microblog.pub

A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog.

Instances in the wild:

• microblog.pub (follow to get updated about the project)
• hexa.ninja (theme customization example)
• testing.microblog.pub
• Irish Left Archive (another theme customization example)

There are still some rough edges, but the server is mostly functional.

Features

• Implements the ActivityPub server to server protocol
  • Federate with all the other popular ActivityPub servers like Pleroma, PixelFed, PeerTube, Mastodon...
  • Consume most of the content types available (notes, articles, videos, pictures...)
• Exposes your ActivityPub profile as a minimalist microblog
  • Author notes in Markdown, with code highlighting support
  • Dedicated section for articles/blog posts (enabled when the first article is posted)
• Lightweight
  • Uses SQLite, and Python 3.10+
  • Can be deployed on small VPS
• Privacy-aware
  • EXIF metadata (like GPS location) are stripped before storage
  • Every media is proxied through the server
  • Strict access control for your outbox enforced via HTTP signature
• No Javascript
  • The UI is pure HTML/CSS
  • Except tiny bits of hand-written JS in the note composer to insert emoji and add alt text to images
• IndieWeb citizen
  • IndieAuth support (OAuth2 extension)
  • Microformats everywhere
  • Micropub support
  • Sends and processes Webmentions
  • RSS/Atom/JSON feed
• Easy to backup
  • Everything is stored in the data/ directory: config, uploads, secrets and the SQLite database.

Getting started

Check out the online documentation.

Credits

• Emoji from Twemoji
• Awesome custom goose emoji from @pamela@bsd.network

Contributing

All the development takes place on sourcehut, GitHub is only used as a mirror:

• Project
• Issue tracker
• Mailing list

Contributions are welcomed, check out the contributing section of the documentation for more details.

License

The project is licensed under the GNU AGPL v3 LICENSE (see the LICENSE file).