ActivityMemes

ActivityMemes is an open-source federated meme-sharing platform. Uses ActivityPub for federation.

Installation

Warning: ActivityMemes is currently in the early stages of development and can be considered very unstable. There is no guarantee that every database schema change will have an appropriate migration.

ActivityMemes is written in the Rust programming language and can be compiled with a modern version of Rust toolchain.

1. Run cargo build --release to build ActivityMemes.
2. Create a PostgreSQL database and a user that will be used to access the database.
3. Generate an RSA keypair and save the public and the private key into two PEM files.
4. Create a config.json file with following contents:

{
    "scheme": "http",
    "domain": "localhost:8080",
    "port": 8080,
    "db_connection_uri": "postgres://username:password@localhost:5432/db_name",
    "num_of_db_pool_connections": 8,
    "token_rsa_public_key_pem_filepath": "pub.pem",
    "token_rsa_private_key_pem_filepath": "priv.pem"
}

5. In config.json, replace the value of db_connection_uri with your PostgreSQL connection URI, replace values of token_rsa_public_key_pem_filepath and token_rsa_private_key_pem_filepath with filepaths to public and private key files respectively. Please note that value of scheme field currently should not be changed.
6. Start ./target/release/activitymemes.

In the future, much of this will be automated.