Robin KippHere it is, my new, self-hosted home in the #Fediverse running on #GoToSocial! This is really exciting stuff, now I’m truly living the Fedi spirit by supporting decentralization. If you're reading this and don't mind, I'd greatly appreciate a boost of this post to help my tiny new instance discover more servers. Thanks! #NewFedi #FediAdmin #Selfhosting
Huge thanks to each and every one of you who has taken the time to favorite and repost, super greatly appreciated! Federating with 793 other instances so far 🎉
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Talon@robin nice! Congrats! Want some tips? :)
@talon Sorry your Toot just showed up for me. But yes, absolutely would love some tips for sure if you don't mind!
@robin oh sorry about that, I missed this.
I mainly said this because of your post I was replying to. Boosting your post won't actually do very much for your federation other than spread that one particular post around. Fedi is push based, not pull based, so the real way to get content and server reach is to both be followed and to follow people. I don't think GTS does relays yet, so that would be another way of getting content into your instance, but you might need to wait. This is the same for hashtags.
I mainly said this because of your post I was replying to. Boosting your post won't actually do very much for your federation other than spread that one particular post around. Fedi is push based, not pull based, so the real way to get content and server reach is to both be followed and to follow people. I don't think GTS does relays yet, so that would be another way of getting content into your instance, but you might need to wait. This is the same for hashtags.
@talon Thanks so much for clarifying and for the explanations! I was under the impression that boosting would indeed result in my server pulling in more posts from other instances, but I guess that was a misconception on my part having seen others doing this after spinning up a new server. I did follow many of the people who boosted though as a way to say thank-you, so perhaps this actually did help extend my server's reach by extension :-). GTS does not support relays yet sadly, although it is on their roadmap, I only realized it after I'd already configured most things so there was no turning back. That being said though, I do feel GTS is absolutely the right choice for my single-user scenario, setting up Mastodon or one of its forks would likely be overkill for my small Fedi home. That being said, I did find this project which seems interesting, maybe I should look into setting this up: https://codeberg.org/tante/hypebot
@robin GTS is definitely the right choice without a doubt, at least in my opinion.
Yeah this push based thing is something a lot of people struggle with. If a server doesn't send you stuff, you won't get stuff, without external tools. I'm not entirely sure if GTS does context backfilling yet, I used to use fedifetcher for that for example. That's another way to get content in.
Yeah this push based thing is something a lot of people struggle with. If a server doesn't send you stuff, you won't get stuff, without external tools. I'm not entirely sure if GTS does context backfilling yet, I used to use fedifetcher for that for example. That's another way to get content in.
@talon Wow, thanks for the great tip! I think GTS does do context backfilling, but I’ll be sure to check out FediFetcher.
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Jason Fayre@robin @FreakyFwoof I think I need to do this. How lightweight is it? can it run on a raspberry pie?
@jfayre @FreakyFwoof Oh yes, it absolutely can run on a Pi (it actually was designed from the ground up to be as lightweight as possible). You can find all the info about recommended specs here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/getting_started/#server-vps
Codemichael@codemichael I wish I could help, but sadly having exactly the same on my end. My timeline looks good, but searching for hashtags turns up nothing in most cases. Not really sure how to fix it unfortunately.
@robin I’ve been testing #PhanpySocial web client, seems pretty nice and lets you create a hashtag column for other instances. Doesn’t really fix the search problem though.