chirp.social / ap-groups

chirp.social was the domain where ap-groups was hosted. It enabled creation and management of Fediverse Group accounts.

The server is no longer running and the database has been deleted, but it could be forked and a new server/database could be spun up.

If you are interested in running a new instance, you can open a new issue and I can probably help.

For reference:

I used DigitalOcean's App Platform to host the Node server. Automatic production builds occurred anytime I pushed to the digitalocean git branch.

I also used DigitalOcean to spin up a Mongo database.

I provided the following environment variables inside DigitalOcean's App Platform for production, and these should also be set in a .gitignore'd .env file for local development:

• AP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT
  • Firebase Authentication Service Account
• AP_FTP_CONFIG
  • FTP configuration options (for uploaded profile photos)
  • A JSON object, Base64 encoded
  • Keys should be:
    • user
    • password
    • host
    • path
• AP_MONGO_CLIENT_URL
  • A mongodb:// or similar URL
• AP_MONGO_DB_NAME
  • The name of the MongoDB database
• AP_PORT
  • The port to run on (80 in production)
• NODE_OPTIONS set to --experimental_modules
  • May be necessary depending on the Node version
  • Due to a jsonld package dependency

The dependencies on activitypub-core-* packages are at this tag:

https://github.com/michaelcpuckett/activity-kit/releases/tag/v0.1.27

Development continued on the supporting activitypub-core-* packages, but the v0.1.27 tag is the last one that works with the code in this repository.

The current activity-kit master branch is buggy and basically non-functional but could probably be cleaned up and used with ap-groups.