https://wisc.rocks has existed for a month now and I still haven't figured out how to create a non-admin account in #GotoSocial. I might be shutting it down, today. 😒
I appreciate how responsive and minimalist #gotoSocial is.
I didn't expect I would miss the edit button so much. my adhd is of a type that works very poorly with "proofread before you post". all the things that are obviously bad and need rephrasing hide from me, and come out in neon colours to taunt me five seconts after I click "toot".
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@Rainer I’m on the same boat - I asked on fedi several days before for Mastodon-client-compatible lightweight implementations, and got directed to #GoToSocial and #Akkoma. They’re on my list of services to selfhost now.
Normally, tag on Activitypub object actually returns an array, even it is empty. But for this one from #gotosocial is literally a rule breaker. Instead of returning array, it returns another object instead, which is not expected.
I wanted to use mastodon as an RSS reader. It seemed like a nice weekend project, and I started trying to modify #gotosocial which seemed like a relatively easier activitypub implementation to modify. And then I came across https://mastofeeder.com/ by @jehna. It is so simple and an excellent reference for the #activitypub protocol. Very simple and easy to understand (even for someone like me who does not understand typescript). Thank you!
@beaveinflow they do realize that the moment Meta decides to finally implement #ActivityPub support & openly federate, everyone in the #Threads app joins the #fediverse right?
Assuming Meta doesn't screw with their implementation, #Mastodon, #Akkoma, #Calckey, #Gotosocial and etc. users can freely communicate with users on Threads.
Not sure why the hate, I guess people love to defend Zuck & co.?
Here's a strange question, maybe for my @admin -- setting aside the need to upgrade to #mastodon 4.1.4 -- I've been looking at #gotosocial and I'm unable to search anyone on any instance. However, from another #mastodon instance (happens to be 4.1.4) I AM able to search & follow accounts on #gotosocial instances.
So I guess the question is, is kolektiva.social blocking gotosocial instances, or are they all blocking kolektiva.social, or is mastodon 4.1.3 not compatible, or ... why would this behavior arise?
Are there any apps that use the #MastodonAPI that let you look at a list of your follows and add them to specific #lists as you go down the line, without opening each profile one at a time?
I'm trying to set up lists on my #GoToSocial instance now that it supports them, but I'm already following enough people over there that it's going to be a pain to either open all the profiles one by one or keep another window open so I can search for them one by one.
I am working on spinning up a #GoToSocial (https://gotosocial.org/) instance that I am calling "Wisconsin Rocks" (I knew that my next instance had to be Wisconsin-themed). It works interchangably with #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #Kbin, etc.
I have room for 10 users at the moment. Want to try it out? Give me a holler.
I find it ironic that all those people who'd make jokes about Mastodon, and how heavy it is compared to fedi alternatives, would go on to use one of them, only to run into performance issues when they reached a certain scale.
Yeah Mastodon uses a lot more ram than pleroma, but that's because of redis.
Mastodon never stored raw AP objects, and never subjected admins to hours long migrations due to bad schema planning.
I'd like to see another project scale like Mastodon or Pixelfed does 😉
Mastodon performs well for large (and huge) communities. But it performs terrible for single person setups. E.g. #gotosocial is the reverse. It performs very well for a tiny community, but far worse for a (ten) thousand user instance.
I'm still convinced the fediverse should push for many small instances.
I still prefer Mastodon to every other supposed twitter alternative. I do find the Bluesky interface easy to use since it is like old Twitter but Mastodon is just better in every other way. Community and no limits and functionality.
So, I estimate that running my server from my home connection would cost me about 30€ per month in power consumption, my existing server is 31,33€ per month. Hm, not sure if it's worth the lower upload-bandwidth.
@piolaq It's nothing special. It's a bare metal machine (because I hate VMs) with 8 cores, 16 GB RAM and 4 TB storage. It's running 5 websites of me and my friends and a bunch of services I use daily:
GoToSocial provides a lightweight, customizable, and safety-focused entryway into the #fediverse, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles.
Consider #GoToSocial instead of Pixelfed if you'd like a safety-focused alternative with text-only post support that is maintained by a stellar developer community!
I've spun up my own #GoToSocial instance as a way to teach myself #docker and server administration, but also to finally have a forever home in the federated universe.
Won't 'toot' much, but when I do, I'm probably rambling on about something related to #cars, #technology, #music, or just life in general.
@evan i personally think it should be down to the community to provide such things. Mastodon isn’t that difficult to deploy if you know your way around servers, there are managed services available already for those without the technical knowledge or want to manage such things and then projects like #GoToSocial have made deploying AcitivityPub servers very nearly plug and play easy.
Mastodon is hard to self-host, which leads to too few instances with open registrations. Gargron's solution is to redirect everyone on his one million users server.
At the moment the 419 instances having signed the #FediPact have 387,191 users, i.e. 4% of the total number of users and 27% of the number of monthly active users (MAU) (I give both numbers because we can expect these users to be more committed to the fediverse, so more active, than lingering mastodon.social accounts)