Mitra

Federated social network with smart contracts.

Built on ActivityPub protocol, self-hosted, lightweight.

Unique features enabled by blockchain integration:

• Sign-in with Ethereum wallet.
• Donations.
• Paid subscriptions.
• Proving membership with a token.
• Converting posts into NFTs.

Smart contracts repo: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-contracts

Frontend repo: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-web

Demo instance: https://mitra.social/ (invite-only)

Matrix chat: #mitra:halogen.city

Requirements

• Rust 1.54+
• PostgreSQL 12+
• IPFS node (optional, see guide)
• Ethereum node (optional)

Development

Create database

docker-compose up

Test connection:

psql -h localhost -p 55432 -U mitra mitra

Run web service

Generate instance key:

cargo run --bin mitractl generate-rsa-key

Create config file, set instance_rsa_key, adjust other settings if needed:

cp config.yaml.example config.yaml

Compile and run service:

cargo run

Run CLI

cargo run --bin mitractl

Run linter

cargo clippy

Run tests

cargo test

Build for production

cargo build --release

Federation

See FEDERATION.md

Client API

Mastodon API

Most methods are similar to Mastodon API, but Mitra is not fully compatible.

OpenAPI spec (incomplete)

CLI commands

Generate RSA private key:

mitractl generate-rsa-key

Generate invite code:

mitractl generate-invite-code

List generated invites:

mitractl list-invite-codes

Delete profile:

mitractl delete-profile -i 55a3005f-f293-4168-ab70-6ab09a879679

Delete post:

mitractl delete-post -i 55a3005f-f293-4168-ab70-6ab09a879679

Remove remote posts and media older than 30 days:

mitractl delete-extraneous-posts -d 30

Generate ethereum address:

mitractl generate-ethereum-address

License

AGPL-3.0

Support

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