittent way that we get paid means we have to juggle working on very important but unpaid "maintenance" stuff, alongside paid "feature" stuff when our bank accounts start to look worryingly moth-filled. This causes semi-regularly panics in the both of us, as neither of us are particularly resilient when it comes to dealing with financial pressures.

To make working on GoToSocial more sustainable, then, we want to be able to pay ourselves--the two most active devs--a basic monthly salary for all the work we do that isn't big headline features. This will allow us to commit time to unglamorous but vital maintenance chores, without the constant background worry that by doing so we're going to end up running out of money at a critical moment. To make this happen, we need your help!

Thanks to all our donors on OpenCollective and Liberapay, we'd accrued enough unspent money over the years to be able to pay ourselves 1,000 EUR each, each month, for the months of February, March, April, and May 2026 (plus a little bit here and there from Liberapay). For transparency's sake, you can see those payouts here.

As you'll see from our OpenCollective budget, however, we don't make enough from donations to keep this up, and indeed at the time of writing we have only 2000 EUR left in our OpenCollective budget, which gives us ~3/4 of a month when accounting for ongoing hosting costs.

And so, we're asking you, dear sweet reader, sexy-ass cool reader, for a donation or two to our OpenCollective pot:

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial#category-CONTRIBUTE

With your help, we want to be able to raise about 2,500 EUR per month, so that we can continue to pay ourselves 1,000 EUR each per month, plus various other costs that are paid out of the OpenCollective.

Thank you for reading this absolute saga of a post, and for considering donating to us. We really appreciate it!

I've been on the fence about hosting my own #fediverse account for a while now, mainly because of the insane hardware requirements.

I've considered pleroma/akkoma for a while, but i don't know the first thing about elixir and their docs are not the most clear. I've been really tempted by #GoToSocial, but #snac's easy install & general simplicity made me take the plunge.