@csett86 Thank you Christoph 
If I were to be more specific, I'd say that my experience with my Debian VPS and #YunoHost is 100/100. I'm hosting #GoToSocial, #Friendica, #Pixelfed and #LinkStack there... Maybe soon #PeerTube (gotta upgrade to a slightly more powerful plan).
My Ubuntu VPS that has #Ghost was a 80/100 most days - which dropped down to 20/100 because of the Mastodon Hug of Death.
Not too bad, I'd say overall 
Just got 2FA working nicely on the back end, API, and login flow :) Time to add it to the settings panel now.
Good morning Fedi friends!
It's been 99 days since I started self-hosting my own Fediverse instances. Crazy how time flies!
I've been a bit absent from here this week because I started exploring the world of #PeerTube from the POV of a creator.
I just set up my own account on #MakerTube - so that I can write a guide that is accessible to many (as opposed to skipping this step and going straight to self-hosting).
Anyway, here is my PeerTube account: https://makertube.net/a/elena/video-channels
I have been able to follow it from #Mastodon and #Friendica without a problem, but I keep getting an error message when I try to subscribe with my #GoToSocial username. The exact message: "Cannot fetch information from this remote account." Does anybody have the same issue? (as in: people on GoToSocial, can you subscribe to PeerTube channels?)
Wishing you all a lovely day 
P.S.: about to go offline for the rest of the day because... there's no pre-school in France on Wednesdays and the garderie keeps my little one up until 12:30. So apologies in advance if I'm slow to reply to messages.
#MySoCalledSudoLife
If anyone has done this on a headless server and knows how to get past this step please do lmk...as slurp seems to be the only way to transfer posts to gts #gotosocial
@whitepaperkat I assume you mean media retention? #GoToSocial automatically removes cached remote media after 7 days. You can reduce that if you have a very busy server, or a smaller amount of storage. maybe 5 days? https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/media_caching/
Or do you mean retention of your own posts? These don't take up much room in comparison to the cache of remote media.
I wonder if there is actually a proper way to set retention on #gotosocial I'm afraid I might run out of space after a while
eyyy it works! :) With the latest code on #GoToSocial main you can dereference and like and boost #Bandwagon albums, and follow #Bandwagon artists! Nice!
Anyone using #litestream for an #sqlite DB
I have a 3GB database, and Litestream is replicating it to another server. However, it seems to be running out of control with disk space. On the original server (where the live DB is) is a generations folder under the hidden litestream folder. It is full of WAL files. Currently over 37,000 files consuming 118GB of disk space.
My config includes retention: 24h and retention-check-interval: 1h with a snapshot-interval: 4h. I understood it would delete anything older than 24 hours. Am I doing something wrong? These wal files go back to the day I started using litestream
#GoToSocial #gts @gotosocial@thefedi.forum
Anyone using #litestream for an #sqlite DB
I have a 3GB database, and Litestream is replicating it to another server. However, it seems to be running out of control with disk space. On the original server (where the live DB is) is a generations folder under the hidden litestream folder. It is full of WAL files. Currently over 37,000 files consuming 118GB of disk space.
My config includes retention: 24h and retention-check-interval: 1h with a snapshot-interval: 4h. I understood it would delete anything older than 24 hours. Am I doing something wrong? These wal files go back to the day I started using litestream
Creating A GoToSocial Instance on FediHost
Hello nerds, another #GoToSocial bugfix release :) Turns out 0.18.2 wasn't the last one after all.
https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.18.3
This one fixes a bug with domain subscriptions with orphan adoption, which could cause entries for the subscription to not be created. An important bugfix for island networks that rely on allowlist subscription(s) to keep everyone in the network on the same allowlist(s).
Also small wording changes on the frontend, and a fix for an issue that could cause error messages to be swallowed on startup.
