ZenPub Federated Server

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About the project

ZenPub is a WIP backend for the Reflow project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 820937.

It is a flavour of CommonsPub, a federated app ecosystem based on the ActivityPub and ActivityStreams web standards).

This is the main repository, written in Elixir (running on Erlang/OTP).

The federation API uses ActivityPub and the client API uses GraphQL.

Documentation

Do you want to...

Read about the CommonsPub architecture? Read our overview.
Hack on the code? Read our Developer FAQs.
Understand the client API? Read our GraphQL guide.
Deploy in production? Read our Deployment Docs.

Forks and branches

Flavours

CommonsPub comes in different flavours, which are made up of a combination of extensions and probably some custom config and branding. Each flavour has its own branch in the CommonsPub repo:

flavour/commonspub - Contains the generic flavour of CommonsPub (currently packaged with all extensions)
flavour/zenpub - WIP ZenPub flavour (which will use ZenRoom for public key signing and end-to-end encryption
flavour/haha - WIP for HAHA Academy

Extensions

Features are being developed in seperate namespaces in order to make the software more modular (to then be spun out into individual libraries):

lib/activity_pub and lib/activity_pub_web - Implementation of the ActivityPub federation protocol.
lib/extensions/value_flows - WIP implementation of the ValueFlows economic vocabulary, to power distributed economic networks for the next economy.
lib/extensions/organisations - Adds functionality for organisations to maintain a shared profile.
lib/extensions/tags - For tagging, @ mentions, and user-maintained taxonomies of categories.
lib/extensions/measurements - Various units and measures for indicating amounts (incl duration).
lib/extensions/locales - Extensive schema of languages/countries/etc. The data is also open and shall be made available oustide the repo.
lib/extensions/geolocations - Shared 'spatial things' database for tagging objects with a location.

Please avoid mixing flavours!

For example, do not merge directly from flavour/commonspub-->flavour/zenpub.

Licensing

CommonsPub is licensed under the GNU Affero GPL version 3.0 (GNU AGPLv3).

This repository includes code from:

For a list of linked libraries, including their origin and licenses, see docs/DEPENDENCIES.md

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