Planning to set up my own fedi instance soon, what's the current status of GoToSocial in terms of usability, featureset, compatibility, and so on?
@joepie91 Pretty good, I'd say the major thing missing is silencing instances (as oppose to suspension). It's stable and reasonably feature-rich. And it has very good reply fetching on threads so that it doesn't cause the usual fedi problem of replies from unknown instances not propagaing properly.
@joepie91 featurewise: interaction controls and sandboxed media preview generation just landed, the main big missing feature at this point is message edits, which is coming in the next release
the main usability downside is that normal clients (enafore, phanpy, etc) all do regular timeline stuff but you still need a separate GTS-specific web UI to do some operations including editing your profile
compatibility is top-notch; haven't run into an issue yet
@technomancy I already don't have message editing now so I probably wouldn't miss that 🙃
Thanks!
@joepie91 oh my god it's been so long since I looked at a masto 3.x URL I forgot what it was like to have toots that load quickly
@technomancy @joepie91 Ah yeah, post editting is a big one too. I didn't think of that one because Semaphore does not support it.
long list of current caveats
@joepie91 current caveats (may be resolved eventually later, quite limited):
no editing domain blocks (only re-creating maybe)
no mute list importing
no "silence" domain blocks
no editing posts
following peertube accounts is still broken (upstream)
no list importing
can't search bookmarked/favorited/boosted posts
no link verification checks
mastodon users can't resolve private/DM posts via searching URLs (GtS has decided for upstream (mastodon) to fix this this, but no one on upstream has cared or responded and a fix is unlikely to come anytime soon)
those are just off of my github subscriptions (with my personal wants bias included), don't have much to say about everything else
@joepie91 I think it depends a lot on specific feature requirements. I've been happy with the feature set for a few years but they've implemented a lot of good stuff recently that might tip the scales for some people.