Aster

Aster is a work in progress federated social networking software.

Features

• Notes can quote other notes
• Notes can include up to 12 attachments
• Notes can contain MFM, a markdown used by Misskey that allows for a lot of customization.
• Notes can have emoji reactions added to them
• Users can upload files to a drive
• More advanced instance moderation, no "blocked" or "silenced"
  • Every note from an instance can have a specified content warning applied to it
  • Every user from an instance can be marked sensitive automatically
  • Admins can toggle if an instance...
    • can have activities delivered to it
    • if activities from that instance should be accepted
    • if URIs from that instance should be able to be fetched
    • if their instance should return data the other
• Admins can enable a "bubble timeline" that has all the public notes from a list of instances
• Admins can create emojis and categorize them
• Files uploaded by users are always accessible by the Drive
• Users can be marked sensitive
• Users can bite eachother

Setup

Aster is not ready for production. If you use it in production, good luck!

• Install dependencies with pnpm i
• Copy config from config/example.yaml to config/production.yaml
• Update config so that the URL, postgres, and redis connection are right
• Run pnpm migrate, pnpm build, and then pnpm start

You can use something like pm2 or make a systemd service to keep it running in the background.

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, for now, it's easier to contact me directly. See https://blueb.pages.gay/#contact or this GitHub profile to contact me.