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Veronica Explains@veronica@explains.social
Move slow and fix things.
I'm an unsponsored PeerTuber/YouTuber making videos about Linux, vintage tech, and owning your digital destiny. I'm also a nerdy musician in a nerdy band with other nerds you might know.
she/her
(I'm trying out GoToSocial, there could be bugs!)
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Joined: 2026-05-05 14:32:25
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Veronica Explains@veronica@explains.social (2026-06-17 04:04:06)
FWIW hosting GoToSocial has been pretty easy so far. The docs are top notch.
https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/v0.21.2/
I think this would be a great choice if you wanted to host yourself and maybe a few friends. It can run on a potato and does exactly what I want social media to do and little else. Shared blocklists are awesome.
Veronica Explains@veronica@explains.social (2026-05-21 22:58:55)
I genuinely believe that the Fediverse offers the best chance of recapturing the friendly, optimistic Internet I loved as a kid.
We've got flaws, sure. I've been critical of aspects of fedi culture, and will continue to do so.
But this place represents hope, and hope is where we start.
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Veronica Explains@veronica@explains.social (2026-05-10 07:07:38)
Anywho, I'm a big fan of GoToSocial after having used it for a few weeks, and I'd love it if we all threw them a few bucks over on OpenCollective (if you can spare it).
https://opencollective.com/gotosocial
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Veronica Explains@veronica@explains.social (2026-05-10 07:04:18)
Also, on the subject of GoToSocial, I switched my frontend to the Masto-FE fork by the GTS team, and it's a lot better for my Mastodon-addled brain. It very much behaves like the Mastodon frontend I know, but with some quality-of-life improvements which pair nicely with GTS.
https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/masto-fe-standalone
Veronica Explains@veronica@explains.social (2026-05-10 06:59:11)
I'm going to need to take my GoToSocial instance offline sometime in the next few days in order to test disaster recovery. That's really the last big piece before I decide if I'm going to port my followers from the @vkc account over.
So if I go dark, that's probably why!
Veronica Explains@veronica@explains.social (2026-05-05 06:33:19)
Today is a great day to learn about Debian.
It's far from perfect, but by golly once you learn it it's pretty sweet. Highlights:Everything is transparent, sometimes painfully soDebian isn't a companyYou still have apt, so deb packages still probably workFlatpak makes desktop use easyHate updates? Debian only releases a major new version every two years.Nobody is ever, ever, ever going to sell you "Debian Pro"If Ubuntu's got you down today, I dare you: give Debian a try.