ditto/README.md

Ditto

Ditto is a tiny but powerful social media server for the decentralized web. With Ditto you will be able to interact across protocols and networks, and build your own social media experience.

⚠️ This software is a work in progress.

Supported protocols

• Nostr
• ActivityPub

Features

• Follow users across networks
• Post to multiple networks at once
• Log in with any Mastodon app
• Like and comment on posts
• Share posts
• Reposts
• Notifications
• Profiles
• Search
• Moderation
• Customizable
• Open source
• Self-hosted
• Decentralized
• No ads
• No tracking
• No censorship

Federation

Ditto is primarily a Nostr client, using a Nostr relay as its database. ActivityPub objects are translated into Nostr events in realtime and cached by the Ditto server. When you submit a post, it sends it to your Nostr relay and then fans it out to the ActivityPub network.

The main way to use Ditto is with a Mastodon app. Or you can connect directly to the Nostr relay with a Nostr client.

Installation

TODO

Development

1. Install Deno.
2. Clone this repo.
3. Download Soapbox or another web-based Mastodon client of your choice.
4. Put the frontend files inside the public directory.
5. Create an .env file.
6. Define DITTO_NSEC=<value> in your .env file. You can generate an nsec by running deno task nsec.
7. Run deno task dev.

License

© Alex Gleason & other Ditto contributors

Ditto is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Ditto is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with Ditto. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.