GoToSocial - Week 2

I've kept checking in on the GoToSocial project during it's development and wanted to give it a go after it entered beta a few months ago and the holiday break was when i had the inspiration and time so off i went and setup my own.   

So after two weeks i have no complaints on the core functionality nor have i come across any breakage. I've tried different apps (frontends) and currently use Phanpy and Elk. One thing i miss from Mastodon is BirdUI, Tangerine and even the current default mastodon web ui.

GtS also just recently released their own flavor of the Masto-FE that you can directly access here

This is a fork of Iceshrimp's Masto-FE Standalone repository, which is itself a fork of Mastodon Glitch Edition, which in turn forks Mastodon. Phew!

I haven't looked into resource usage specifically as i'm running it on a 4vCore, 4GB Ram VPS with FreshRSS and Phanpy so nothing really taxing. But storage wise GtS took about 17GB of storage in one week and i do not post any media myself but i do follow a few media heavy accounts. I did end up setting the media cache retention from the default 7 down to 2 days as that's enough for me which shaved off several gb of storage.  

One interesting new feature coming up is the domain permissions so subscribing to blocklists can be completely hands off for those that prefer that. 

And me being, well me the only backup i have is of the accounts i follow. The reason is i don't feel like i really need it, there is nothing of value in my random echoes out in the void. If it goes into a black hole then i'll just set up a new instance, go try something else or go back to Mastodon proper.

Though currently i think Glitch-soc is what i'd aim for if/when i move as it has basic markdown and i can use whichever app/ui as long as it's supports Mastodon. Another interesting project i came across is Akkoma with the Mangane frontend which i'm keeping an eye on. See it live here

My GtS instance if you want to interact, ask anything, provide feedback etc.