gotosocial

Light ActivityPub server compatible with Mastodon's client API, designed for small to medium sized deployments.

• Category: Apps
• Status: 3
• Image: gotosocial, 4, upstream
• Healthcheck: Yes
• Backups: No
• Email: 3
• Tests: No
• SSO: 3 (OIDC)

Quick start

• abra app new gotosocial
• abra app config <app-name>
• abra app deploy <app-name>

Note: The initial startup commonly takes longer than the allotted time for setup, please give it some time to start up (probably 2-3 minutes).

Add your first account

• abra app run <app-name> app ./gotosocial admin account create --username <user-name> --email <user-email> --password '<a-secure-password>'
• Make them an admin: abra app run <app-name> app ./gotosocial admin account promote --username <user-name>

Federation mode

You will want to consider either using an allowlist or a blacklist for federation, this is configurable using GTS_INSTANCE_FEDERATION_MODE which is set to allowlist by default meaning you will have to explicitly allow federation with other instances via the settings panel https://your-domain.com/settings.

SMTP

Add your SMTP password Note: Only STARTTLS is supported currently

• abra app secret insert <app-name> smtp_password v1 <oidc-secret>

OIDC

Add your OIDC secret

• abra app secret insert <app-name> oidc_secret v1 <oidc-secret>

Further reading & commands

Please refer to https://docs.gotosocial.org some of the commands run will require redeploying the app.

If you need to run any particular command make sure to append ./ to the command gotosocial as it is not in the contianer's PATH.