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+++ 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 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. 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. 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), 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.