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.

#gotosocial #gts #mastodon #fediverse #devops #activitypub

@joho I do think @_elena runs a self-hosted GTS instance and might have some insight.

@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

@_elena @mkj @joho can SLURP still be used to backdate posts on GTS? It never worked for me when I tried to import old mastodon posts
@andreas I haven't tried it but reading the testimonies of Joel and Jeff I understood that posts are backdated and those with mentions do not create new notifications...