now that I've upgraded to gotosocial 0.21 I'll be muting accounts on mastodon.social that I don't already follow

I get it that account migration is a pain but please consider finding a better instance!

when I first switched to gotosocial in mid-2023 it was a little rough; there were some missing features I had gotten used to from mastodon, but still worth it

over the years they've improved things, mostly caught up, and even gone significantly further than mastodon in some cases (markdown, reply controls)

being able to do this kind of selective muting where it doesn't sever connections to accounts you already follow is the last of the features I was missing from Mastodon!

@technomancy if you don't mind me asking, how hard was it to switch server software?

@bjc oh, I didn't switch server software; I still have my old alt up at https://icosahedron.website/@technomancy on someone else's server

starting my own was very easy: https://technomancy.us/201

but it's even easier now that you can install thru apt: https://apt.technomancy.us/

tech? no! man, see... (@[email protected])

15.1K Posts, 120 Following, 2.6K Followers ยท tryin' to catch the last train out of Omelas https://technomancy.us/colophon this is my older alt account but I'm more active on gotosocial at @[email protected]

Icosahedron

@technomancy thanks, that makes sense. it's kind of a shame that it's easier to change domains than swap out server software.

turns out there's already a freebsd package for gts, so i think i'll spend this weekend trying it out. have you switched frontends from pinafore since the author's stopped maintaining it?

@bjc yes, I'm using enafore now

it has some bugs that pinafore didn't, but it collapses repeated notifications so it's totally worth it