GoToSocial setup guide

Note: This guide is currently a work in progress. These instructions may not be complete, and are subject to change.

Welcome to this guide for putting together a Website League node! Hosting a webserver on the public Internet can be a bit daunting, but hopefully this guide will help guide you through what's necessary to do so. There may be parts of the guide which are hard to understand, but try to take it slow, and if you need help, there's folks on the Discord who are willing to give assistance (the author of this guide included.) It's in this guide's author's opinion that everyone deserves to be able to have their own slice of the Internet, and knowledge should not be a barrier to that.

There's a few parts to setting up any webserver that uses ActivityPub - you have to obtain a domain name and a server, link the domain to the server, and then set up and configure your server to run your software of choice.