How to Install #GoToSocial on Rocky Linux #VPS (10 Minute Launch Guide 🚀)

This article provides a guide for how to install GoToSocial on Rocky Linux VPS.
What is GoToSocial?
GoToSocial is an open-source, self-hostable social network server that is part of the Fediverse, a collection of interconnected but independent social networks. It allows you to create and manage your own social media platform with ...
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How to Install #GoToSocial on Rocky Linux #VPS (10 Minute Launch Guide 🚀)

This article provides a guide for how to install GoToSocial on Rocky Linux VPS.
What is GoToSocial?
GoToSocial is an open-source, self-hostable social network server that is part of the Fediverse, a collection of interconnected but independent social networks. It allows you to create and manage your own social media platform with ...
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Do I understand correctly that even if I host my own #gotosocial instance, there's no way of loading replies from other instances from users I don't follow, unless I go to the original instance?

#fedihelp

Mondays mean: manually backing up my #YunoHost system.

Speaking of YH, in case you missed it, here is my latest guide for newbies about how to install an app with YunoHost - I showcased NextCloud in my tutorial: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-3-lets-install-nextcloud/

I'm always surprised by the sheer size of backups - this time 15GB (ugh!) broken down as follows (from biggest to smallest):

#GoToSocial: 6.2 GB
#PeerTube: 4.3 GB
#NextCloud: 3.0 GB
#Pixelfed: 1.5 GB
#LinkStack: 91 MB

I'm brainstorming ways to make my GoToSocial backup size go down... I have cache set to 1 day only, so I'm trying unfollowing a few accounts (that I already follow from my Mastodon profile) to see if that makes a difference.

Anyway, wishing you all a great day & week!

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Christ! Trying to move to a new Mastodon instance from a GoToSocial instance has been a humbling experience. I think I'm going to give up and stay with my #GoToSocial instance. It's just too frustrating to keep trying.

Six month ago today (17 July '25) I soft-launched #TagPush onto the fediverse. It's an idea I had smouldering in my head for a month or two. I saw two problems with #Hashtags on the Fediverse:

• You can only find/follow hashtags, and posts of those tags, based on what your own server knows. If someone on another server posts with the tag, but your server doesn't get a copy, you will not see it.

• Small servers suffer more due to lack of traffic.

The fundamental flaw (design) of the fediverse is that servers only see a subset of content.

Along came TagPush. Not rocket science by any means, by my one man attempt to automatically hoover up content from the fediverse, based on a tag. If you follow the TagpPush account for the tag you will then get the content pushed to you.

The tech behind it is simple. A #GoToSocial server manages the Fediverse comms for follows, boosts, etc. I have a python app doing the donkey work around the fediverse looking for content based on tags. It then boosts those out every 5 minutes or so.

Here we are, 185 days in, scooping up content for 48 hashtags and pushing them out to a total of 1,195 followers for tags. Amounting to 298,375 pushed posts (at the time of writing this). That's well in excess of quarter of a million posts. Wow!

Not bad for a simple idea.

More details here: https://verbamea.com/4dd1a1ca55

Happy to add more tags to be pushed - as long as there is regular content.

Six month ago today (17 July '25) I soft-launched #TagPush onto the fediverse. It's an idea I had smouldering in my head for a month or two. I saw two problems with #Hashtags on the Fediverse:

• You can only find/follow hashtags, and posts of those tags, based on what your own server knows. If someone on another server posts with the tag, but your server doesn't get a copy, you will not see it.

• Small servers suffer more due to lack of traffic.

The fundamental flaw (design) of the fediverse is that servers only see a subset of content.

Along came TagPush. Not rocket science by any means, by my one man attempt to automatically hoover up content from the fediverse, based on a tag. If you follow the TagpPush account for the tag you will then get the content pushed to you.

The tech behind it is simple. A #GoToSocial server manages the Fediverse comms for follows, boosts, etc. I have a python app doing the donkey work around the fediverse looking for content based on tags. It then boosts those out every 5 minutes or so.

Here we are, 185 days in, scooping up content for 48 hashtags and pushing them out to a total of 1,195 followers for tags. Amounting to 298,375 pushed posts (at the time of writing this). That's well in excess of quarter of a million posts. Wow!

Not bad for a simple idea.

More details here: https://verbamea.com/4dd1a1ca55

Happy to add more tags to be pushed - as long as there is regular content.

I've noticed that if I share or like a number of posts in quick succession, my GoToSocial instance gets more and more delayed in sending them out.

Is this more likely to be an issue with my VPS provider, or with GtS itself?

#AskFedi #GoToSocial #GtS

I've noticed that if I share or like a number of posts in quick succession, my GoToSocial instance gets more and more delayed in sending them out.

Is this more likely to be an issue with my VPS provider, or with GtS itself?

#AskFedi #GoToSocial #GtS

i don't know how the @gotosocial folks manage it so consistently, but they have again enabled me to not touch my instance for like nine months, decide out of the blue to yolo a major upgrade, and walk away from the whole thing an hour later, unscathed and posting.

#gotosocialadmin #gotosocial

i don't know how the @gotosocial folks manage it so consistently, but they have again enabled me to not touch my instance for like nine months, decide out of the blue to yolo a major upgrade, and walk away from the whole thing an hour later, unscathed and posting.

#gotosocialadmin #gotosocial

@preinheimer @ramsey oh my gosh hi?!

my instance is a bad one to test, i literally just upgraded from #gotosocial 0.19.1 to 0.20.2 so all bets are off

according to this as of December 2025 there were 1,632 #GoToSocial instances on the Fediverse, up 400 instances from the same time the year before:

https://prattohome.com/@ottoto2017/115869882336719794

and I keep telling people the sloth is stinky software that shouldn't be used

Hey all, if you're reading this, you have not been moved to my new account: @zef@social.zef.pub — please follow this account manually.

I attempted a proper move a week or two ago, but this wasn't 100% successful, so please manually follow @zef@social.zef.pub instead.

The new account is on my own #GotoSocial self-hosted instance which I prefer. #Hachyderm has been great, so nothing against it. I'd julst like to dabble more with #selfhosting now.

I'll attempt another proper migration in 21 days after the cool down period.

#Fediverse を調べています。

1年のFediverseの進歩について纏めです。（別紙参照）

アプリで増えたのが、
ghost +7,904
wordpress +992
gotosocial +408

どれも #activitypub をサポートしたブログプラットホームで個人のページと言う感じ。 #wordpress と同じようなもの。

Fediverse のドメイン数が増えているのは、このおひとり様ブログの増加に起因しているようだ。

肝心の #Mastodon サーバー数は減少している。少し寂しい。

#prattohome #fediversescan #ghost #gotosocial

according to this as of December 2025 there were 1,632 #GoToSocial instances on the Fediverse, up 400 instances from the same time the year before:

https://prattohome.com/@ottoto2017/115869882336719794

and I keep telling people the sloth is stinky software that shouldn't be used