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Foxes in Love 8/31/2022
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Hello everyone! We just released GoToSocial v0.4.0 Fancy Sloth, the fifteenth alpha release of GoToSocial! 🦥

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.4.0

This release contains a whole bunch of fancy new stuff, bugfixes, and updates :fireworks:

Highlights:

We have a user settings panel now! The panel is located at https://[your-instance.com]/user. The settings panel allows you to add/update a Bio, set your Display Name, upload a Profile Picture, and more! The user guide for the settings panel is right here -> https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/user_panel/

The GtS web frontend for profiles and statuses now uses a lightbox for displaying images. This is much smoother than the previous implementation, which just opened the image in a new tab. If you prefer to browse without javascript enabled, the frontend will fall back to the old behavior :)

Better markdown posting support: you can set your default post format using the user settings panel, in order to produce richer posts using markdown. Check the docs for more -> https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/posts/#input-types

You can now clear old notifications!

Lots and lots of tweaks and bugfixes, check the detailed changelog for full notes.

Migration Notes:

This release contains a few database migrations, which will run automatically when you’ve started up the new version. Please allow somewhere between 0 and 120 seconds for these migrations to run, and don’t interrupt them.

What is GoToSocial?

GoToSocial is an open-source, ActivityPub compatible, federated social media server. It’s easy to install, lightweight, and perfect for small servers 🦥

If you want to support the project and help us pay our contributors more regularly make sure to check out our Open Collective.

We offer few, but highly customizable tiers!

One of my personal favorites is the €12/ year, representing €1/month (but lumped together to reduce fees!)

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial

#Crowdfunding #OpenCollective #GTS #GoToSocial

not bad! also where did 5 hours go

Kinda exciting to see some people from cybre.space trying out GoToSocial. In the spirit of being honest + straightforward, I just wanna make it known to everyone that:

GoToSocial is still in ALPHA not even beta yet, so expect bugs. Many bugs! It’s constantly being patched and updated. Look at all these issues!

There’s lots of stuff missing still. Hashtags don’t work properly yet. Polls don’t work. You can’t upload videos. All that stuff is on the roadmap document, which you can read right here -> https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/blob/main/ROADMAP.md

Despite all that, it’s pretty neat software imo. It might be nowhere near finished but it’s already zippy and doesn’t use a lot of resources, and you can use it for day-to-day posting no problem.

SO! It’s awesome if you wanna try it out and help find + fix broken stuff, that’s the whole point of alpha after all 😎 But don’t expect a 1:1 smooth transition from Mastodon to GoToSocial, cuz that’s probably not gonna happen! If you have a low tolerance for jank and just want something that straight up works, you’re best off looking for other software at this point ;)