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# localhost.localdomain:8443
Welcome, fedinaut! localhost.localdomain:8443 is an instance of tootik, a federated nanoblogging service.
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📻 My feed
📞 Mentions
⚡️ Followed users
😈 My profile
📡 Local feed
🏕️ Communities
🔥 Hashtags
🔭 View profile
🔎 Search posts
📣 New post
⚙️ Settings
📊 Status
🛟 Help
tootik is a text-based social network.
tootik is federated: users can join an existing server or set up their own instance. A tootik user can interact with others on the same instance, users on other tootik instances, Mastodon users, Lemmy users and users of other ActivityPub-compatible server.
Unlike other social networks, tootik doesn't have a browser-based interface or an app: instead, its minimalistic, text-based interface is served over Gemini:
Gemini ActivityPub (HTTPS)
→ ⇄
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┌─────────────────────────┐
┃ Bob's Gemini client ┣━━━┫ tootik instance ┠─┬─┤ Another tootik instance │
┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫ ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫ │ └─────────────────────────┘
┃2024-01-01 alice ┃ ┃$ ./tootik ... ┃ │ ┌────────────────┐
┃> Hi @bob and @carol! ┃ ┗━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ ├─┤ Something else │
┃... ┃ ┃ │ └────────────────┘
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ ┃ │ ┌───────────────────┐
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━┓ └─┤ Mastodon instance ├─┐
┃ Alice's Gemini client ┃ └───────────────────┘ │
┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫ ┌──────────────────┴────┐
┃2024-01-01 bob ┃ │ Carol's web browser │
┃> Hi @alice! ┃ ├───────────────────────┤
┃... ┃ │╔═╗ alice │
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ │╚═╝ 17h ago│
│Hi @bob and @carol! │
│ │
│ ╔═╗ bob │
│ ╚═╝ 16h ago│
│ Hi @alice! │
├───────────────────────┤
│┌────────────┐┌───────┐│
││ Hola ││Publish││
│└────────────┘└───────┘│
└───────────────────────┘
This makes tootik lightweight, private and accessible:
You can join an existing instance or set up your own.
go generate ./migrations
Then:
go build ./cmd/tootik -tags fts5
or, to build a static executable:
go build -tags netgo,sqlite_omit_load_extension,fts5 -ldflags "-linkmode external -extldflags -static" ./cmd/tootik
┏━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ notes ┃ ┃ shares ┃ ┃ persons ┃ ┃ follows ┃
┣━━━━━━━┫ ┣━━━━━━━━┫ ┣━━━━━━━━━┫ ┣━━━━━━━━━┫
┃object ┃ ┃note ┃ ┃actor ┃ ┃follower ┃
┃author ┃ ┃by ┃ ┃... ┃ ┃followed ┃
┃... ┃ ┃... ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃... ┃
┗━━━━━━━┛ ┗━━━━━━━━┛ ┗━━━━━━━━━┛ ┗━━━━━━━━━┛
Most user-visible data is stored in 4 tables in tootik's database:
notes
, which contains Object objects that represent postsshares
, which records "user A shared post B" relationshipspersons
, which contains Actor objects that represent usersfollows
, which records "user A follows user B" relationshipsnotes.author
, shares.by
, follows.follower
and follows.followed
point to rows in persons
.
shares.note
points to a row in notes
.
┌───────┐ ┌────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┏━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━┓
│ notes │ │ shares │ │ persons │ │ follows │ ┃ outbox ┃ ┃ inbox ┃
├───────┤ ├────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├─────────┤ ┣━━━━━━━━┫ ┣━━━━━━━━┫
│object │ │note │ │actor │ │follower │ ┃activity┃ ┃activity┃
│author │ │by │ │... │ │followed │ ┃sender ┃ ┃sender ┃
│... │ │... │ │ │ │... │ ┃... ┃ ┃... ┃
└───────┘ └────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ ┗━━━━━━━━┛ ┗━━━━━━━━┛
Federation happens through two tables, inbox
and outbox
. Both contain Activity objects that represent actions performed by the users in persons
.
inbox
contains activities by users on other servers, while outbox
contains activities of local users.
