https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/0b6938dd-c20f-4077-95a1-21a9ad083c0b GoToSocial is a lightweight fediverse server of your own. Hosted on ElfHosted, it's ready to federate from day one, with no server at home. Run GoToSocial with ElfHosted: a social server needs an address the whole fediverse can reach, and yours is ready from day one, with no server at home to look after. We run it for you, keep it updated and look after the secure address. Add the custom domain add-on and your name lives on a domain you own, while the ElfHosted address keeps working too; set it before you start following people, because the domain becomes part of your identity. GoToSocial itself is the work of the GoToSocial project. What is GoToSocial? A lightweight ActivityPub fediverse server: you post from it, and people on Mastodon and other fediverse servers can follow you. No ads and no tracking, and because it's Mastodon compatible, you use it from the apps you like; it is mostly a server, designed to be used through those apps. With your own domain, you can move your server elsewhere one day, data and all. You create your account with the GoToSocial CLI shortcut on your ElfHosted dashboard. Start hosted GoToSocial with a 7-day trial. It's backed up daily, and you can restore it yourself whenever you need to. Stuck? Sam, ElfHosted's AI helper, checks your actual apps, tells you what's wrong, and asks you before fixing it. GoToSocial is open source; ElfHosted is not affiliated with the GoToSocial project. You can support the project through the links below. Stuck on something Sam can't answer? Real people from the ElfHosted team are on Discord across every time zone, in a family-friendly, carefully moderated server. It's one place for support for every app you run with us, handled by professionals, instead of a GitHub issue, docs that may be out of date, or yet another Discord per project. Unlike a generic chatbot, which guesses and overcomplicates, Sam is tuned on these apps and the way we run them: he safely reads your actual logs and proposes a fix, and nothing changes until you approve it. Start a 7-day trial: https://store.elfhosted.com/product/gotosocial/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=gotosocial GoToSocial docs: https://docs.elfhosted.com/app/gotosocial/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=gotosocial ElfHosted: https://elfhosted.com/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=gotosocial Custom domain add-on: https://store.elfhosted.com/product/gotosocial-custom-domain-addon/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=gotosocial Support GoToSocial on OpenCollective: https://opencollective.com/gotosocial Support GoToSocial on Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/GoToSocial Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:16 What is GoToSocial 0:29 Running GoToSocial yourself 0:55 Hosted GoToSocial 1:11 Use your own domain About ElfHosted: we run open-source apps for you, kept updated and looked after by elves, so you get the apps without the upkeep. [s]elf-hosting without [s]uffering. https://elfhosted.com?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video #GoToSocial #Fediverse #ElfHosted Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:58:35 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.elfhosted.com https://video.elfhosted.com/lazy-static/avatars/0ad9ef41-d7cc-447f-b89c-24dcddbb6422.png https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/0b6938dd-c20f-4077-95a1-21a9ad083c0b All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.elfhosted.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.