ok for those of you with gotosocial running in docker. to move your running instance to another server, it actually is not too bad.

  1. stop gotosocial
  2. copy all files to another server (rsync -avh)
  3. change DNS (domain name, reverse proxy)
  4. restart gotosocial
  5. curse until DNS is updated to point to your new server

this instance is now running on my nixos server. whee!