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

• Set up Docker Swarm and [abra]
• Deploy [coop-cloud/traefik]
• abra app new gotosocial
• abra app config <app-domain>
• abra app deploy <app-domain>

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).

Database

Sqlite

This is the default, nothing needs to be changed unless you know there are sqlite options you want to change.

Postgres

You will need to generate a secret for the db password

abra app secret generate <app-domain> db_password v1

Then uncomment the following line

COMPOSE_FILE="$COMPOSE_FILE:compose.postgres.yml"

Add your first account

Create the account

abra app run <app-domain> app ./gotosocial admin account create --username <user-name> --email <user-email> --password '<a-secure-password>'

Make them an admin

abra app run <app-domain> 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, if you don't know what this means then please consult your mail service provider.

abra app secret insert <app-domain> smtp_password v1 <oidc-secret>

Uncomment and populate these environment variables

#COMPOSE_FILE="$COMPOSE_FILE:compose.smtp.yml"
#GTS_SMTP_HOST=
#GTS_SMTP_PORT=
#GTS_SMTP_USERNAME=
#GTS_SMTP_FROM=

OIDC

Add your OIDC secret

abra app secret insert <app-domain> oidc_secret v1 <oidc-secret>

Uncomment and populate these environment variables

#COMPOSE_FILE="$COMPOSE_FILE:compose.oidc.yml"
#GTS_OIDC_ENABLED=false
#GTS_OIDC_IDP_NAME=""
#GTS_OIDC_ISSUER=""
#GTS_OIDC_CLIENT_ID=""
#GTS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET=""

Optionally also uncomment these environment variables to automate setting up allowed groups for admins and users

#GTS_OIDC_LINK_EXISTING=false
#GTS_OIDC_ALLOWED_GROUPS=[]
#GTS_OIDC_ADMIN_GROUPS=[]

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.