gotosocial_ynh/doc/DOCS.md

Docs of the GoToSocial's package for YunoHost

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Administration

You can login with your admin user (the one automatically created during installation) to your-instance.com/admin to administrate your GoToSocial instance.
The source code of this administration panel is available on github.
The GTS admin panel documentation.

In this administration interface, you can configure the following things:

• The name of your instance and its description
• Your contact e-mail address
• The referring user
• Blocked domains (not to federate with) or allowed domains (for the allowlist federation mode)
• Custom emojis
• Moderation reports

Configuration

You can configure your instance using the config panel integrated in Yunohost, you will find it in the web admin interface of your Yunohost by following these steps:
Applications > GoToSocial > Config Panel

In this control panel you can configure the following things (non-exhaustive list):

• Account configuration :
  • Are registrations open?
  • Manual validation of registrations?
  • Required reason for registration?
  • Allow user custom CSS?
  • Custom CSS max length?
• Media configuration
  • Maximum image size
  • Maximum video size
  • Minimum number of characters for media descriptions
  • Maximum number of characters for media descriptions
  • Number of days media can be cached
• Post configuration
  • Maximum number of characters for a new post
  • Maximum number of characters in a Content Warning / subject of a new post
  • Maximum number of options for a poll
  • Maximum number of characters for a poll option
  • Maximum number of media that can be added to a post
• Instance config
  • Federation mode to use for this instance (blocklist / allowlist)
  • Landing page user
  • Exposed API options
• SMTP config
• Cache settings
• Advanced settings
  • SameSite attribute
  • Rate limit

Note: Do NOT edit the config.yaml file by hand. Always use this config panel instead. Otherwise your changes will be deleted at each update!

Command line (CLI)

To use the GoToSocial command line, you first need to place yourself in the folder of your instance:
cd /var/www/gotosocial/ or cd /var/www/gotosocial__x/ (where x is the installation number of your instance, in the case of multi-installation).
Feel free to refer to the GoToSocial command line documentation.

User creation

To create a new user, proceed as follows:

./gotosocial --config-path config.yaml admin account create --username some_username --email someuser@example.com --password 'SomeLongAndComplicatedPassword'

And to promote them as an administrator of your instance:

./gotosocial --config-path config.yaml admin account promote --username some_username

OpenID Connect

You can read the official GoToSocial documentation about OpenID Connect in support if you want.

To use OpenID Connect, the YunoHost admin must:

• Install the Dex package (note that your server must compile it, which can be resource-intensive)
• Configure Dex properly during the installation (all entered information will be used in the next step, so keep it in a safe place)
  • Domain: as you wish (may be a sub-domain of your GTS instance, like "dex.gts.example.com")
  • Path: only / if you wish to install it on a sub-domain of your instance, otherwise as you wish
  • Name of the app: "GoToSocial", "GTS-test", "YNH-GoToSocial" or anything that makes sense to you and does not contain a space (it will be used as "client ID" in the next step)
  • OIDC secret: a long and random password of at least 30 characters
  • Callback URI: gts.example.com/auth/callback by replacing the gts.example.com by the domain name of your GTS instance (without the https://!)
• Configure GTS using the config panel's OIDC form: Applications > GoToSocial > Config Panel > OpenID Connect settings
  • Activate OpenID Connect: true
  • Name of the OIDC IDP: "Dex" or any other name that makes sense
  • Skip the normal verification flow of tokens returned: keep on false ( never change to true unless you know what you're doing!)
  • OIDC issuer URI: the domain name to which you assigned Dex in the previous step, with the final slash /, e.g. https://dex.gts.example.com/ (this is NOT the URL of your GTS instance)
  • OIDC client ID: the app name defined at the Dex installation step (e.g. "GoToSocial", "GTS-test", "YNH-GoToSocial")
  • OIDC client secret: the long password randomly generated during Dex's installation step
  • Save, wait until GTS reboots and test!