Hiveway is to become a direct democratic social network, running fully autonomously. It is a fork of Mastodon. Its users will be able to post and interact with messages, photos and videos. The social platform will be ruled by its users, through an electoral system, with technocratic values. The users will receive the right to vote on the development of the platform, to run for a position in managing it, and to vote the candidates they believe more competent for each position.
Since the codebase is forked from Mastodon (https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon), Ruby on Rails is used for the back-end, while React.js and Redux are used for the dynamic front-end. A static front-end for public resources (profiles and statuses) is also provided.
If you would like, you can be a part of this project on https://hiveway.io
No vendor lock-in: Fully interoperable with any conforming platform
It doesn't have to be Hiveway, whatever implements ActivityPub or OStatus is part of the social network!
Real-time timeline updates
See the updates of people you're following appear in real-time in the UI via WebSockets. There's a firehose view as well!
Federated thread resolving
If someone you follow replies to a user unknown to the server, the server fetches the full thread so you can view it without leaving the UI
Media attachments like images and short videos
Upload and view images and WebM/MP4 videos attached to the updates. Videos with no audio track are treated like GIFs; normal videos are looped - like vines!
OAuth2 and a straightforward REST API
Hiveway acts as an OAuth2 provider so 3rd party apps can use the API
Fast response times
Hiveway tries to be as fast and responsive as possible, so all long-running tasks are delegated to background processing
Deployable via Docker
You don't need to mess with dependencies and configuration if you want to try Hiveway, if you have Docker and Docker Compose the deployment is extremely easy
Please follow the development guide from the documentation repository.
Please follow the production deployment guide from the documentation repository.
You can open issues for bugs you've found or features you think are missing. You can also submit pull requests to this repository. Here are the guidelines for code contributions