gotosocial

I recently switched my #gotosocial storage to local from #aws and maybe a coincidence, but I'm getting "Unprocessable Entity: error processing media" errors now when trying to post images.

Anybody know why this would be?

#troubleshooting

in #gotosocial

steal emoji

go to your /admin page (as Admin)
Administration > Custom Emoji > Remote
paste this URL in the search box:

https://social.growyourown.services/@homegrown/114930510300269025

tick box next to and press «Copy to local emoji» button

that's it

gotosocial.social now federates with over 10K instances, according to the statistics in the homepage!

#go2socialchangelog #gotosocial

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 76 ✨

Monday morning, which means: backing up my #YunoHost setup.

I see that #GoToSocial has an update available but I'm too scared to upgrade it. Having my 4th cup of espresso and working up the courage to do it (I hear it takes a looong time). Hoping I don't break anything 😅​

In other news, I am LOVING my #LinkStack and having a glimpse into the links that are the most popular (LinkStack offers you a ranking in reverse order of the most clicked links when you log into their dashboard). Is anyone interested in me writing about it? For reference, here is what the front end looks like: https://elena.social

Off I go update my #GoToSocial, wish me luck!

#MySoCalledSudoLife #FOSS

Hey everyone, today we ran into a bit of an issue while updating gotosocial.social, which resulted in the site being down for the past 6 hours. The problem has been resolved now, and no data was lost or damaged. Still, sorry for disrupting your Fediverse browsing experience 🙂

A quick reminder for other #GoToSocial admins using snapshot builds: if you're using PostgreSQL, please consider not updating to d8113c1 for now as the db migration is likely incompatible with PostgreSQL. Keep an eye on Issue #3880 for updates on the fix.

#go2socialchangelog

trying to do some cheeky small PRs today for #GoToSocial bugfixes and low-hanging thingies, to decompress after hyperfocusing this week

here's a wee little tweak to the front end to show a visibility icon, and underline the date to make clear it's clickable

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pull/3908

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

#GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls

https://blog.elenarossini.com/gotosocial-empowers-you-to-have-your-own-home-on-the-fediverse-with-unique-controls/

mentioning @shollyethan @ilja @gotosocial @gytisrepecka @Tusky @pinafore @phanpy @MonaApp @elk

and my GtS instance @elena

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #YunoHost #blog #TechEmpowerment #TechResistance

At $5 per month for a fully hosted and serviced GoToSocial instance (single user), they are making it tough for me to reason out why I host my own in a home lab.

(Other than I liked learning how to set it up)

When I move fully to GtS definitely going this route.

https://fedihost.co/hosting/gotosocial

#GoToSocial

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 198 (summer project edition) 🏖️​

Hello Fedi friends,

I hope you've been having a nice week so far.

I've been in childcare mode, thus the silence. I've been thinking about something and I would love to get your advice.

#AskFedi: is there a way to export one's #GoToSocial archive of posts (but not replies to other users)? Like something with command lines that doesn't require tedious copy and paste operations?

I wanted to gather up all the posts about the first 6 months of my self-hosting journey, to neatly organize them on my website (either in multiple blog posts or pages) so that they could be more easily searchable. It's not really ideal to go on an infinite scroll quest in reverse chronological order to see the evolution of my self-hosting journey.

Like, I'm curious to see what I was up to in January but going back in time loading old posts takes forever. And I cannot really search for keywords.

I'd like to keep things organized and easily searchable. And implement a POSSE system going forward... publishing on my site first and then syndicating elsewhere.

It's my summer of POSSE inspired by @molly0xfff 🤗
https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/

If you have any ideas about how I can easily export all my #GtS posts, I'm all ears.

If not, I suppose I will start copying and pasting everything and do monthly installments of my self-hosting journey (aka "month 1" etc.). After all I have 1125 posts (sigh).

