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A decentralized social network for the small web, implemented in ActivityPub

License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

TSQL 2.54% Rust 83.38% CSS 2.73% HTML 11.27% Shell 0.08%

gourami's Introduction

Hello World

Most of my active projects are on https://git.alexw.nyc

Patches or a git-request-pull message can be sent to: https://lists.sr.ht/~aw/patches

or my email (found on git commits)

I mirror things here sparsely. I would prefer not to.

I'm pretty active on my personal website, which I host on a Gemini/HTTP site builder I made, flounder:

https://alex.flounder.online

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gourami's Issues

Add UTF-8 name validation

I want to be a little more flexible than a lot of services -- allowing utf-8 usernames instead of just ascii. I should come up with a reasonable subset of utf 8 for usernames

Replace zxcvbn with a simpler character-length requirement

(removing bloat)

Put together Dockerfile

I'm not using it, but I understand it's valuable for people testing / getting started

Create invite system

If user is > 1 day old, they have the ability to invite people, rate limited in some way (once a day?)

Follow the invite tree as in https://lobste.rs/

This can be enabled / disabled

Extend ActivityPub vocabulary

Right now, the only actions supported are Follow, Accept (follow) and Create Note.

At a bare minimum we also want to support deletes and Undo Follows.

Replace Clap with lighter-weight argument parsing library

Perhaps https://github.com/murarth/gumdrop

Replace notifications with "mentions & replies"

Notifications are a mostly useless abstraction and the notification tab just links to posts. I don't use it much.

Unread mentions/replies should be tracked by date instead of a bit flag as they are right now

Change from env variables to config files (with maybe env variable override)

I drank too much of the 12 factor app kool aid

Allow admin to notify whole server with admin command

Use this function to automatically notify the whole server when a new user joins

Show validation errors on registration form

When registering a new account on a local development instance the registration kept failing for me. Eventually I poked through the code and found that a password complexity check is performed and my test password of password was unsurprisingly too weak.

The code in question is as follows from do_register in lib.rs:

    if form.validate().is_err() {
        // TODO catch better
        return do_login(LoginForm {
            username: form.username,
            password: form.password,
        });
    }

I note the TODO is already there but figured it was worth extracting it to an issue for tracking.

Update screenshot

If I'm feeling really crazy I can generate the image via a browser emulator and github actions

Test in terminal web browsers, e.g. Lynx

Add remote followers / following with ActivityPub federation

I think my design has been somewhat resistant to how the fediverse works in practice, and I'm thinking about what I am looking for in an ActivityPub server, and being able to communicate with mastodon / the larger fediverse is something I want to aim towards.

Regex -- disable unused features

Docs: suggest creating an empty key

While setting up locally (with the sample_env you provide) it isn't possible to create an account if the SIGNATURE_PUBKEY_PEM file isn't there:

thread 'tokio-runtime-worker' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }', src/ap.rs:45:21

Since I don't care about federation I side-stepped this with mkdir local && touch local/public.pem. You might want to mention this in the docs (or handle the error differently).

Forward from neighborhood to avoid "Ghost replies" problem

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#inbox-forwarding

Move away from bootstrap to pure Flexbox

Following link to gourami from an external page causes me to be logged out at first

log in to gourami
post a link to a gourami instance from an external site, e.g. mastodon
follow the link
notice you'll be logged out until you refresh the page or click a link on something.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong with session cookies

Add email interface

Users should be able to make posts and receive replies to posts via email.

I think the easiest way to do this is through an SMTP relay instead of setting up an email server.

Docs: suggest diesel_cli feature=sqlite

While following the installation steps I noticed that diesel_cli fails to install if you don't have dev headers for all the db libraries it supports (in my case: mysql). Maybe for the time being it would make sense to suggest installing it like this:

$ cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features "sqlite"