GoToSocial
social media
Current version: 0.19.0~ynh2
Potential alternative to: Akkoma, Calckey, Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Threads, X
GoToSocial is a fast ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang.
With GoToSocial, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles. All without being tracked or advertised to!
The official documentation is at docs.gotosocial.org.
Admins are strongly encouraged to read the documentation of this package after installing it. It is available in the webadmin under Applications > gotosocial (at the bottom) or here on the package's repository!
Please note that this package uses the "i'm so tired" software license 1.0, please read it and accept it before proceeding with installation.
Important infos before installing
GoToSocial require a dedicated domain (or subdomain) name, for example: gotosocial.example.com
Please note the following points:
- You will no longer be able to change this domain name once it has been set up GoToSocial.
- If you uninstall GoToSocial, you will no longer be able to use this domain name with another federated software installation, as it will be impossible to reuse the keys used to secure the federation.
- GoToSocial does not provide a user interface.
- ⚠️ It doesn’t work well on other than amd64 and arm64 systems, mainly due to performance of media decoding. This package will install the
nowasmversion on those systems; but please note that it is are experimental and unsupported, so please don't ask for support if your system uses it. (More info here.)[https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/advanced/builds/nowasm/]
You will need to use a Mastodon-compatible client such as Tusky on Android, Feditext for iOS or an instance of Semaphore on the Web.
Also this package uses the "i'm so tired" software license 1.0, please read it and accept it before proceeding with installation.
Antifeatures
(This app has features you may not like)
- The YunoHost package of this app is under an overall free license, but with clauses that may restrict its use.