┏━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ gmi.Wrap ┣━┫ gemini.Listener ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━┛ ┗━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┛
┏━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ front.Handler ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┛
┌───────┐ ┌────────┐ ┌────┸────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌────────┐ ┌────────┐
│ notes │ │ shares │ │ persons │ │ follows │ │ outbox │ │ inbox │
├───────┤ ├────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├────────┤ ├────────┤
│object │ │note │ │actor │ │follower │ │activity│ │activity│
│author │ │by │ │... │ │followed │ │sender │ │sender │
│... │ │... │ │ │ │... │ │... │ │... │
└───────┘ └────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └────────┘ └────────┘
gemini.Listener is a Gemini server that handles requests using Handler. It adds rows to persons
during new user registration and changes rows when users change properties like their display name.
gemini.Listener provides Handler with a writer that builds a Gemini response and asynchronously sends it to the client in chunks, while Handler continues to handle the request and append more lines to the page.
┌──────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐
│ gmi.Wrap ├─┤ gemini.Listener │
└──────────┘ └────────┬────────┘
┌────────┴──────────┐
┏━━━━━━━━━━━┥ front.Handler │
┃ └┰────────┬───────┰─┘
┌───┸───┐ ┌──────┸─┐ ┌────┴────┐ ┌┸────────┐ ┌────────┐ ┌────────┐
│ notes │ │ shares │ │ persons │ │ follows │ │ outbox │ │ inbox │
├───────┤ ├────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├────────┤ ├────────┤
│object │ │note │ │actor │ │follower │ │activity│ │activity│
│author │ │by │ │... │ │followed │ │sender │ │sender │
│... │ │... │ │ │ │... │ │... │ │... │
└───────┘ └────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └────────┘ └────────┘
In addition, Gemini requests can:
notes
(new post)notes
(post editing)shares
(user shares a post)shares
(user no longer shares a post)follows
(user A followed user B)follows
(user A unfollowed user B) ┌──────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐
│ gmi.Wrap ├─┤ gemini.Listener │
└──────────┘ └────────┬────────┘
┌────────┴──────────┐
┌───────────┤ front.Handler ┝━━━━━━━━━━┓
│ └┬────────┬───────┬─┘ ┃
┌───┴───┐ ┌──────┴─┐ ┌────┴────┐ ┌┴────────┐ ┌─┸──────┐ ┌────────┐
│ notes │ │ shares │ │ persons │ │ follows │ │ outbox │ │ inbox │
├───────┤ ├────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├────────┤ ├────────┤
│object │ │note │ │actor │ │follower │ │activity│ │activity│
│author │ │by │ │... │ │followed │ │sender │ │sender │
│... │ │... │ │ │ │... │ │... │ │... │
└───────┘ └────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └────────┘ └────────┘
User actions like post creation or deletion are recorded as Activity objects written to outbox
.
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┌──────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ ┃ outbox.Mover ┃
│ gmi.Wrap ├─┤ gemini.Listener │ ┃ outbox.Poller ┃
└──────────┘ └────────┬────────┘ ┃ fed.Syncer ┃
┌────────┴──────────┐ ┗━━━┳━━━━━┳━━━━━┛
┌───────────┤ front.Handler ├─────╂────┐┃
│ └┬────────┬───────┬─┘ ┃ │┃
┌───┴───┐ ┌──────┴─┐ ┌────┴────┐ ┌┴───────┸┐ ┌─┴┸─────┐ ┌────────┐
│ notes │ │ shares │ │ persons │ │ follows │ │ outbox │ │ inbox │
├───────┤ ├────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├────────┤ ├────────┤
│object │ │note │ │actor │ │follower │ │activity│ │activity│
│author │ │by │ │... │ │followed │ │sender │ │sender │
│... │ │... │ │ │ │... │ │... │ │... │
└───────┘ └────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └────────┘ └────────┘
tootik may perform automatic actions and push additional activities to outbox
, on behalf of the user:
follows
rows for this user and what other servers know ┌───────────────┐
┌──────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ │ outbox.Mover │
│ gmi.Wrap ├─┤ gemini.Listener │ │ outbox.Poller │
└──────────┘ └────────┬────────┘ │ fed.Syncer │
┌────────┴──────────┐ └───┬─────┬─────┘
┌───────────┤ front.Handler ├─────┼────┐│
│ └┬────────┬───────┬─┘ │ ││
┌───┴───┐ ┌──────┴─┐ ┌────┴────┐ ┌┴───────┴┐ ┌─┴┴─────┐ ┌────────┐
│ notes │ │ shares │ │ persons │ │ follows │ │ outbox │ │ inbox │
├───────┤ ├────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├────────┤ ├────────┤
│object │ │note │ │actor │ │follower │ │activity│ │activity│
│author │ │by │ │... │ │followed │ │sender │ │sender │
│... │ │... │ │ │ │... │ │... │ │... │
└───────┘ └────────┘ └─────────┘ └───────┰─┘ └┰───────┘ └────────┘
┏┻━━━━┻━━━━━┓
┃ fed.Queue ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━┛
fed.Queue polls outbox
and delivers these activities to followers on other servers. It uses the deliveries
table to track delivery progress and retry failed deliveries.
