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2025 Fediverse update: GotoSocial server and the Phanpy web client are great!

Posted on January 2, 2025January 2, 2025 by chrisa

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 …

I’m (Back) on Mastodon

Posted on April 12, 2023April 12, 2023 by chrisa

I have actually switched some time ago, but it’s a good time to point to my Mastodon Profile where I still (occasionally) post useful or interesting things. I had an instance in the past, but general fatigue of Social Networks made it stick this time, and I’m quite happy with the result. Mastodon feels like what the web felt like before 2000. Regular people putting out information they find interesting, and no corporate manipulation or obsessive monetization where ‘you are the product’.

Ironically though, what Mastodon really needs are people who are constantly publishing new content, whereas I generally use Social Media as consuming information.

Why is Mastodon great? Well it is a Federated space and comes with all the …