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, licensing information &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

Missing:

• Media attachments (photos, videos)
• Home timeline, notifications timeline
• UI to post, reblog, favourite, follow and unfollow
• Turn URLs in posts into links
• Upload header image for profile page

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-related
• LOCAL_HTTPS set it to true if HTTPS works on your website. This is used to generate canonical URLs, which is also important when generating and parsing federation-related IDs
• HUB_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