January 8, 2025
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January 8, 2025
Elk: A nimble Mastodon web client
In order to host Elk yourself you can use the provided Dockerfile to build a container with elk. Be aware, that Elk only loads properly if the connection is done via SSL/TLS. The Docker container itself does not provide any SSL/TLS handling. You’ll have to add this bit yourself. One could put Elk behind popular reverse proxies with SSL Handling like Traefik, NGINX etc.
An alternative to Phanpy, which also works with GoToSocial instances. At least this looks more robust than Phanpy. Gotta deploy one soon.
Edit: Wasn’t able to deploy successfully. Sad.
January 7, 2025
Fediverse Explorer
Browse most recent public posts across the fediverse by hashtag.
This is a great project. Lots of posts I’ve discovered from using this hashtag search. I know the source is on Github, but I wish this is easily selfhostable complete with Docker and compose documentation.
See Github page and blog post.
Media Caching - GoToSocial Documentation
GoToSocial uses the configured storage backend in order to store media (images, videos, etc) uploaded to the instance by local users, as well as to cache media attached to posts and profiles federated in from remote instances.
GoToSocial total storage space usage currently stands at 3.9GB. If this gets out of hand, I may need to add in the environment
variable of the compose.yml
file:
GTS_MEDIA_REMOTE_CACHE_DAYS: 2