gotosocial_ynh/doc/DISCLAIMER.md

GoToSocial is still in alpha and may be unstable. You can read the roadmap to check the progress of GoToSocial's features.

GoToSocial require a dedicated domain (or subdomain) name, for example: gotosocial.example.com

This package is not-working SSO (single-sign on) or LDAP integration.
You will have a separate account from the rest of your Yunohost server, potentially with a different username and password.

GoToSocial does not provide a user interface.
You will need to use a Mastodon-compatible client such as Tusky on Android, Feditext for iOS or an instance of Semaphore on the Web.

Things to know

Administration

You can login with your admin user (the one automatically created at the instalaltion) 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
• Its description
• Your contact e-mail address
• The referring user
• Blocked domains (not to federate with)

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