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GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse (github.com)

submitted 6 months ago by jorge@feddit.cl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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This service is still in Alpha release but is already deployable and usable, and federates with other Fediverse servers.

However, there is no "main" instance you go to join. The intention really is that you host your own instance for yourself and a few friends and family. To this end, it is designed to be very lightweight and will happily run on a Raspberry Pi or even a $5/pm VPS.

This is taking a very different approach from say Mastodon which has one main instance everyone could join, but then it sits with the issue that everyone joins there, and it becomes a bit "centralised". GoToSocial has been designed as lightweight for self-hosting, and also has a Docker image installation, so it makes it really easy for (and encourages) most people to host their own instance.

It seems to also be focussed very much around privacy (defaults to unlisted posts) and permission controls (for example, you have an option to post to mutual-only where both people follow each other). Also, by hosting your own service you set the rules, and you are also your own admin. You can choose to turn off likes, replies, boosts, etc as well. Being your own admin also means you can easily adjust the post length as well.

It does conform to the Mastodon API so apparently some Mastodon clients will also work fine with it.

See https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/

#technology #ActivityPub #GoToSocial

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[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 40 points 6 months ago

So far out of all the fediverse i have found lemmy fits me best. So many other things want to mimic the X interface and that promotes more following of individuals and whatever they post about rather than ideas. I do much better over here because you follow a general topic and the posts are about that thing or related things. And I find that I do better in comments than making original posts. Like, I am a very introverted person, so have trouble getting a conversation started. But when I see a conversation of interest, I can generally add something to it.

[+] aida@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

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[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 points 6 months ago

I would like to see lemmy be able to browse masto profiles though. Currently, if you load up a mastodon user's account, you will generally see no posts because they have no community attachment. My thought would be to make a default community called like null or something and pretend that all their posts from their profile are in that community so that you can at least see them. By doing something like that, I also would not have to go back to mastodon to look at announcements from services such as proton or monerujo.

[-] andrew_s@piefed.social 1 points 6 months ago

Mastodon also has a different outbox format (one that's paginated), so that's the other reason their posts don't show from Lemmy. Solving the problem of following users with fake communities has also been proposed (by me, and also here), but it's generally a bad idea - a hack that will come back to bite you. If Lemmy were changed to integrate Mastodon more, it'd ideally be a big project - one that would fully embrace the idiosyncrasies of Mastodon (like muting replies and denying Follow requests) because ignoring them would lead to trouble later on.

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 1 points 6 months ago

What I really want is something like hybrid of wordpress/lemmy/mastodon...

[-] thepaperpilot@incremental.social 2 points 6 months ago

Mbin?

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I would like less micro-blog and more old-school blog with the really good threading/comments of lemmy, and the communities of lemmy (maybe magazines of Kbin/Mbin)

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

I get mastadon stuff in searches

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

things want to mimic the X interface and that promotes more following of individuals and whatever they post about rather than ideas. I do much better over here because you follow a general topic and the posts are about that thing or related things

That's a really insightful comment. I bounce off Twitter/Mastodon, but really enjoy the Reddit/Lemmy interface. The focus on topics rather than people is probably why.

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 6 months ago

And that's exactly why I believe lemmy has the most potential to become the first fediverse project to become mainstream and challenge its big tech counterpart. The other ones face the entry barrier of a user not finding the influencers they want to follow, but this place has much fewer barriers to new users. For some, the experience is so smooth, that they won't ever touch reddit again.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

If they weren't all insane, twitter's format has value for following real time events. For sports, for example, following a personally curated selection of sports reporters makes it a lot easier to keep up with transactions across the leagues I care about.

Reddit's is better for discussion of those events, but not everything gets that far.

Facebook's is supposed to be for actual friends to keep up with what's going on in each other's lives. Obviously it's not actually talking, and you still want to do that, but it makes it easier to keep up with a larger group of people.

The problem with all of them is that they're owned and run by insane shitbags, so they're not worth the trade off. And the problem with fediverse alternatives is that they all rely on network effect to have their value. But in theory they each have a place, which is how they all managed to coexist despite the strong constraint of needing volume to serve a purpose. They serve different uses.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, the mastodon-style interface lends well to real-time events like sports, as you mentioned, or news. Because it's just a feed of what's going on.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Tried kbin yet?

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 6 months ago

No, i never did. I heard it has quite a bit of issues, but that mbin is attempting to fix them

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Getting regular people to host a service exposed to the Internet is going to go very smoothly I'm sure.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

The “Follow me” format is bad for the internet. It creates “me me me” fake celebrities and “influencers.”

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Somebody is going to have to run a public server unfortunately.

[-] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

For those wondering what's different with GoToSocial:

This project sprang up in February/March 2021 out of a dissatisfaction with the safety + privacy features of other Federated microblogging/social media applications, and a desire to implement something a little different.

this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2024

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