if you're spinning up a new GoToSocial instance for yourself, don't forget you can use the domain permission subscription thingy to subscribe your instance to blocklists of well-known arsehole instances, so you can create domain block (drafts) automatically and nip a lot of potential harassment vectors in the bud

some basic lists that are worth considering:

• seirdy's fedinuke list:
  Explanation: https://seirdy.one/posts/2023/05/02/fediverse-blocklists
  URI (text/plain): https://seirdy.one/pb/FediNuke.txt
• oliphant's unified tier 0 blocklist:
  Explanation: https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/branch/main/blocklists
  URI (text/csv): https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/raw/branch/main/blocklists/mastodon/_unified_tier0_blocklist.csv
• thebadspace 80% heat list:
  Explanation: https://tweaking.thebad.space/about,
  https://tweaking.thebad.space/exports
  URI (text/csv): https://tweaking.thebad.space/exports/mastodon/80

tip: rather than creating a subscription that creates blocks immediately, it's a good idea to set it to create drafts, and then manually review and approve/reject each draft, otherwise you might end up blocking folks you actually would prefer to federate with

@dumpsterqueer I wrote about my experience first standing up my single-user masto instance here https://shellsharks.com/own-my-social. But all of those same things apply (and more!) to this GtS instance (I also wrote about that here: https://shellsharks.com/notes/2025/01/10/gotosocial-on-knt-host)

It really is freeing to have this space. So thanks to you, and everyone else involved in making it happen!