A step-by-step visual tutorial for newbies about installing and setting up the federated microblogging service GoToSocial
I don’t think I’m going to be spinning up a GoToSocial anytime soon, OP. But some good info none the less. Thank you for sharing.
Its perfectly fine not to. If you like the old twitter like interface and folling “people” rather than “topics” (like lemmy/piefed does), then you would like GTS. If the answer is no, keep using your fediverse that you like.
But yeah its relatively unique instructions specifically for Yunohost is what makes this article a good one.
Hope you have an awesome day!
YuNoHost’s implementation of GoToSocial has a “not totally free” license: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/gotosocial_ynh/blob/main/LICENSE
GoToSocial itself is AGPL 3.0 only, so I don’t know what’s up with YuNoHost there.
Cloudflare check. Yak.
Thank you for bringing this up! This is Elena, the author of the blog https://blog.elenarossini.com/.
My Ghost blog is being hosted by Magic Pages… when I signed up last year they had a fully European stack (Bunny CDN) - something that is incredibly important to me.
Recently they moved from BunnyCDN to Cloudflare to keep costs down (prices had skyrocketed). I have no saying in this, but I understand Jannis and his team.
Magic Pages takes care of all the software updates and offers amazing support (plus it would cost me 2x to self-host it… I made the calculations).
And for the record, my personal website - which I self-host - uses BunnyCDN: elenarossini.com
Thank you for your reply. But if you can self-host your personal website, why don’t you self-host Ghost?
Because Ghost now requires Docker and it’s way beyond my scope of expertise (I used to self-host a previous version with Ghost CLI - it will be sunset in the next version).
Ghost is also expensive to self-host, especially the newsletter part. Magic Pages does all the maintenance and updates for me for the price of what I used to pay just for the newsletter integration… and I don’t have to worry about a thing 🥲
If you have your own server, I can write you a bash script for installing Ghost and updating it when you run the script.
What do you say?
I appreciate the kind offer @airikr@lemmy.ml but no thank you.
I self-hosted Ghost for almost a year via Ghost CLI and it was (1) expensive (2) stressful - especially dealing with potential DDOS attacks and with the newsletter company Mailgun who handles the newsletter part (and would throw me all kinds of random error messages).
Self-hosting Ghost means spending TWICE as much and investing extra hours every month in maintenance.
With Magic Pages I save money and Jannis and his team take care of all the maintenance and updates and respond immediately if I run into any issues.
Yes I don’t like Cloudflare but I wouldn’t go to these lengths just to avoid it.
Aha. Then I understand your decision more :) Thank you for explaining.
and what will handle the breaking changes? and the release verification? what will update the database and the operating system, especially across major versions?
