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