If you're updating to this version from v0.18.0, v0.18.1, or v0.18.2, it's a very easy update with no db migrations or config file changes :)
If you're updating to this version from a version before v0.18.0, please follow the update instructions from v0.18.0, but replace 0.18.0 with 0.18.3 throughout. Be aware that the update to 0.18.x contains some very long migrations. Please do read the notes carefully.
@dusepo sim! estou agora na minha instância de @gotosocial : melhores controles de interação e privacidade que o Mastodon, alguns recursos mais avançados e imensamente mais leve no uso de recursos do servidor. #GoToSocial 
I was unhappy with RSS readers, so I used the power I have over my #GoToSocial instance and created a bot account, which gets the RSS feeds I want through https://mastofeed.org/.
It already has 17 followers after five hours of existence 
Shows only Czech cybersecurity related feeds to keep it focused, but I think I may create another one or two accounts to have English feeds I'm interested in for different topics also - maybe even to get RSS feeds of some BlueSky artists who have them public so I don't need to go there.
alright i think i'm done dicking about with the gallery view thingy for now, it's looking pretty good
if you wanna preview it live i'm running it on my personal profile: https://goblin.technology/@tobi
try it on different screen sizes and stuff, it looks good :)
and here's a video preview too
proud of this!
Here look! Lil video of a profile set to gallery mode! Just gotta update the tests and also make it choosable on the settings panel, kapow!
I don't mind the idea of admin via CLI. 95% of my #Yunohost admin that I do is by CLI. My main concern about using anything other than #Mastodon though, is that I've gotten used to the nice things that Mastodon has, and I think I'd miss any that were missing on another platform.
I know other platforms often have other advantages like >500 character toots, but honestly I haven't seen any that I really crave. #GoToSocial sounded nice, but it sounded like there was still some missing stuff.
@WeirdWriter I have tried them all. #Friendica seems nice, but every so often an update complete bricks it. #gotosocial doesn't seem to have a front end, which makes it a little more difficult to use. I never could get #Bookwyrm to install. And currently I am trying out #diaspora. One thing I think all of them lack is interconnectability. I like #Mastodon because you can connect and use relays to help connect to other instances. If there is a way to do it with any of the above, I have never figured it out. If you have any tips or suggestions, I am all ears!
my adventures in #selfhosting - day 89 
Oh #PeerTube, you are making me do mental somersaults as I strategize about the best way to self-host my videos.
This newbie wants to ask: how many VPS’s are too many for someone who has little coding experience and has been self-hosting for just 3 months?
Fedi friends, I’m thinking of signing up for a THIRD VPS 
Why?
My current setup:
5€/month Debian VPS with #YunoHost, where I’m self-hosting #GoToSocial (this account), #Friendica, #Pixelfed, #Fail2Ban and #LinkStack.
5€/month Ubuntu VPS where I am self-hosting my (upcoming) #Ghost blog (this will make me save a ton, compared to my current Ghost Pro plan).
Back to PeerTube: I could easily upgrade my #Debian VPS and install it there - the costs would be minimal and I would double my RAM and storage. But I am afraid of PeerTube’s consumption when it comes to bandwidth. As in: if I upload a video that for some reason becomes really popular, or if a bad actor decides to DDOS my channel, would that take down all my other self-hosted Fediverse instances? Since they are on the same VPS?
I could limit potential issues by having a dedicated VPS just for PeerTube.
What would you do?
And do you have recommendations for Europe-based VPS’s with affordable plans? (aside from Hostinger) I was thinking of #Hetzner…
#MySoCalledSudoLife #AskFedi
When it comes to self-hosting a #fediverse instance, perhaps even a small one (~1-10 people), is #GoToSocial the best bet? If it's lightweight compared to the rest, it supports post edits, longer char limits than #Mastodon, and supports Mastodon API well so it can be used in Mastodon apps then I'm sold - question is, is it?
+1 if there's official deployment strategy for #Kubernetes or at least #Docker
+1 if it supports quote posts too
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