After browsing #littlefedi a little bit, I'm really intrigued to set my own instance up. Still have the old #GoToSocial instance, but since account move is still not (yet?) reversible on GtS, it's a bit dead. Won't be setting up yet another instance.

I've slipped to browsing way too much fediverse lately, and a single-user instance would likely be the perfect solution. Less content, less doomscrolling...

Meanwhile, waiting for the source of Littlefedi to be released.

I suppose I need an #introduction post, so my profile page isn't entirely blank.

Hello to the like 4 people who will ever read this, I setup my own #GoToSocial instance so I could interact with the fediverse, without being drowned in the torrential firehose of information that you get on one of the larger servers.

Might be too quiet though, oh well.

I used to have an account on radical.town (RIP). I'll mostly be using this one for liking and replying to posts, and occasional complaining and video game screenshots (As I have no life)

You can now migrate your Pixelfed account to Gotosocial!

The issue turned out to be missing http signature headers in a verification request.

#pixelfed #gotosocial #accountMigration

Idź na socjal

Idź na socjal - tak właśnie można przetłumaczyć GoToSocial, czyli nazwę serwera ActivityPu
https://zakr.es/blog/2026/08/idz-na-socjal/
#gotosocial #ipv6 #linux #mastodon

Is there a Fedi relay that allows you to ingest posts by language?

I know this would be a really bad idea for most major languages, but for super rare languages to see on Fedi this might be really useful to find likeminded folks.

#AskFedi #GoToSocial #Mastodon #Relay #FediRelay #FediRelays #Relays

RE: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/01a0448d-c9e8-7b7e-a225-b22fc0333f0f

Mastodon is great. But littleFedi, snac, GoToSocial, Mitra, Akkoma, etc. - they all share a mission: make sure people will be able to self host their instances without investing a huge sum.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #littleFedi #snac #GoToSocial #Mitra #Akkoma

Wczoraj miałem chwilę i stwierdziłem, że pobawię się w ramach #selfhosting we własną instancję #gotosocial.

Dokumentacja niezła, dla happy path, ale debug niedziałania usług w wersji #docker i #IPv6 only - masakra.

Widzę, że jest parę "dziwnych" decyzji projektowych (np. wymóg osobnej (sub)domeny, brak możliwości zmiany portu), ale zero zdziwienia.

Ostatecznie nie działa - konto jest, lokalnie publikuje, ale interakcja z zewn. instancjami nie zachodzi (frontend: polecany w doc Pinafore).

next #GoToSocial release (v0.23.0) will hopefully include:

1. better full-text search that actually works: @kim has been working on this using an extension for our WASM-ified SQLite
2. the ability to not merely connect to existing relays but to host multiple relay actors yourself, on your own instance, which other people can push to and follow

we're still deep in the code mines working on both of these things :)

Can't win with the Fediverse, can I?

If'n I disappear, its because bark.wolp is down again, again for 12+ hours with no news any where, while at the same time, @gofedi who hosts this blog has been sending me emails letting me know I'm running out of space here, but there's been no response here to my questions, so I guess this blog has a limited lifetime.

Really not sure what I'm going to do, I like the features of Friendica, though it lacks a few I'd like, but I really don't like the interface, nothing a good alternate front end wouldn't fix, but nothing like that exists. And hosted instances are basically non-existant, GoFedi is the replacement for my previous host, the only straightforward host I've found. #gotosocial isn't quite ready yet, it lacks some features that I expect, particularly the ability to provide a synopsis for links, plus like the rest of the Fediverse outside of #friendica , it lacks some features I want. I won't quit the Fediverse, but depending on what happens and when, I may disappear for an extended period until I have time to figure out what I want to do.

@vextaur try a different client to generate previews of URL links. I do that with #ivory and #Gotosocial.

Have a look at #GotoSocial, or #snac or even #LittleFedi - all perfectly hostable even from Raspberry Pis. And if you are only interested in hosting one to a handful accounts you won't miss anything from Mastodon. Although GotoSocial can also hosts 1000s of users (the other two mentioned, less so)

Dear friends,

Please gather around for a long post about #WSocial and how they are responding to critiques.

I have noticed a trend: W Social leaders and staunch supporters are describing any critical posts about the company as "targeted disinformation." Its CEO said they will soon have a technical solution in place for this. Oh?!?

🔗: https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mtqufy6g4s2r

I suppose the "targeted disinformation" claims are about recent posts by the likes of me and @pallenberg about troubling hate speech that is allowed on W Social.

