seen quite a few people lately spinning up lil single-user instances for themselves and talking about how it feels really freeing to be in charge of their own fedi presence; that's really nice to read :)

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:

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

Admin Settings Panel - GoToSocial Documentation

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Also you can now experiment with @vyr's Slurp tool to import a mastodon archive into your GtS instance, so you can carry your posts with you: https://github.com/VyrCossont/slurp?tab=readme-ov-file#importing-a-mastodon-archive. Handy if you're migrating off a big instance onto a self-hosted one (yay, decentralization!) and you wanna keep your bangers. At some point we'll build this functionality into GtS itself so you can just upload an archive via the settings panel, but for now you've gotta do some Computer Touching to make it work.
GitHub - VyrCossont/slurp: tool for exporting data from and importing data to Fediverse instances. development has moved to Codeberg.

tool for exporting data from and importing data to Fediverse instances. development has moved to Codeberg. - VyrCossont/slurp

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@dumpsterqueer @vyr this is awesome! Not needed anymore in my case, but some friends have not selfhosted yet for this reason, they will love it! Already advertised them!

Thank's, as always, for doing this super software!