takahē

A very experimental Fediverse server for microblogging/“toots”. Not fully functional yet - I’m still working on making all the basic bits work! For more background and information, see my blog posts about it.

Indended features:

• Can run on serverless hosting (no need for worker daemons)
• Multiple account domains possible per server
• Async evented core for fan-out/delivery
• Mastodon client API compatible (eventually)

Deployment

Requirements:

• Python 3.11
• PostgreSQL 14+
• Lots of patience This is very experimental

Setup

More deployment docs will come soon! Just know that you need to run the Takahē Django app, and then either hit /.stator/runner/ or run ./manage.py runstator at least every 30 seconds.

Roadmap

Takahē is still under very active development towards something I’m willing to call a beta. I’ve grouped features here into milestones, along with if they’re done yet or not. None of this is final, and the further into the future it is, the less sure I am about it.

Alpha

• Create posts
• Set post visibility
• Receive posts
• Handle received post visibility (unlisted vs public only)
• Receive post deletions
• Receive post edits
• Set content warnings on posts
• Show content warnings on posts
• Receive images on posts
• Receive reply info
• Create boosts
• Receive boosts
• Create likes
• Receive likes
• Create follows
• Undo follows
• Receive and accept follows
• Receive follow undos
• Do outgoing mentions properly
• Home timeline (posts and boosts from follows)
• Notifications page (followed, boosted, liked)
• Local timeline
• Federated timeline
• Profile pages
• Settable icon and background image for profiles
• User search
• Following page
• Followers page
• Multiple domain support
• Multiple identity support
• Serverless-friendly worker subsystem
• Settings subsystem
• Server management page
• Domain management page
• Email subsystem
• Signup flow
• Password reset flow

Beta

• Attach images to posts
• Edit posts
• Delete posts
• Password change flow
• Fetch remote post images locally and thumbnail
• Show follow pending states
• Manual approval of followers
• Reply threading on post creation
• Display posts with reply threads
• Create polls on posts
• Receive polls on posts
• Emoji fetching and display
• Emoji creation
• Image descriptions
• Hashtag search
• Flag for moderation
• Moderation queue
• User management page
• Server defederation
• Filters for posts/boosts
• OAuth subsystem

1.0

• IP banning
• Trends subsystem and moderation
• Server announcements
• Automated post deletion
• Post popularity system (for long gaps between timeline views)
• Mastodon client API

Future

• Relays?
• Mastodon backup import? (would need url mapping for actors)

Contributing

If you’d like to contribute, please read CONTRIBUTING.md.