I use a static blog powered by #Hugo and I wanted comments under the articles that would be part of #Fediverse. I made it somehow, so I wrote a blog about how I combined #Hugo and #Gotosocial https://michal.hrusecky.net/2026/07/fediverse-comments/

Not that I feel like an influencer or what but if you need this to step forward, I enabled a small monthly donation to #GoToSocial. Because I use it. Because I like it. Because it needs it. Because #FOSS still rely on people that need to eat and afford a house.

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial

Curious what kind of luck people have had running a single-user, self-hosted @gotosocial instance instead of joining a larger shared node.

With relays in GotoSocial, my feed is great—I can discover pretty much everything I care about. My bigger question is the *other* direction. I've heard some instances de-prioritize or outright limit federation from low-volume, self-hosted, or otherwise unknown nodes.

If you're mostly consuming content, I imagine it's a non-issue. But if you actually want to participate in conversations, are you giving up reliable interaction by running your own tiny instance?

Curious to hear real-world experiences. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SelfHosting #GoToSocial

Can you guess when I activated ActivityPub relays on this #GoToSocial instance? BTW, although running on #OpenBSD, cpu and memory usage are still chilling.

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Evolution of post activity in the last 15 days.

Aw sweet sweet temptation.

Worry not dear Fedi friends, I can assure you I'm going back to writing wholesome self-hosting guides for newbies.

Next up: how to install and set-up #GoToSocial with the help of #YunoHost (coming next week).

The temptation to write about a certain 4-letter, somewhat hyped, closed-source EU social network was strong... but I am keeping those impulses in check. ewww social, you're safe! 🤭

Wishing you all a great weekend!

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the meme of a man sweating profusely as he has to make a decision about which button to push. the choices here: "an article roasting another European platform" and "a self-hosting guide for GoToSocial"

If you can read this message from your own rock on the Fediverse ocean, it means this #GoToSocial bush has been properly upgraded to v0.22.0 Shrubby Sloth 🌿 while running on the unsupported #OpenBSD 7.9/amd64 platform using NOWASM and exposed through #relayd and #httpd.

The relay features have not been enabled, yet. Because I'd rather check that everything else work first. But they will, soon.

Reading the dense feature-full #GoToSocial 0.22.0 release notes while Go compilation and Yarn whatever happen on the sideway SSH connection to the #OpenBSD server...

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases

@gotosocial if this message makes its way to the fediforest, it means #GoToSocial upgrade was successful - even on my unsupported NOWASM #OpenBSD system.