I made a blaghpost about how I run my #gotosocial instance: https://technomancy.us/201

maybe it can be helpful to you too??

@technomancy I have a feeling that eventually I will migrate over to gotosocial, but are there any clients that have the ability to restrict the timeline to only show replies to people that you follow instead of all replies from people that you follow? I have yet to find one that does that works with Akkoma, at least (or maybe I’m just unable to find the option for it in anything besides the Pleroma FE 😭).

@technomancy Also curious if you’ve seen any commonalities on people having issues runner it in Docker, since that’s likely how I’ll want to run it.

@alpha no; there's no config setting for this because it just does the right thing out of the box

I remember when I ran Pleroma the default setting was quite bad and ended up showing you a bunch of irrelevant posts, but AFAIK Pleroma/Akkoma are the only servers that do that; it's not a problem in GTS

@alpha hi, I run GTS in Docker (w/ no major issues so far) and am happy to answer any questions u might have 🙂

You can see more background on my setup here FYI: https://gts.allemonde.world/@nachtlied/statuses/01HN7VRZZ49GY7SN151YH4DR1Q

@technomancy thanks for the write-up! It's always interesting to see all the different ways that ppl are running GTS 😁

@alpha @technomancy I run GtS in Docker. Mount the media volume and DB volume. It’s fine. I’ve had no problems at all.

I’d like to move to hosting it on fly.io, but haven’t had sufficient time or motivation to change something that’s working fine!

@alpha @technomancy this seems to be the default behavior for every client I’ve used with GtS. I use elk.zone or phanpy on desktop, and Ice Cubes or Mammoth on iOS and I don’t see all replies from all people I’m following - only replies to mutuals.

@technomancy Ah, dang, I bet Mastodon does that too, which explains why no freaking clients have that setting as an option!

@technomancy Nice one, I was laughing a lot.

The permalink paragraph made me think though, I kinda get your point but I think you're mixing up "has a permalink" and "has a nice fallback non-js view". For all intents and purposes the mastodon one is also a permalink but I just looked at the html code and you know what, forget I said something.

I'm also using GTS for a project and it's really fine, I just think they're changing their config too often, so I find updating the yaml a bit tedious.

And now I guess I should go for an upgrade.

@wink I agree there is some ambiguity; in my mind a permalink is a link to a web page rather than a link to an app that tells the app to then go fetch a specific piece of content (maybe if the SPA worked better and felt like a web page it'd be different but Mastodon fails this hard)

I have also noticed that the release notes for GTS nearly always say that you need to "make changes" to the config file, but they don't tell you what those changes are

in my experience the release notes are ... just wrong about this? after the first few upgrades I just started ignoring that and leaving the config alone, and it always just works; ymmv I guess =)

@wink oh my god I just looked at the source for a Mastodon link, and ....... the entire contents of the post is included? it's embedded in the HTML twice but only inside <meta> tags that aren't visible to the user

they tell users to fuck off if you don't have scripting despite actually sending them the post; goddamn React Brain Worms

@alpha @technomancy been running this instance on docker for about 5 months as a test bed before migrating my main accounts over. #gotosocial has been the least troublesome social network software I've run.

0 issues at all; it's honestly fantastic.