2025 Fediverse update: GotoSocial server and the Phanpy web client are great!
Ok time for some updates. So I have been putting off maintenance of my personal Mastodon instance, and instead relying on another server for my main account, which just feels wrong for a decentralized social network. I’ll need to write up a separate article about my struggles with
So I started to look around for a server that’s a little more lightweight management-wise, as I just host myself (and a few bots), and after some search I found GotoSocial. GotoSocial (abbreviated GTS) is much like Mastodon in that it is also a Federated Activitypub server implementation, and thus compatible with Mastodon servers, but has much smaller resource requirements. It can run on a single board computer with 1GB …