┌───────────────┐
┌──────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ │ outbox.Mover │
│ gmi.Wrap ├─┤ gemini.Listener │ │ outbox.Poller │
└──────────┘ └────────┬────────┘ │ fed.Syncer │
┌────────┴──────────┐ └───┬─────┬─────┘
┌───────────┤ front.Handler ├─────┼────┐│
│ └┬────────┬───────┬─┘ │ ││
┌───┴───┐ ┌──────┴─┐ ┌────┴────┐ ┌┴───────┴┐ ┌─┴┴─────┐ ┌────────┐
│ notes │ │ shares │ │ persons │ │ follows │ │ outbox │ │ inbox │
├───────┤ ├────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├────────┤ ├────────┤
│object │ │note │ │actor │ │follower │ │activity│ │activity│
│author │ │by │ │... │ │followed │ │sender │ │sender │
│... │ │... │ │ │ │... │ │... │ │... │
└───────┘ └────────┘ └────┰────┘ └───────┬─┘ └┬───────┘ └────────┘
┃ ┌┴────┴─────┐
┏━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━┥ fed.Queue │
┃ fed.Resolver ┣━┛ └───────────┘
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
Resolver is responsible for fetching Actors that represent users of other servers, using user@domain
pairs and WebFinger. The fetched objects are cached in persons
, and contain properties like the user's inbox URL and public key.
fed.Queue uses Resolver to make a list of unique inbox URLs each activity should be delivered to. If this is a wide delivery (a public post or a post to followers) and two recipients share the same sharedInbox
, fed.Queue delivers the activity to both recipients in a single request.
┌───────────────┐
┌──────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ │ outbox.Mover │
│ gmi.Wrap ├─┤ gemini.Listener │ │ outbox.Poller │
└──────────┘ └────────┬────────┘ │ fed.Syncer │
┌────────┴──────────┐ └───┬─────┬─────┘ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┌───────────┤ front.Handler ├─────┼────┐│ ┏━━┫ fed.Listener ┣━━━━━━┓
│ └┬────────┬───────┬─┘ │ ││ ┃ ┗━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┛ ┃
┌───┴───┐ ┌──────┴─┐ ┌────┴────┐ ┌┴───────┴┐ ┌─┴┴────┸┐ ┌─────┸──┐ ┃
│ notes │ │ shares │ │ persons │ │ follows │ │ outbox │ │ inbox │ ┃
├───────┤ ├────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├────────┤ ├────────┤ ┃
│object │ │note │ │actor │ │follower │ │activity│ │activity│ ┃
│author │ │by │ │... │ │followed │ │sender │ │sender │ ┃
│... │ │... │ │ │ │... │ │... │ │... │ ┃
└───────┘ └────────┘ └────┬────┘ └───────┬─┘ └┬───────┘ └────────┘ ┃
│ ┌┴────┴─────┐ ┃
┌───────┴──────┐ ┌────┤ fed.Queue │ ┃
│ fed.Resolver ├─┘ └───────────┘ ┃
└───────┰──────┘ ┃
┃ ┃
┃ ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
Requests from other servers are handled by fed.Listener, a HTTP server.
It extracts the signature and key ID from a request using httpsig.Extract, uses Resolver to fetch the public key if needed, validates the request using Verify and inserts the received Activity object into inbox
.
In addition, fed.Listener allows other servers to fetch public activity (like public posts) from outbox
, so they can fetch some past activity by a newly-followed user.
