README.md

Go-Pub

A server-side implementation of the ActivityPub social networking protocol.

Special thanks to tedu for the knowledge and inspiration.

Useful Resources

• ActivityPub
  • ActivityPub Specification
  • ActivityPub Vocabulary
• JSON-LD
  • JSON-LD
  • Go Module created for handling arbitrary JSON
• HTTP Signatures
  • Spec
  • Go Module created for signing and validating requests

Configuration

See .env.example for an example configuration.

Notes

• AUTH - Authorization endpoint. GET request will be made to this endpoint to authorize requests, as necessary.
• CLIENT - Requests made without the "application/activity+json" Accept header will be reverse proxied to this URL. Can also provide a directory path here to serve static files.
• RSA_PUBLIC_KEY/RSA_PRIVATE_KEY - Paths to RSA public and private keys, respectively. Used to sign requests for federation.

Currently the application supports only PostgreSQL databases (hoping to add more eventually). Execute the init_db.sql statement to build the required tables.

Docker

Container image can be created by running docker build -t cheebz/go-pub . or docker build -t cheebz/go-pub -f Dockerfile.prod .

Docker-compose files are available that include PostgreSQL and Redis images.

Kubernetes

There is a Helm chart in the go-pub-k8s repository.