#TIL If your #GoToSocial fails to load avatars and the like it might happen that you need to add the respective file storage domain to your domain allowlist.
Gonna write a document about #GoToSocial memory usage and tuning in the coming weeks, now we're getting a better handle on how everything performs. Lots of folks ask us about it so it'd be good to have it written down properly.
Now that #GoToSocial 0.13.0 is out, we are preparing to take a break :)
If you've been following us for a while, you'll know that every year over the holidays we like to make our github repository and matrix channels read only for a while. This lets us step back from support work for a few weeks, and focus on things other than GoToSocial (seeing friends and family, playing video games, reading, cuddling our pets), in order to recharge our mental and emotional batteries and come into the new year feeling fresh and excited again.
This year, we'll take our holiday from (and including) the 19th of December, up to (and including) the 2nd of January. During this time:
the three GtS matrix channels will be read only
the github repo will be read only for non-members of the org (though you may still see us pushing commits and whatnot)
we will be less active on this account
So, if you spot any issues with v0.13.0, please file them before the 19th, or save them until after the 2nd.
As usual, please read the migration notes carefully when upgrading to this version.
Thanks! Enjoy!
Highlights of this release:
Create, view, and vote in polls. It's been a while in the making but GoToSocial now has support for polls, aka Question activity types. You can create, view, and vote in polls using your client of choice.
Show unsupported media placeholders in incoming posts, where media could not be downloaded (temporarily or otherwise). No more dropped media on posts! You'll instead now get a link to the media on the originating instance, that you can click through in your (mobile) browser.
Mute threads that you're being overwhelmed by. Notifications for replies, likes, and boosts in that thread will no longer be generated.
Media cleanup scheduling. Previously media scheduling took place every night at 12am. With the new media scheduling settings in the config, you can customize the schedule to run it at different times and frequencies. https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/media_caching/#cleanup
Support for language tags on posts. Language of posts is now correctly federated in and out of your instance. The language of posts is also shown on the web view of statuses and threads.
Gather and expose prometheus format metrics. You can now expose a /metrics endpoint to allow a Prometheus instance to scrape metrics about Go runtime memory usage, http request and database metrics, and more. https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/advanced/metrics/
First, Threads is expanding to more countries across Europe, so people there can follow and join the conversations they care about. We’re starting to roll out in more countries now on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store; www.threads.net is live everywhere now.
@mosseri Hello! I'm able to follow you on #threads from a Mastodon instance, but not from a #GoToSocial instance. Relevant error from my GTS logs:
Get: error searching by namestring: accountsByUsernameDomain: error looking up @mosseri as account: enrichAccount: error resolving accountable from data for account https://www.threads.net/ap/users/mosseri/: ResolveAccountable: error unmarshalling bytes into json: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value\n
Note that on SQLite, when you start up your instance an analyze will run when you switch to this version. The analyze might take a good few minutes to run, depending on how large your SQLite database is, and how performant your system is. Please be patient and don't interrupt it, it's optimizing your database :)
As usual, if you find any bugs specific to this release candidate, please open them on our issue tracker.
Thanks for reading, and enjoy the release candidate!
What’s the difference between #Mastodon and #Firefish? They both seem to be microblogging platforms in the fediverse. Are they able to talk to each other? I’m a bit ignorant on this atm.
They all have their specificity but they can all communicate (via Activitypub). For example, Misskey and its forks (Firefish and Iceshrimp) can make emoji reaction on posts or even use animations in posts like this. For Mastodon users won’t see them but that doesn’t impact on the communication.
In brief, they are all microblogging services with their own characteristics and UI :akko_thumbup:
does anyone know of any good fedi front end clients that are tailored towards long form blog posts? i want to turn todiy into a multi media platform, and not just microblogging, but i don't wanna have to run a separate server/subdomain for every format! I think i like the idea of using #GoToSocial as a backend because it seems pretty flexible! i dont want my users to need a bazillion accounts lol. Im looking at #writefreely , and it would be awesome to use its front end somehow. #fediadmin
El servidor #Activitypub que estic programant ja té operatives les funcionalitats bàsiques:
webfinger ✅
nodeinfo ✅
activitat "Follow" (seguir usuari) ✅
activitat "Undo" (deixar de seguir) ✅
signar activitats "Accept" ✅
La app oficial ja troba el servidor i ja mostra el missatge "Mastodon vol utilitzar aquest servidor per a iniciar sessió" (encara no he afegit l'algorisme d'inici de sessió 😅)
Quan ja funcioni l'inici de sessió faré els algorismes de les línies de temps. #appy
I can finally respond to polls here again. After migrating to GoToSocial I had lost that possibility, but with the new release candidate that changes. This is another significant improvement. I really enjoy my self-hosted GoToSocial instance. :blobcatsip:
As always, please read the migration notes carefully when updating. If you find any bugs in the release candidate, kindly let us know on Github!
Release highlights below the line.
Create, view, and vote in polls. It's been a while in the making but GoToSocial now has support for polls, aka Question activity types. You can create, view, and vote in polls using your client of choice.
Show unsupported media placeholders in incoming posts, where media could not be downloaded (temporarily or otherwise). No more dropped media on posts! You'll instead now get a link to the media on the originating instance, that you can click through in your (mobile) browser.
Mute threads that you're being overwhelmed by. Notifications for replies, likes, and boosts in that thread will no longer be generated.
Media cleanup scheduling. Previously media scheduling took place every night at 12am. With the new media scheduling settings in the config, you can customize the schedule to run it at different times and frequencies. https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/media_caching/#cleanup
Support for language tags on posts. Language of posts is now correctly federated in and out of your instance. The language of posts is also shown on the web view of statuses and threads.
Gather and expose prometheus format metrics. You can now expose a /metrics endpoint to allow a Prometheus instance to scrape metrics about Go runtime memory usage, http request and database metrics, and more. https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/advanced/metrics/
we're trying to narrow down a (bizarre, kind of funny) #GoToSocial bug where a boosted status can appear in timelines to be authored by the person who boosted it -- so essentially boosting a status can sometimes "steal" that status
it's a bugger to reproduce, so if you see it, and you have any useful info to share about it (either in logs, or in the Network tab of your browser when looking at the status in a client) please do share
#GoToSocial 0.13.0 Spider Sloth is coming along well. We've got a few little bugs to fix before making a first release candidate, and then we can let our little spidery child out into the world. It's quite an exciting release, so we'd like to get as many nuts and bolts tightened as possible so that it goes smoothly.
In particular, we've found a cheeky little bug in our png decoding, which sometimes causes pngs to fail to be downloaded from remote instances. We'll spend a bit more time poking and prodding this one, because it actually gets around the media placeholder logic we added.
The alpha version of @gotosocial now has support for allowlists.
Allowlists automatically prevent federation with all other servers, except those that the admin has added to their allowlist. (Traditional blocklists work the other way round, allowing all federation unless a server is blocked.)
Allowlists bring more safety but also reduce reach, and that's why it's up to each admin to decide whether to use them.