I tried friendica for a bit, but never really "got" it.
That's the beauty of the #fediverse, we can try all kinds of different interfaces and styles and still interact on the same basic playing field.
I miss #Mastodon's interface a little bit, but #GtS has some killer features like #Markdown support.
(And yes, I'm familiar with the masto-fe. It's nice, but not 100% the same. Most of the time, I'm just rocking @orbitalmartian's #enafore instance/soft-fork or @tut)
Wanted to try out GoToSocial. Can't even deploy it using Docker because of: error creating instance account: sqlite3: SQL logic error: table accounts has no column named memorialized_at
I'm really not in the mood to troubleshoot it or fix the bug 
Just a #FYI for those on #GoToSocial it seems like my #GTS fails to send messages out after a while. I can seem then show in my profile as if they did, but they don't send out through the #fediverse . I haven't been able to pinpoint the issue, but busy juggling too many things. If you set a stop and start nightly on GTS it seems to be ok and goes fine. @gotosocial
It seems pl-fe (the web front end) uses all my #Gotosocial superpowers out of the box and even I can make favorite, repost and reply restrictions per post, rather than the usual general restrictions. I have never tested most of the stuff, but I guess they work. Generally, I recommend this web front end.
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
my adventures in #selfhosting - day 175 (video launch day) 
Dear Fedi friends, you may have noticed that 20 minutes ago I made the announcement about the release of my Fediverse promo video on here. Why? 5000 character limit, so I could credit/thank everyone who helped. It really took a village to make it.
Today is not only the video's release day, but also, from the POV of a new self-hoster:
- a stress test for my self-hosted #PeerTube instance (worry level: low, they have P2P)
- a stress test for my self-hosted Ghost blog (it should hold up just fine with Varnish cache)
- and a test to see how far and wide a message posted on my #GoToSocial goes. If you're a fan of #GtS you may be pleased to see it mentioned in the video
I was afraid of the infamous Mastodon Hug of Death (with hundreds / thousands of servers trying to fetch the video cover image) so I ended up uploading it as UNLISTED on my PeerTube and embedding it on my Ghost blog... this way Ghost (protected by Varnish cache) will take most of the hit. I also provided an alternative video location for it.
Curious to see how all these self-hosted services will do today.
Have a great day everyone!
#MySoCalledSudoLife
I'm on https://polymaths.social, a smallish #GtS instance (large by #GoToSocial standards). We have open signups and a pretty good #CoC.
I found this list of #GlitchSocial servers online.
A dream. But mostly just vaporware. 
P.S. It's an idea that some of us #polymaths had to create a new fediverse client (particularly for #GtS) for the terminal, likely in Go/#Issue9.
@dusnm gave us the inspiration to write it in Go, then quietly left before anyone assigned him any real work. >:)
(Just kidding, we all sat around, threw around some cool ideas, and then promptly did next to nothing. I think @sunarch did all the real organizational work; good on him)
@amin @tripplehelix @alatartheblue @sotolf @fbievan @dmoonfire @gorkmo @kudzu @roguefoam @thedoctor @dm @jlw_the_jobber @adamsdesk @orbitalmartian @clayton @joel @krafter @btp
I am wholeheartedly against consuming media storage.
#LossyPNG and #WebP all the things. No animated GIF or video. Use words ya hosers. ;)
(WebP only until #GtS decides to support #AVIF, which it seriously needs to do)
https://www.europesays.com/2091717/ OGTSU working on connecting Central and Southern European gas markets #Economy #EconomyOfEU #EconomyOfEurope #EconomyOfEuropeanUnion #EconomyOfTheEU #EconomyOfTheEuropeanUnion #EUEconomy #Europe #EuropeMarkets #EuropeanMarkets #gts #markets #plans #ugs
@twiglet @tchambers #GoToSocial admins were given the option to opt out of reporting stats to crawler services. Shame really, as it distorts how popular #GTS is.
Thank you to folks that answered my #GTS poll. Seems like a LOT of folks don't know what GTS is! GTS or #GoToSocial is a #GO written #activityPub #server for small groups of folks that's super lightweight, fast and easy to install. You can find them on #Fediverse at @gotosocial .
Just FYI, nsxiv, imv, and swayimg all support AVIF as well, although imv did oddly have a glitch with one of the images I tested it with. I'd never seen that happen before.
According to some people I've spoken with, JPEG is still king for high-fidelity images and minimizing loss upon re-compression, but AVIF just totally whips the llama's posterior when it comes to relatively high fidelity at crazy low file sizes (high compression).
AVIF is often noticeably better quality than #WebP at the same (low) file size and resolution, and parsecs beyond what JPEG can do with high compression factors.
If only the fediverse supported it!!! :(
We barely have WebP support (mostly on #GtS, maybe #snac (haven't tried it)), not on #Mastodon.
migrate things: „My Mastodon instance is closing down in April, so I had to move to a new instance. And picking instances is hard, so why not run my own?“ https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2025-03/12-mastodon_to_gotosocial_migration /via @splitbrain
