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Anyone have experience using #Snac2 for a small activitypub instance? Currently I use #gotosocial which is great but I'm curious about other options. Running a second instance with a different domain for friends or a second account is appealing to me.
Anyone have experience using #Snac2 for a small activitypub instance? Currently I use #gotosocial which is great but I'm curious about other options. Running a second instance with a different domain for friends or a second account is appealing to me.
Congratulations to the newest batch of @NGIZero fediverse ⁂ projects to receive grants! Seeing that 20% of the 29 projects in this round are #fediverse projects is exciting:
#Flohmarkt (https://nlnet.nl/project/Flohmarkt)
#Hubzilla (https://nlnet.nl/project/Hubzilla-Superblock)
#GoToSocial (https://nlnet.nl/project/GoToSocial-1.0)
#Drupal ( @drupal, @swentelhttps://nlnet.nl/project/Drupal-AP-recipes)
#Mirlo ( @mirlohttps://nlnet.nl/project/Mirlo)
#GoActivityPub ( @mariusorhttps://nlnet.nl/project/GoActivityPub)
Here's the announcement https://mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero/115384471765057337
Mastodon is not the only microblogging platform on the Fediverse. One of the most popular alternatives is @gotosocial, which is more lightweight and has more user safety features.
You don't have to be a techy person to run your own GoToSocial server. There are managed hosting companies which do all the techy stuff for you and it's included in their hosting fee:
GoToSocial on FediHost
https://fedihost.co/hosting/gotosocial
GoToSocial on Communick
https://communick.com/gotosocial
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251016-selection-NGI0CommonsFund.html
The blurb for what we'll be working on in 2026 is as follows:
GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Go. It complements existing ActivityPub implementations by providing a lightweight, customizable entryway into decentralized social media hosting. GoToSocial places a high value on ease of deployment and maintenance; this means low system requirements, minimal external dependencies, and clear documentation. GoToSocial empowers self-hosting newcomers to deploy small, personalized instances, from which they connect to others across the Fediverse, using low-powered equipment lying around at home. In this project, the GoToSocial team adds new moderation and federation features to GoToSocial, bringing it towards a version 1.0 release (projected end 2026).
Translated to something more concrete, that means we're going to be working on implementing: relay support, instance limits and mutes, old status cleanup, more easily configurable memory usage, tracking of unreachable instances, better search, and a bunch of performance improvements to keep GtS running well on lower-spec computers. And of course, fixing bugs, and likely implementing a few other cheeky features between the soup and the potatoes (kim is interested in looking at quote posts, for example, and tobi will likely do some silly things like the recent ListenBrainz integration).
If things turn out favorably, this chunk of work will bring us towards calling a proper v1.0.0 release by the end of 2026. Ie., we'll finally be able to say "it's good enough to recommend to people".
Thanks for reading! 🏳️🌈 
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https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251016-selection-NGI0CommonsFund.html
The blurb for what we'll be working on in 2026 is as follows:
GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Go. It complements existing ActivityPub implementations by providing a lightweight, customizable entryway into decentralized social media hosting. GoToSocial places a high value on ease of deployment and maintenance; this means low system requirements, minimal external dependencies, and clear documentation. GoToSocial empowers self-hosting newcomers to deploy small, personalized instances, from which they connect to others across the Fediverse, using low-powered equipment lying around at home. In this project, the GoToSocial team adds new moderation and federation features to GoToSocial, bringing it towards a version 1.0 release (projected end 2026).
Translated to something more concrete, that means we're going to be working on implementing: relay support, instance limits and mutes, old status cleanup, more easily configurable memory usage, tracking of unreachable instances, better search, and a bunch of performance improvements to keep GtS running well on lower-spec computers. And of course, fixing bugs, and likely implementing a few other cheeky features between the soup and the potatoes (kim is interested in looking at quote posts, for example, and tobi will likely do some silly things like the recent ListenBrainz integration).
If things turn out favorably, this chunk of work will bring us towards calling a proper v1.0.0 release by the end of 2026. Ie., we'll finally be able to say "it's good enough to recommend to people".
Thanks for reading! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251016-selection-NGI0CommonsFund.html
The blurb for what we'll be working on in 2026 is as follows:
GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Go. It complements existing ActivityPub implementations by providing a lightweight, customizable entryway into decentralized social media hosting. GoToSocial places a high value on ease of deployment and maintenance; this means low system requirements, minimal external dependencies, and clear documentation. GoToSocial empowers self-hosting newcomers to deploy small, personalized instances, from which they connect to others across the Fediverse, using low-powered equipment lying around at home. In this project, the GoToSocial team adds new moderation and federation features to GoToSocial, bringing it towards a version 1.0 release (projected end 2026).
Translated to something more concrete, that means we're going to be working on implementing: relay support, instance limits and mutes, old status cleanup, more easily configurable memory usage, tracking of unreachable instances, better search, and a bunch of performance improvements to keep GtS running well on lower-spec computers. And of course, fixing bugs, and likely implementing a few other cheeky features between the soup and the potatoes (kim is interested in looking at quote posts, for example, and tobi will likely do some silly things like the recent ListenBrainz integration).
If things turn out favorably, this chunk of work will bring us towards calling a proper v1.0.0 release by the end of 2026. Ie., we'll finally be able to say "it's good enough to recommend to people".
Thanks for reading! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Congratulations to the newest batch of @NGIZero fediverse ⁂ projects to receive grants! Seeing that 20% of the 29 projects in this round are #fediverse projects is exciting:
#Flohmarkt (https://nlnet.nl/project/Flohmarkt)
#Hubzilla (https://nlnet.nl/project/Hubzilla-Superblock)
#GoToSocial (https://nlnet.nl/project/GoToSocial-1.0)
#Drupal ( @drupal, @swentelhttps://nlnet.nl/project/Drupal-AP-recipes)
#Mirlo ( @mirlohttps://nlnet.nl/project/Mirlo)
#GoActivityPub ( @mariusorhttps://nlnet.nl/project/GoActivityPub)
Here's the announcement https://mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero/115384471765057337
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes. This is not a production site. There are no backups for now. Data, including profiles may be wiped without notice. No service or other guarantees expressed or implied.
