Post #4006043

2026-07-22 06:52 UTC

Good morning Fedi friends, I have been feeling a rising anxiety over the state of the open web and the fediverse - after seeing efforts by politicians all over the world (in Europe too!) to introduce age verification laws for social media. My way of coping? Teaching people how to self-host their own Fediverse profile (using the superb #GoToSocial) via #YunoHost. Chapter 1 in this series is available here: 🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-gotosocial-part-1-installation-and-set-up/ #resist #blog #ActivityPub #selfhosting

Replies (8)

@Pettet8@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 07:30

@_elena@mastodon.social The politicians are putting the cart before the horse - treating the effect and not treating the cause. There is worlldwide sufficient legislation in place to ban the bad actors from the social media without restricting our kids access and bad content. The politicians again are not enforcing the laws they have put into place....

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@kkarhan@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 11:18

@_elena@mastodon.social also teach people to use #XMPP + #OMEMO over @torproject@mastodon.social / #Tor…

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@MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services 2026-07-22 10:12

@_elena@mastodon.social Je partage les mêmes inquiétudes et je crois aussi beaucoup à l'auto-hébergement. La législation devrait s'appliquer aux réseaux centralisés et dirigés par des algorithmes et exempter les réseaux décentralisés comme Mastodon. J'ai un réseau d'amis dont les noms, les adresses et le no de tel. sont listés dans un calepin. Je communique librement avec eux par téléphone, courriel, par la poste si ça me change, sans l'intervention d'un multimilliardaire. (...)

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@hanscees@ieji.de 2026-07-22 09:55

@_elena@mastodon.social I am a bit confused. Can I follow your gotosocial account with my mastodon account? I dont understand how its not mastodon, but still fediverse. Can you follow mastodon accounts with your gotosocial account? If I tap on @elena my mastodon app gives an error

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@paulk@writing.exchange 2026-07-22 07:30

@_elena@mastodon.social This is a very precious post. I'm not the selfhosting kind but this tutorial is tempting... I may be running ahead but do you know if it's possible to import existing contacts to GoToSocial? (A friend also uses it and is very happy with it.)

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@sherold@mastodon.online 2026-07-22 07:38

@_elena@mastodon.social Thank you, Elena. 🌻

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@joergi@chaos.social 2026-07-22 07:50

@_elena@mastodon.social this helps for the individual - but not for the once running an instance for others.... I really hope this social media ban, like in France now, is only "for the big ones". In theory: the Fediverse is a big one too: - 13.8M Accounts in total - but only 1,141,317 active Acounts. (source: @fedidb@mastodon.social) If the numbers are for each server, most of us don't have to suffer anything. If it's the (complete) Fediverse, and it makes sense to see it that way, we are doomed too.

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@pi_tinkerer_101@mastodon.buzz 2026-07-22 07:53

@_elena@mastodon.social Thanks for the series! I'm on Part 1, and as I try to install GoToSocial on my Pi, your tips on domain configs are *gold*. Any thoughts on handling Certbot SSL certs with my wildcard cert? Also, have you encountered issues with reverse proxies on YunoHost? Happy to trade horror stories! 🔥

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