GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang.
GoToSocial provides a lightweight, customizable, and safety-focused entryway into the Fediverse, and is comparable to (but distinct from) existing projects such as Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, and PixelFed.
With GoToSocial, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles, without being tracked or advertised to.
Because GoToSocial uses the ActivityPub protocol, you can Keep in touch not only with people on your home server, but with people all over the Fediverse, seamlessly!
Full support for modern, elegant apps like Tusky and Pinafore.
Tusky | Pinafore |
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You should be able to choose how your posts can be interacted with:
- Local-only posts.
- Rebloggable/boostable toggle.
- 'Likeable' toggle.
- 'Replyable' toggle.
- Adjustable post length.
- Media upload size settings.
Built-in, automatic support for secure HTTPS with LetsEncrypt.
Plays nice with lower-powered machines like Raspberry Pi, old laptops and tiny VPSes.
No external dependencies apart from a database. Just download the binary + assets (or Docker container), and run.
Protect your data.
Strict privacy enforcement for posts and strict blocking logic.
Import and export allowlists and denylists. Subscribe to community-created blocklists (think Adblocker, but for federation!).
- 'Normal' federation; discover new servers.
- Allowlist-only federation; choose which servers you talk to.
- Zero federation; keep your server private.
These cool things will be implemented if time allows (because we really want them):
- Groups and group posting!
- Reputation-based 'slow' federation.
- Community decision making for federation and moderation actions.
- User-selectable custom templates for rendering public posts:
- Twitter-style
- Blogpost
- Gallery
- Etc.
One of the key differences between GoToSocial and other federated server projects is that GoToSocial doesn't include an integrated client front-end (ie., a webapp).
Instead, like Matrix.org's Synapse project, it provides only a server implementation, some static pages, and a well-documented API. On top of this API, developers are free to build any front-end implementation or mobile application that they wish.
Because the server implementation is as generic and flexible/configurable as possible, GoToSocial provides the basis for many different types of social media experience, whether Tumblr-like, Facebook-like, or Twitter-like.
Work began on the project around February 2021, and the project is still in prerelease.
At this point, GoToSocial is already deployable and very useable, and it federates cleanly with most other Fediverse servers.
For a detailed view on what's implemented and what's not, and progress made towards a first v0.1.0 (beta) release, see here.
Proper documentation for running and maintaining GoToSocial will be forthcoming in the first release.
For now (if you want to run it pre-alpha, like a beast), check out the quick and dirty getting started guide.
For questions and comments, you can reach out to tobi on the Fediverse here, mail [email protected], or join our Matrix channel at #gotosocial:superseriousbusiness.org
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For bugs and feature requests, please check to see if there's already an issue, and if not, open one or use one of the above channels to make a request (if you don't have a Github account).
The following libraries and frameworks are used by GoToSocial, with gratitude ๐
- buckket/go-blurhash; used for generating image blurhashes. GPL-3.0 License.
- coreos/go-oidc; OIDC client library. Apache-2.0 License.
- gin-gonic/gin; speedy router engine. MIT License.
- gin-contrib/cors; Gin CORS middleware. MIT License.
- gin-contrib/sessions; Gin sessions middleware. MIT License
- gin-contrib/static; Gin static page middleware. MIT License
- go-fed/activity; Golang ActivityPub/ActivityStreams library. BSD-3-Clause License.
- go-fed/httpsig; secure HTTP signature library. BSD-3-Clause License.
- russross/blackfriday; markdown parsing for statuses. Simplified BSD License.
- go-pg/pg; Postgres ORM library. BSD-2-Clause License.
- google/uuid; UUID generation. BSD-3-Clause License
- gorilla/websocket; Websocket connectivity. BSD-2-Clause License.
- h2non/filetype; filetype checking. MIT License.
- microcosm-cc/bluemonday; HTML user-input sanitization. BSD-3-Clause License.
- mvdan/xurls; URL parsing regular expressions. BSD-3-Clause License.
- nfnt/resize; convenient image resizing. ISC License.
- oklog/ulid; sequential, database-friendly ID generation. Apache-2.0 License.
- sirupsen/logrus; logging. MIT License.
- stretchr/testify; test framework. MIT License.
- superseriousbusiness/exifremove forked from scottleedavis/go-exif-remove; EXIF data removal. MIT License.
- superseriousbusiness/oauth2 forked from go-oauth2/oauth2; oauth server framework and token handling. MIT License.
- urfave/cli; command-line interface framework. MIT License.
- wagslane/go-password-validator; password strength validation. MIT License.
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Currently, this project is funded using Liberapay, to put bread on the table while work continues on it.
If you want to sponsor this project, you can do so here! <3
GoToSocial is licensed under the GNU AGPL v3 LICENSE.
Copyright (C) 2021 the GoToSocial Authors.