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README.md
Mastodon
Mastodon is a federated microblogging engine. An alternative implementation of the GNU Social project. Based on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon.
Current status of the project is early development. Documentation &co will be added later
Status
- GNU Social users can follow Mastodon users
- Mastodon users can follow GNU Social users
- Retweets, favourites, mentions, replies work in both directions
- Public pages for profiles and single statuses
- Sign up, login, forgotten passwords and changing password
- Mentions and URLs converted to links in statuses
Missing:
- Media attachments (photos, videos)
- Home timeline, notifications timeline
- UI to post, reblog, favourite, follow and unfollow
- Upload header image for profile page
- Deleting statuses, deletion propagation
Configuration
LOCAL_DOMAIN
should be the domain/hostname of your instance. This is absolutely required as it is used for generating unique IDs for everything federation-relatedLOCAL_HTTPS
set it totrue
if HTTPS works on your website. This is used to generate canonical URLs, which is also important when generating and parsing federation-related IDsHUB_URL
should be the URL of the PubsubHubbub service that your instance is going to use. By default it is the open service of Superfeedr