FediMovies

Lively federated movies reviews platform.

Built on ActivityPub protocol, self-hosted, lightweight. Part of the Fediverse.

Features:

• Micro-blogging service (includes support for quote posts, custom emojis and more).
• Mastodon API.
• Account migrations (from one server to another). Identity can be detached from the server.
• Federation over Tor.

Instances

• FediList
• Fediverse Observer

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

Code

Server: https://code.caric.io/reef/reef (this repo)

Web client:

Requirements

• Rust 1.57+ (when building from source)
• PostgreSQL 12+

Optional:

• IPFS node (see guide)

Installation

Building from source

Run:

cargo build --release --features production

This command will produce two binaries in target/release directory, fedimovies and fedimoviesctl.

Install PostgreSQL and create the database:

CREATE USER fedimovies WITH PASSWORD 'fedimovies';
CREATE DATABASE fedimovies OWNER fedimovies;

Create configuration file by copying contrib/fedimovies_config.yaml and configure the instance. Default config file path is /etc/fedimovies/config.yaml, but it can be changed using CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

Put any static files into the directory specified in configuration file. Building instructions for fedimovies-web frontend can be found at https://code.caric.io/FediMovies/fedimovies#project-setup.

Start Fedimovies:

./fedimovies

An HTTP server will be needed to handle HTTPS requests. See the example of nginx configuration file.

To run Fedimovies as a systemd service, check out the systemd unit file example.

Debian package

Download and install Fedimovies package:

dpkg -i fedimovies.deb

Install PostgreSQL and create the database:

CREATE USER fedimovies WITH PASSWORD 'fedimovies';
CREATE DATABASE fedimovies OWNER fedimovies;

Open configuration file /etc/fedimovies/config.yaml and configure the instance.

Start Fedimovies:

systemctl start fedimovies

An HTTP server will be needed to handle HTTPS requests. See the example of nginx configuration file.

Tor federation

See guide.

Development

See CONTRIBUTING.md

Start database server

docker-compose up -d

Test connection:

psql -h localhost -p 55432 -U fedimovies fedimovies

Run web service

Create config file, adjust settings if needed:

cp config.yaml.example config.yaml

Compile and run service:

cargo run

Run CLI

cargo run --bin fedimoviesctl

Run linter

cargo clippy

Run tests

cargo test

Federation

See FEDERATION.md

Client API

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

OpenAPI spec

CLI

fedimoviesctl is a command-line tool for performing instance maintenance.

Documentation

License

AGPL-3.0