@hanscees GoToSocial is powered by ActivityPub so you can of course follow a GtS account from Mastodon. Like mine: @elena

@paulk I always say that GoToSocial is the hidden gem of the fediverse

@pi_tinkerer_101 disclaimer: I use a VPS, so I'm not exposing my home server to the web... and I never used Certbot because YunoHost has a built in SSL cert installation with Let's Encrypt

@_elena Gotcha! YunoHost makes SSL fun, but when you do roll your own reverse proxy someday, Certbot’s wizardry is worth the trip. Lem Priestley’s https://github.com/letsencrypt/ACME-Client was my salvation ️ Need debug help? My charcuterie board of Docker logs (and 40 coffee mugs) is open.

@_elena I'm going to find a way to play with it, if only just for the experience.

Your blog posts are valuable for this (bookmark, bookmark, bookmark, folder full of bookmarks!).

@paulk aw thank you Paul! Let me know how it goes... GoToSocial is truly amazing

@_elena @elena cool. And you having an admin account probably means there can be other accounts as well right? So you van host family and ftiends?
I am just trying to Asses if I set up gotosocial, what functionality it will and wont have in practice interacting with mastodonten users. Theres little documentation I could find on that.

@_elena

Awesome!

@matteo @_elena Thanks, I know thuis, but I also know standard protocols like ipsec and email not working together because of implementation errors, version differences, or enduser applications.
My Android app doesnt seem to work with her server for instance
I think its nice, if you write a blog for novices to be clear on what functionality does or does not work by using examples.
Nevertheless its on my bucketlist to try out, probably on a vm in my #homelab
A very lightweight #mastodon server, thats not technally mastodon, seems usefull

@seedsignal @_elena In the early days of the internet (afaik, from reading other blogs. Romania never had this), some ISPs used to include a small hosting space with your internet subscription.

Also, I don't think Neocities / Nekoweb counts as "social media" with those laws. Soo... you know...

@_elena It really is.

@paulk

@hanscees yes of course! typically it works best for solo accounts or a small family cluster. The documentation is actually pretty great: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/v0.22.1/

@crittero @_elena

Indeed. Was a Mindspring baby but could have rolled CRL as I was co-sysing INDEX in those days.

@patpro ooooooh this is BRILLIANT advice! I’ll mention it in the next chapter, thank you @hanscees

@nanianmichaels @elena @_elena its probably my app on my Android tablet , on my phone it works with tusky

Unfortunately, most laws are either worded so vaguely that it's up to the regulator's discreation (the Online Services Act in the UK for example) or explicitly apply to sites of all sizes and maybe have some handwaving language along the lines of requiring networks to deploy age verification methods that are "commercially reasonable".

It's certainly not a good situation, and anxiety is very warranted, but I don't think we're necessarily doomed. In the short term, VPNs are a thing and can buy us some time (although as we're seeing in the UK, age-limiting VPNs is the next step).

What I do think is that we have to mobilize to fight these kinds of bad internet bills more effectively. Here's a thread with some initial thoughts and a request for other suggestions - https://neuromatch.social/@jdp23/116967043175194824

@joergi @_elena