GoToSocial
A lightweight ActivityPub server written in Go, small enough to self-host comfortably. It speaks the same protocol as Mastodon and is what runs jws.social.
I operate JWS Social with GoToSocial as another contribution to open-source federated networking.
- Age
- 5 years (since 2021)
Experience highlights
- Host an independent ActivityPub-compatible social presence.
- Use a lightweight open-source server for federated communication.
From the blog
Related writing
Articles from JWS News and DEV that relate to GoToSocial.
I like what I built post-2022
I wrote a few years ago about how I future-proofed my online identity by mirroring my writing in 2018 and then moved off of centralized social media in 2022. I now have my social media on JWS.Social instead of Twitter, I have my photos on Photos.JWS and JWS Pictures instead of I…
How to build a social media bot that can describe an image for you
Previously, we have looked at how to use Llama 3.2 Vision and Postman to describe an image and how to use Llama 3.2 Vision and Node to describe an image. In today’s post, I want to build a social media bot as a front-end for the same Llama 3.2 Vision model. In August, we looked…
Let’s build an AI-driven social media bot!
In June, I wrote about creating a private fediverse instance. For JWS Social, I am running GoToSocial hosted on K&T Host. GoToSocial supports decentralized social networking by adhering to ActivityPub, a protocol that enables interoperability across platforms like Mastodon, Flip…
I created a private fediverse instance
Back during “funemployment“, I created JWS Social. It is a GoToSocial instance that I am hosting with K&T Host. I already have a Mastodon instance (Toot Works) that I am hosting with Masto.host but there are 83 users on there and I wanted something that was just mine…
Finding related thoughts…