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+authors = ["marin"]
+title = "setting up gotosocial"
+date = "2025-04-19"
+description = "making my own gotosocial instance"
+tags = [
+    "fediverse",
+]
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+after deciding that i want to run my own fediverse server my first idea was
+to install mastodon, as it was the only one i knew about at the time.
+after doing some research i discovered [GoToSocial](https://gotosocial.org)
+which really caught my eye so i decided to try it out.
+the setup was quite easy, i followed the official guide in their
+[docs](https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/getting_started). the only
+thing i had to do extra was set up "split-domain deployment", which was also
+very easy to do because its well documented in their
+[guide](https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/advanced/host-account-domain/).
+at the beggining, i was having some issues with not having enough content in
+my feed and just poor discovery of new content, my first idea was to
+subscribe to a relay, but after looking up how to do that i discovered that
+[gotosocial has not yet implemented it (atleast at the time of
+writing)](https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/1123),
+but i discovered https://relay.fedi.buzz/ , a really useful tool that
+allowed me to follow a bot account like @tag-linux@relay.fedi.buzz which
+would boost all toots that had the tag linux in it, so that my server would
+still recieve them and federate. after a few hours of usage my server was
+federated with over 200 servers and i had more then enough content to read.
+