Anyways, I hope this finds you well and that you're keeping cool in this scorching heat (especially fellow Europeans).

have a lovely morning/afternoon/evening wherever you are ❤️​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Good morning Fedi friends!

It's been 99 days since I started self-hosting my own Fediverse instances. Crazy how time flies!

I've been a bit absent from here this week because I started exploring the world of #PeerTube from the POV of a creator.

I just set up my own account on #MakerTube - so that I can write a guide that is accessible to many (as opposed to skipping this step and going straight to self-hosting).

Anyway, here is my PeerTube account: https://makertube.net/a/elena/video-channels

I have been able to follow it from #Mastodon and #Friendica without a problem, but I keep getting an error message when I try to subscribe with my #GoToSocial username. The exact message: "Cannot fetch information from this remote account." Does anybody have the same issue? (as in: people on GoToSocial, can you subscribe to PeerTube channels?)

Wishing you all a lovely day 🌞​

P.S.: about to go offline for the rest of the day because... there's no pre-school in France on Wednesdays and the garderie keeps my little one up until 12:30. So apologies in advance if I'm slow to reply to messages.

#MySoCalledSudoLife

here nerds, made one of those little badge thingies for you

#GoToSocial

CC BY-SA 4.0

#Fedicat will list the account rss feed in #GotoSocial profiles when it’s available

Huh, looks like #GoToSocial is a nice alternative to Mastodon, and sits somewhere in between Mastodon and #Snac2 in terms of resource usage. I feel like I should try it. Do I have enough time? No. But still I want to try it. Even has official FreeBSD support. Has anyone migrated from #Snac to GTS?

#TooManyHobbiesTooLittleTime

adding an instances blocked (by instance) list, supported by #Mastodon and #GotoSocial

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 111 (quiet edition) 💤

Good morning Fedi friends!

I hope you had a nice weekend.

After backing up my two VPSs I am now staring at my #YunoHost dashboard thinking: now what?

It feels a little odd not to have to tackle any pressing self-hosting issues. Everything seems to be working well, including my manual installation of Ghost on a second (Ubuntu) VPS.

I'm now in maintenance mode.

I must confess in the past 24 hours I have spent some time browsing @yunohost 's app catalogue. So many fascinating things in there! But I am exercising restraint (for now, LOL!)

I'm very grateful for all the software I'm currently self-hosting.

On Debian (via YunoHost):

#Fail2Ban
#Friendica -> https://elenarossini.fr/profile/ele/
#GoToSocial (this account!)
#LinkStack -> https://elena.social
#Pixelfed -> https://photos.elenarossini.com/ele

On Ubuntu:

Fail2Ban
My #Ghost blog/newsletter -> https://news.elenarossini.com
#Varnish cache

I'm highly aware of my privilege and how lucky I am to be doing all this. But can I confess I'm a little bored? Thankfully I may have another big project on the horizon: upgrading my VPS and installing / self-hosting #PeerTube. But that will be for another week. Resting now and enjoying this sense of empowerment / digital sovereignty. Very grateful to be in this position.

Wishing you all a fantastic week!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Some questions for all the #GoToSocial users out there.

How many gigabytes of disk space (roughly) does your instance use?

How long has it been online?

And does the growth in storage slow down after the first seven days (on the default configuration), when cached images start clearing out?

#FediHelp #SelfHost #SelfHosted #Fediverse

I'm now running the Phanpy web client with the #GoToSocial instance that I belong to. Might take a bit of time getting used to it but I do really like it. If you run your own GtS instance or belong to one, which client are you using? I would really like to try a few others. Thanks!

Very nice to have options.

Posting this again, because my server-federation broke:

I couldn't make a GoToSocial plush, so I made GoToSocial earrings instead.
Follow my making process in my latest blog post: https://ccw.icu/blog/making-custom-earrings/

#blog #writingmonth #gotosocial #earrings #diy

Fixed my fedi_slurp scripts & documentation to work with #GotoSocial in addition to #snac (in theory it should work with plain old mastodon but I never tested)
https://code.lema.org/santiago/fedi_slurp

This goes through your fediverse bookmarks and adds them to your readeck instance or youtube watch list automatically. New release handles having several fediverse accounts (but only saved to one readeck instance / youtube watchlist).

