Hey Team @gotosocial@gts.superseriousbusiness.org I notice that browsing to;
... gives an error page (see screenshot) rather than redirecting to what appears to be the active subdomain;
This is small potatoes in the greater scheme of things. But it is taken as a bad omen by people considering whether to try out GtS;
https://www.loomio.com/d/skQB64Lb/shall-we-consider-gotosocial
@strypey Thanks for the heads-up, it looks like the hosting service we use is currently having difficulties.
There's a bit of incorrect information in the thread you link to btw:
Octodon wasn't using GtS before it shut down, it was using Glitch soc or some other fork of Mastodon.
GoToSocial indeed doesn't come with its own client app, but it's Mastodon-API-compatible, so most apps that work with Mastodon will work with GoToSocial (we list some of the recommended ones on every instance's "login" page -- https://gts.superseriousbusiness.org/login). GtS does have an HTML web frontend for a user's profile though, as you can see on the profile page of the official account.
Follows and followers can both be migrated to GtS (https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/v0.19.1/user_guide/migration/). There's also a separate tool called Slurp that can be used to import a Mastodon archive into GoToSocial, allowing people to functionally migrate their posts (https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/v0.19.1/user_guide/importing_posts/).
You don't say ; ) I'm mostly a lurker in that community, so I'll let them talk some more and see if they figure all that out for themselves. But if not, I'll post some clarifications on anything they're still confused about. As well as making the argument that the best way to compare the backend performance of Mastodon and GtS is to stand up a GtS service and try it.
Also that @mentioning what I believe in the official account doesn't seem to work (is my account or the service it's on blocked?)
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