{
  aspartame.modules = [
    (
      {
        pkgs,
        config,
        ...
      }: {
        services.gotosocial = {
          enable = true;
          package = pkgs.gts;
          setupPostgresqlDB = false;
          environmentFile = "${config.sops.templates."gts.env.secrets.yaml".path}";

          settings = {
            # # most of these are the defaults but i'm writing them here anyways
            ### General config
            log-level = "info";
            log-db-queries = "false";
            log-client-ip = "true";
            log-timestamp-format = "2006-01-02T15:04:05.000Z07:00";
            application-name = "RunFromSocial";
            landing-page-user = "root";
            host = "gts.collective-conciousness.monster";
            account-domain = "";
            protocol = "https";
            bind-address = "127.0.0.1";
            port = 8080;
            trusted-proxies = [
              "127.0.0.1/32"
              "::1"
            ];

            ### Database config - still have to set this up.
            db-type = "postgres";
            db-address = "10.24.1.9";
            db-port = "5432";
            #            db-password = ""; # commented out because it is being passed through env files. # GTS_DB_PASSWORD
            db-database = "gtsdb";
            db-user = "gts";
            db-tls-mode = "disable"; # will probably want to change this at some point ?
            db-tls-ca-cert = "";
            db-max-open-conns-multiplier = 8;
            db-postgres-connection-string = "";
            cache.memory-target = "500MiB";

            ### Web config
            # web-template-base-dir = "/var/gts/web/template/";
            # web-asset-base-dir = "/var/gts/web/assets/";

            ### Instance config
            instance-languages = [
              "en"
              "fr"
              "ro"
              "zh"
            ];
            instance-federation-mode = "allowlist";
            instance-federation-spam-filter = false;
            instance-expose-peers = false;
            instance-expose-suspended = false;
            instance-expose-suspended-web = false;
            instance-expose-public-timeline = false;
            instance-deliver-to-shared-inboxes = true;
            instance-inject-mastodon-version = false;

            ### Accounts config
            accounts-registration-open = false;
            accounts-reason-required = true;
            accounts-allow-custom-css = true;
            accounts-custom-css-length = 10000;

            ### Media config
            media-local-max-size = "1GiB";
            media-remote-max-size = "50MiB";
            media-description-min-chars = 36;
            media-description-max-chars = 16200;
            media-emoji-local-max-size = "128KiB"; # may need to increase this in the future.
            media-emoji-remote-max-size = "256KiB";
            media-ffmpeg-pool-size = 2;
            media-remote-cache-days = 7;
            media-cleanup-from = "01:00";
            media-cleanup-every = "24h";

            ### Storage config
            storage-backend = "local";
            storage-local-base-path = "/var/gts/storage";
            # ommited settings related to s3

            ### Statuses config
            statuses-max-chars = 8000;
            statuses-poll-max-options = 10;
            statuses-poll-option-max-chars = 100;
            statuses-media-max-files = 12;

            ### Syslog config
            syslog-enabled = true;
            syslog-protocol = "";
            syslog-address = "";
          };
        };
      }
    )
  ];
}