@gotosocial is a fun free open Fediverse platform mainly aimed at people who want to create their own Fediverse server.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@gotosocial is a fun free open Fediverse platform mainly aimed at people who want to create their own Fediverse server. It has some really nice features:

- Reply controls
- Long posts
- Rich text formatting
- Optional local-only post visibility
- Blocklists & allowlists

If you're not techy but want to make your own GTS server, there's a managed hosting service at https://fedihost.co/hosting/gotosocial

If you're techy and want to make your own GTS, manual docs are at https://docs.gotosocial.org

#Fediverse

[iamdannyboling@mstdn.social]

@FediTips @gotosocial

Thank you!

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

p.s. If you want to, you can transfer your account from a Mastodon server to a GoToSocial server. There's more info about doing this in a video by @fedihost at https://video.fedihost.co/w/i2AGvZc69gnscfNnDPdVrN

p.p.s. You can also import your Mastodon (and Pixelfed) posts to GoToSocial, using an experimental free open tool called Slurp. However, Slurp does require technical skills so you may need a techy friend to help with this. More info at https://codeberg.org/vyr/slurp and https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/importing_posts

[bonazaz@social.vivaldi.net]

@FediTips @fedihost

Many thanks indeed. Especially given Fediverse does look like the Teutoburg Forest sometimes due to its 'many-ness'.

[fbinin@mastodon.fbin.in]

@FediTips @fedihost
I wanna transfer. Just need to take time out.
Also, cannot have loss of data, followers or anything, so need to be sure it is all good to go.
BTW, afaik G2S is lightweight given Mastodon eats up a lot even after regular housekeeping.

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

Have you found a directory of public instances anywhere? Or at least instances one can join? I remember sharing such a resource some months ago but I lost it now @FediTips @fedihost

[laescude@mastodon.cr]

@WeirdWriter @FediTips @fedihost Maybe Fedigarden? https://fedi.garden/

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@WeirdWriter

It's a really good question, I tried asking a week or two ago and no one could suggest any general public instances as they assumed GTS was only for self-hosting people.

As far as I know GTS can be run as a public instance too, but for whatever reason there don't seem to be any well-known general public instances so far?

[elsa@ap.elsa.pet]

@FediTips @WeirdWriter gts is not exactly user-friendly (no web UI, requires choosing a client and not always mastodon behaviour, federation of posts is not as liberal as mastodon for discovery) and the moderation tools are on the thin side (no way to block a remote user in a reversible way)

also the gts userbase is not exactly the kind to run public servers

i mean i run gts and i used to have friends on it because we can communicate re: the software and moderation in a close fashion, but i wouldnt feel comfortable running it for others

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@yuman @fedihost

I'm not sure... I wonder if @dumpsterqueer might know?