Ω🪬Ω
#FediAlgo v1.1.19 is deployed. Minor bugfixes and improvements to the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed.

* Link: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action (slightly out of date): https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522

#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #GoToSocial #hashtag #hashtags #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #MastodonApi #mastohelp #mastojs #nodejs #nod #opensource #socialmedia #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #typescript #webdev

pillbug is a cohost-inspired client for GoToSocial and other Mastodon API-compatible ActivityPub servers. https://pillbug.vivl.im/about #GoToSocial #Fediverse #ActivityPub

we've been expanding some of our existing grafana graphs of #GoToSocial metrics, including the newest metric names, so we can include an importable grafana graph json in the new release, to help people quickly have an overview of what their instance performance looks like

Lads lads lads lads!

Here's the first release candidate for v0.20.0 of #GoToSocial! If you're feeling bold, you can try this release candidate and help us find any lingering bugs before we release v0.20.0 proper!

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.20.0-rc1

Please read the migration notes carefully for instructions on how to upgrade to this version.

The migrations in this release are quite long (can take several hours, even!), as we had to rethread the entire statuses table to handle the new way we cache status threads (and to improve timeline performance). Please plan downtime accordingly, and most importantly hang in there and don't be tempted to interrupt the migration process!

Please also pay particular attention to the metrics changes, as we've significantly changed the way that metrics exposure is configured, so you will likely have to adjust your setup if you use GtS Prometheus metrics. For more information on the new way of doing things, look through this document: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/advanced/metrics/

Release highlights

Big refactor of timeline code to use less memory and be (hopefully!) more responsive and less error prone.
Support for scheduled statuses!
Support for the focal point property on the frontend + over federation, so you can set focal point on your media and have it work properly!
Notifications when a status you've interacted with has been edited.
ListenBrainz widget on the frontend, so you can show off the music you've been listening to (https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#profile-fields)
Instance info panel in the settings, so that non-admins on the instance can see which domains are blocked and explicitly allowed, and the reason why.
Bunch of new themes for profile views!
Config option to expose emoji endpoints without authentication -- useful for compatibility with some clients. Default value still requires authentication.
Footnotes in markdown!
Configurable thumbnail dimensions.
Federation of avatar + header image descriptions is handled now, both in + out of GtS.
The new hidesToPublicFromUnauthedWeb and hidesCcPublicFromUnauthedWeb are federated in and out now, allowing your instance and other instances that support these properties to transmit + respect preferences for the visibility of posts to render on the unauthenticated (public) web view of threads.
Support for avif file format.
JSON logging format, for easier log ingestion.
Atom and JSON feed support for RSS (not just xml).
Reworked metrics format, more + better metrics, and an importable example grafana dashboard.
Domain permission subscription retractions are now handled properly.
Probably a lot more! See below!

Thanks for reading!

Ω🪬Ω
#FediAlgo (the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed) v1.2.2 is deployed now. Has a switch that makes sure any #hashtags / users / etc. that you follow are displayed as filter options even if they don't meet the minimum number of recent toots threshold.

Also a bunch of bug fixes and small improvements.

* Try it here: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action (slightly outdated): https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522

#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #GoToSocial #hashtag #hashtags #javascript #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #MastodonApi #mastohelp #mastojs #node #nodejs #opensource #socialmedia #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #typescript #webdev

Pytanie do osób korzystających z GtS - #GoToSocial:

Czy gts nie generuje link-previews, nie odpytuje zdalnych hostów (jak np. mastodon), bo tak ma, czy cos trzeba dodatkowo ustawić?

Link-previews to np. player wideo albo ładny obrazek z tytułem do artykułu.

cc @stfn