I'm a bit curious about GoToSocial, in particular because I want to host a few Fediverse/ActivityPub instances myself, and GTS seems to be a bit less resource hungry and supports "backports" of past data.
Does anyone have experience with the GTS platform vs Mastodon? I'm not interested in a "flame war", just objective comparisons.
@mkj @joho yes I have a self-hosted GtS instance (well they are all self-hosted solo instances for the most part) and LOVE it.
With SLURP you could even migrate your entire Mastodon or Pixelfed post archive to it.
1000% recommended and I plan to write a guide to set it up via YunoHost next month (busy April) 😅
only downside is that it works for "small" accounts so with 3k followers it's getting a little overwhelmed. I fixed it by creating a cron job to restart dnsmasq every 8 hours
Thank you for the feedback! 😊
There's no chance of me ever reaching 3k followers, so that seems like something I could use then.
The thing is that I already have an instance up and running with part of the required blocks, so it seems like that may be a good fit.
Why is there only 24h in a day ... 🙄
"Porting" your fediverse/activitypub data is also very welcome news 🤓
@joho @mkj you're welcome Joaquim.
FYI both @box464 and @joel have written about their experiences migrating their Pixelfed archives to GoToSocial. A Mastodon move should be similar:
Joel's post
🔗 : https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/gotosocial-adventures-migrate-from-pixelfed/
Jeff's post:
🔗 : https://box464.com/posts/gotosocial-slurp/
Wishing you all the best with your move!
When I decided to stop publishing on Instagram, I seeked for alternatives and Pixelfed looked like a nice one. The fact that it had a migration feature from IG made me go for it. But for reasons, I don’t want to use this software anymore. And now that GoToSocial features the Gallery / Gram-style layout , it is time to migrate the account and its data to GtS.
Joaquim Homrighausen
mkj
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