+++
authors = ["marin"]
title = "setting up gotosocial"
date = "2025-04-19"
description = "making my own gotosocial instance"
tags = [
    "fediverse",
]
+++
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.