<![CDATA[GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative]]>The software is currently in alpha stages, but supports a lot already and can pretty much be used daily. It's also super light on resources, enough so that you can use it without a database server (sqlite) (but supports postgresql also!) and can run on a Raspberry Pi Zero!

Original Source: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial

I also have an app packed and ready to install, but i'm currently testing so I wont make it public just yet, but you can see the instance running at https://gts.urgero.dev (assuming I haven't taken it down for testing/rebuilding)

Public repo for testing: https://git.cloudron.io/murgero/cloudron-gotosocial

And a current user profile that I am using for testing also: https://gts.urgero.dev/@socialadmin
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]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/8263/gotosocial-mastodon-alternativeRSS for NodeSun, 10 May 2026 14:29:19 GMTWed, 21 Dec 2022 15:55:10 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Sat, 06 Apr 2024 16:04:06 GMT]]>@murgero Thank you for your reply. I don't know if it would be beyond me.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/86507https://forum.cloudron.io/post/86507Sat, 06 Apr 2024 16:04:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:11:42 GMT]]>@archos my package on cloudron's gitlab server is federation ready afaik. But I haven't updated it in a long while, if you update it, it can be installed via cloudron CLI and be used just fine

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/86414https://forum.cloudron.io/post/86414Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:11:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Fri, 05 Apr 2024 10:10:57 GMT]]>@archos I think the more the merrier, but I'd rather see other fediverse apps in completely different categories that we haven't got covered at all yet, things like Mobilizon and Lemmy.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/86396https://forum.cloudron.io/post/86396Fri, 05 Apr 2024 10:10:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Fri, 05 Apr 2024 06:06:42 GMT]]>What do you think, does nobody really want Gotosocial in Cloudron? I understand there are already three fediverse apps in the app store, but for individuals, gotosocial is much better than the big Mastodon.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/86386https://forum.cloudron.io/post/86386Fri, 05 Apr 2024 06:06:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Sun, 14 Jan 2024 13:06:54 GMT]]>If there was a Gotosocial on Cloudron it would be great. Minimal on resources and for individuals, it's definitely a better choice than Mastodon.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/81043https://forum.cloudron.io/post/81043Sun, 14 Jan 2024 13:06:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Fri, 26 May 2023 15:00:24 GMT]]>@doodlemania2 Repo is in the original post 🙂

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/67215https://forum.cloudron.io/post/67215Fri, 26 May 2023 15:00:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Fri, 26 May 2023 14:57:49 GMT]]>@murgero care to share?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/67214https://forum.cloudron.io/post/67214Fri, 26 May 2023 14:57:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Fri, 26 May 2023 13:17:09 GMT]]>@robi This app is packaged and tested working on my server, repo is ready - all it needs is tests which I cannot do right now but maybe this weekend or next.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/67211https://forum.cloudron.io/post/67211Fri, 26 May 2023 13:17:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Fri, 26 May 2023 05:04:42 GMT]]>@yusf if you help get things started and moving forward packaging, others can contribute, then @girish will be able to add it to the app store for testing.

Otherwise the larger number of upvotes for other apps will likely take precedence.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/67181https://forum.cloudron.io/post/67181Fri, 26 May 2023 05:04:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Thu, 25 May 2023 08:01:32 GMT]]>imo this app is great for when not wanting the full resource hog that is the Mastodon package. @girish / @nebulon, are you interested in packaging?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/67144https://forum.cloudron.io/post/67144Thu, 25 May 2023 08:01:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Fri, 17 Mar 2023 02:45:37 GMT]]>@yusf That's more a question for psql community. sadly IDK lol

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/63337https://forum.cloudron.io/post/63337Fri, 17 Mar 2023 02:45:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:59:37 GMT]]>@murgero It's not clear to me how to do that. I tried

ALTER DATABASE mydb CONNECTION LIMIT 0;
and

SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pid)
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE datname = 'mydb';

but I only managed to lock myself out before being able to
DROP DATABASE mydb; 😂

How should I drop the database? No matter what I try I get

ERROR: cannot drop the currently open database`

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/63313https://forum.cloudron.io/post/63313Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:59:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Sun, 05 Mar 2023 18:06:06 GMT]]>@yusf you should be able to yes

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62784https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62784Sun, 05 Mar 2023 18:06:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Sun, 05 Mar 2023 10:55:40 GMT]]>So I can enter a terminal in the GTS container, access and drop its db from there?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62770https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62770Sun, 05 Mar 2023 10:55:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Sun, 01 Jan 2023 04:32:24 GMT]]>@murgero no, it was a suggestion, since so many people want TLD based Masto IDs yet still want to run the server on a subdomain.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58946https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58946Sun, 01 Jan 2023 04:32:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Sun, 01 Jan 2023 04:03:34 GMT]]>@robi Is that something upstream? Cause I can't find that.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58945https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58945Sun, 01 Jan 2023 04:03:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Sun, 01 Jan 2023 04:31:34 GMT]]>Sounds like there could be a DB script action created that would be a bit more fine grained in modifying just the wanted (sub)domain references, instead of a whole DB drop.

Eventually becoming a migration script.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58939https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58939Sun, 01 Jan 2023 04:31:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 13:16:06 GMT]]>@yusf You can't move domain once it's installed unless you drop the database it uses (see that same config for the creds, db name, etc)

be aware this will erase any user data on the instance.

But yes - it will recreate database and tables.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58934https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58934Sat, 31 Dec 2022 13:16:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:26:03 GMT]]>@murgero So if I drop the table it just gets recreated?

I was also considering trying install to domain.tld, then move it to a subdomain.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58933https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58933Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:26:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 07:59:26 GMT]]>@yusf The startup script configures this for you. I am trying to find a way to make that configurable pre-install like some apps can change their ports pre install. Otherwise it defaults to the current app domain.

Also, if you wanna get weird with it, you can change that value but then drop the table in postgresql for the app (PROCEED WITH CAUTION)

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58924https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58924Sat, 31 Dec 2022 07:59:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 07:57:32 GMT]]>@yusf Oh shoot, I should remove the medialinks section, its not ready yet.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58923https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58923Sat, 31 Dec 2022 07:57:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:51:39 GMT]]>I did remove the mediaLinks line in the manifest file and it all worked. Now my issue is that I can't configure account-domain before the app boots up, making it seemingly impossible to change:

# DO NOT change this after your server has already run once, or you will break things!

Any advice? 🙂

Great job so far 💓

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58912https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58912Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:51:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:11:42 GMT]]>@murgero Hey, I'm getting

App installation error: Invalid CloudronManifest.json: Format validation failed (Invalid URL) @ /mediaLinks/0

when running cloudron install --image=mitchellurgero/org.urgero.gts:latest.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58910https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58910Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:11:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to GoToSocial | Mastodon Alternative on Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:50:18 GMT]]>Anyone looking to try it out: Public repo for testing: https://git.cloudron.io/murgero/cloudron-gotosocial

It's pretty stable, but there are upstream bugs like weird federation issues with certain versions of Mastodon and other ActivityPub servers.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58614https://forum.cloudron.io/post/58614Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:50:18 GMT