Does anyone here have experience with GoToSocial's whitelist function and the maximum number of users per instance? Is it a possible alternative to Mastodon, especially in terms of moderation?

#GoToSocial #AskFedi @gotosocial

Anyone else using #gotosocial have an issue where most images aren't being downloaded, with a server message similar to this:

"Note from electragicians.space: 1 attachment in this status was not downloaded. Treat the following external link with care:"

I'm wondering if this is normal for GTS, and also if it's possible to turn that behavior off.

Thanks!

Got 2FA working nicely on the backend and in the settings panel :)

(this is not an April fools; I mean I am a fool and it's april but it's a legit video)

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

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 104 (pride edition)

Good morning Fedi friends!

Aw pride is a powerful thing.

I'd like to think that I'm pretty zen and detached and successfully suppressing my ego... but when it comes to things I'm passionate about (read: tech, self-hosting) I cannot let things go.

I had a very very sweet shout-out on a Fediverse podcast last week... but said shout-out mentioned my self-hosting issues and that maybe self-hosting isn't for everyone. I felt that I had to correct the record (even if the mention came with the nicest intention)... because I have ZERO issues self-hosting #GoToSocial, #Friendica and #Pixelfed (thanks to the magic of #YunoHost). All my troubles had to do with #Ghost. (And Ghost is wonderful, it's not related to it, just external circumstances).

So, determined to defend my honor (ha!) on Friday I achieved the impossible: all by myself, following guides I found online, I managed to install #Apache and #Varnish on my VPS and connected Varnish to Ghost. My site was already fast, now it's BLAZING fast.

So I'm giving it another go, moving from Ghost (Pro) to my self-hosted Ghost installation. I turned off subscriptions on https://blog.elenarossini.com... next step is disconnecting the subdomain DNS (a CNAME record) from Ghost... and redirecting traffic to my new blog (https://news.elenarossini.com).

I know how to code things in NGINX for the redirect to work (I think, via guides I found online).

My big question is: how do I tweak my old DNS records for https://blog.elenarossini.com so that NGINX on my self-hosted site https://news.elenarossini.com will correctly pick up the traffic requests? Do I need to set up A and AAAA records for the subdomain blog to point to my VPS with the self-hosted Ghost blog? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! ​

Oh and I learned my lesson and - unlike last time - I am making big changes on a Monday morning, when I have the whole workweek ahead of me (instead of a Friday afternoon 1 hour before picking up my child from nursery school). You live and learn! ​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Folks who have a single-person #GoToSocial instance: what's your setup/hosting situation?

I want to try it out but am waffling about whether to go with managed hosting, or a VPS, or what. I may honestly start off by self-hosting with #Yunohost on my old netbook simply because it's the easiest and cheapest.

#AskFedi

#Fedilab 3.31.1 has been published.

Added:
- Add MinT machine translation system support
- Add support "instance only" for #GoToSocial

Fixed:
- GIF not displayed in timelines
- Fix a crash when unpinning timelines
- Top bar coloring at scroll for conversations
- Black screen when going back from the #Peertube section

https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab/releases/tag/3.31.1

I have not though about #GoToSocial much recently or been very active in the dev community. Mostly because it just works and almost all of the features I was missing are present now. I just don't really think about it. Cheer for the dev team

Just got 2FA working nicely on the back end, API, and login flow :) Time to add it to the settings panel now.

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

Creating A GoToSocial Instance on FediHost

https://video.fedihost.co/w/4wmHZT6YhrvoHeuBqTLYWd

Anyone with a GoToSocial instance know how to upload multiple custom emojis at once?

I was thinking to add the Neocat emojis but there’s too many and doing it manually one by one is horrible :(

#GoToSocial

Anyone using #litestream for an #sqlite DB

I have a 3GB database, and Litestream is replicating it to another server. However, it seems to be running out of control with disk space. On the original server (where the live DB is) is a generations folder under the hidden litestream folder. It is full of WAL files. Currently over 37,000 files consuming 118GB of disk space.

My config includes retention: 24h and retention-check-interval: 1h with a snapshot-interval: 4h. I understood it would delete anything older than 24 hours. Am I doing something wrong? These wal files go back to the day I started using litestream

I was unhappy with RSS readers, so I used the power I have over my #GoToSocial instance and created a bot account, which gets the RSS feeds I want through https://mastofeed.org/.

It already has 17 followers after five hours of existence

Shows only Czech cybersecurity related feeds to keep it focused, but I think I may create another one or two accounts to have English feeds I'm interested in for different topics also - maybe even to get RSS feeds of some BlueSky artists who have them public so I don't need to go there.

Definitivamente ter uma instância própria, mesmo que para uma única conta, fica MUITO simples administrar com GoToSocial.

E preciso dizer que o @augustocc foi uma das primeiras pessoas que eu segui e, através dele, fui conhecendo outras contas, outras instâncias e em muito pouco tempo meu #gotosocial já estava federando com muitas outras instâncias, me permitindo chegar a novos perfis legais.

Quero deixar aqui um agradecimento público ao @augustocc que me recebeu super bem no Fediverso e hoje tenho uma turminha aqui muito saudável, acolhedora e inspiradora

Welcome to last week’s “Destroying Autocracy”

https://friendica.me/display/78ea265d-1067-d9c8-d46f-543798792874

alright i think i'm done dicking about with the gallery view thingy for now, it's looking pretty good

if you wanna preview it live i'm running it on my personal profile: https://goblin.technology/@tobi

try it on different screen sizes and stuff, it looks good :)

and here's a video preview too

proud of this!