Claims backed by hard evidence, in the form of screenshots and video captures. (I am increasingly doing screen recordings of problematic posts and interactions by W Social people because they have a tendency to delete evidence - like an infamous comment on a video by the Instutute for Remigration).

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Discrediting sources, renaming evidence as "disinformation" and creating a victim narrative has a long, storied history.

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But I'm digressing. I speak up about W Social because:

1. Mainstream media runs PR fluff about them;

2. Horrid hate speech on the platform is completely unmoderated.

W Social is currently showing the limits of free speech absolutism. Its CEO wrote: "We don’t need W to become another echo chamber."

Reminds you of something?

Atmosphere user @echna.bsky.social astutely remarked that "W Social is on an X speedrun, without ever having been like Twitter."

🔗: https://mu.social/profile/echna.bsky.social/post/3mtqlknzork2t

Bluesky, #Blacksky, and #Northsky have mechanisms in place to report hate speech - and I am super thankful for that.

As of today, I cannot report to W Social posts by their users that contain hate speech.

The W Social moderation list's only purpose is to make a distinction between verified users and bots.

Compare it with Blacksky's moderation list and be amazed (see screenshots).

What's the big deal about the lack of content moderation on #WSocial?

Well, I am haunted by some posts by their users.

A repeat offender (routinely posting racist and xenophobic posts) recently commented "Awesome news" to a newspaper article about a Palestinian family drowning in Sussex.

His profile is still up and he's followed by W Social's CEO and its co-founder Ingmar Renzhog (yes I have evidence of this, via a video capture - so even if they unfollow him or delete his account, well, I have proof of my claim).

I agree with "Echna" that W Social is on an X speedrun, allowing racist, transphobic and xenophobic posts. Evidence:

🔗: https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mth3hwhvzs26

Instead of addressing these critiques head-on - and moderating hate speech - the W Social co-founders are lamenting being subjected to a "targeted disinformation" campaign.

Oh ok?

IMHO free speech absolutism ultimately only coddles far right extremists and is a very dangerous thing.

Would you call this disinformation?

Special thanks to my #GoToSocial account for allowing this message all in one go, without having to break it up in a hundred-post thread.

TL;DR: W Social is taking a dark turn real fast.

#SocialMedia

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a screenshot showing W Social Moderation Services, with options about "verified person" "verified organisation" "verified bot" "verified service" and "test account"

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a screenshot of Blacksky's moderation service, with options to warn or hide synthetic media, violence, white supremacy or antiblack rhetoric, doxxing and non-consensual intimate imagery

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a screenshot of a W Social user who has been labeled with "white supremacy" "transphobia" "troll" and "network-wsocial-PDS"

I just adjusted my relay instance which now also finally supports #GoToSocial! Of course, it also supports Pleroma, snac, Mastodon, littlefedi, starling and many other ones!

With relays, your own posted content gets distributed to all connected instances, as well you get the content all other instances. Currently, mostly tech related instances are connected, focusing on #Linux, #Proxmox, #BSD / #FreeBSD, #IPv6 and many other things!

More information at: https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

#socialmedia #fedi #fediwall #fediverse #activitypub #activitypubrelay #relay #social #snac #snac2 #mastodon #gts #gotosocial #littlefedi #pleroma #misskey #services #devops #starling #tech

There is a person I've been helping for a while who runs two instances, one #GoToSocial and one #snac.

Yesterday, they suffered severe file system corruption on their device, and I lent them a hand with the recovery. For GoToSocial, they restored the DB from the previous backup and got it running again. For snac, although a few files were lost, no action was necessary... it just started back up and did what it had to do, bringing the instance back to full operation.

This goes to show that when software is well-designed and intentionally kept simple, it's also easier to get back up and running when something goes wrong. In this case, snac's "files-only" approach demonstrated excellent resilience.

Thanks, @grunfink !

#snac2 #snac #ThankYouTuesday #Efficiency #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData

@mookie @mattblaze @virtualbri I didn't think the protocol would notify blocks like that. Maybe #gotosocial should also tell me when I'm blocked, but I suppose it's best not to know 😂

@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'

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

#Snac2, #Mitra, #GoToSocial, #Bonfire

Just discovered the existence of the #snac #ActivityPub server. Looks very interesting, appealing to my #smolweb sensibilities very much, and seems even smoler than #GoToSocial, which I've been using very happily for a few years now. Could be time for me to try another flavour, as Adam Ant might say. And, I'm very very down with the acronym. Yep, Social Networks Are Crap.

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.