┌───────────────┐
┌──────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ │ outbox.Mover │
│ gmi.Wrap ├─┤ gemini.Listener │ │ outbox.Poller │
└──────────┘ └────────┬────────┘ │ fed.Syncer │
┌────────┴──────────┐ └───┬─────┬─────┘ ┌──────────────┐
┌───────────┤ front.Handler ├─────┼────┐│ ┌──┤ fed.Listener ├──────┐
│ └┬────────┬───────┬─┘ │ ││ │ └─────┬────────┘ │
┌───┴───┐ ┌──────┴─┐ ┌────┴────┐ ┌┴───────┴┐ ┌─┴┴────┴┐ ┌─────┴──┐ │
│ notes │ │ shares │ │ persons │ │ follows │ │ outbox │ │ inbox │ │
├───────┤ ├────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├────────┤ ├────────┤ │
│object │ │note │ │actor │ │follower │ │activity│ │activity│ │
│author │ │by │ │... │ │followed │ │sender │ │sender │ │
│... │ │... │ │ │ │... │ │... │ │... │ │
└───┰───┘ └───┰────┘ └────┬────┘ └────┰──┬─┘ └┬───────┘ └──────┰─┘ │
┃ ┃ │ ┃ ┌┴────┴─────┐ ┏━━━━┻━━━━━━━━┓ │
┃ ┃ ┌───────┴──────┐ ┌──╂─┤ fed.Queue │ ┃ inbox.Queue ┃ │
┃ ┃ │ fed.Resolver ├─┘ ┃ └───────────┘ ┗━┳━┳━┳━━━━━━━┛ │
┃ ┃ └───────┬──────┘ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ ┃ ┃ │
┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━┿━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ ┃ │
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┿━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Once inserted into inbox
, inbox.Queue processes the received activities:
Create
activities to notes
notes
according to Update
activitiesAnnounce
activities in shares
follows
as accepted, when the followed user sends an Accept
activityfollows
when a remote user sends a Follow
activity to a local user ┌───────────────┐
┌──────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ │ outbox.Mover │
│ gmi.Wrap ├─┤ gemini.Listener │ │ outbox.Poller │
└──────────┘ └────────┬────────┘ │ fed.Syncer │
┌────────┴──────────┐ └───┬─────┬─────┘ ┌──────────────┐
┌───────────┤ front.Handler ├─────┼────┐│ ┌──┤ fed.Listener ├──────┐
│ └┬────────┬───────┬─┘ │ ││ │ └─────┬────────┘ │
┌───┴───┐ ┌──────┴─┐ ┌────┴────┐ ┌┴───────┴┐ ┌─┴┴────┴┐ ┌─────┴──┐ │
│ notes │ │ shares │ │ persons │ │ follows │ │ outbox │ │ inbox │ │
├───────┤ ├────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├────────┤ ├────────┤ │
│object │ │note │ │actor │ │follower │ │activity│ │activity│ │
│author │ │by │ │... │ │followed │ │sender │ │sender │ │
│... │ │... │ │ │ │... │ │... │ │... │ │
└───┬───┘ └───┬────┘ └────┬────┘ └────┬──┬─┘ └┬──────┰┘ └──────┬─┘ │
│ │ │ │ ┌┴────┴─────┐┃ ┌────┴────────┐ │
│ │ ┌───────┴──────┐ ┌──┼─┤ fed.Queue │┗━━━━┥ inbox.Queue │ │
│ │ │ fed.Resolver ├─┘ │ └───────────┘ └─┬─┬─┬───────┘ │
│ │ └───────┬──────┘ └─────────────────────┘ │ │ │
│ └───────────┼───────────────────────────────────┘ │ │
└─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┘ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Sometimes, a received or newly created local Activity is forwarded to the followers of a local user:
outbox
and forwarded to all followers of the local user.outbox
and forwarded to all community members. ┌───────────────┐
┌──────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ │ outbox.Mover │
│ gmi.Wrap ├─┤ gemini.Listener │ │ outbox.Poller │
└──────────┘ └────────┬────────┘ │ fed.Syncer │
┌────────┴──────────┐ └───┬─────┬─────┘ ┌──────────────┐
┌───────────┤ front.Handler ├─────┼────┐│ ┌──┤ fed.Listener ├──────┐
│ └┬────────┬───────┬─┘ │ ││ │ └─────┬────────┘ │
┌───┴───┐ ┌──────┴─┐ ┌────┴────┐ ┌┴───────┴┐ ┌─┴┴────┴┐ ┌─────┴──┐ │
│ notes │ │ shares │ │ persons │ │ follows │ │ outbox │ │ inbox │ │
├───────┤ ├────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├────────┤ ├────────┤ │
│object │ │note │ │actor │ │follower │ │activity│ │activity│ │
│author │ │by │ │... │ │followed │ │sender │ │sender │ │
│... │ │... │ │ │ │... │ │... │ │... │ │
└───┬───┘ └───┬────┘ └────┬────┘ └────┬──┬─┘ └┬──────┬┘ └──────┬─┘ │
│ │ │ │ ┌┴────┴─────┐│ ┌────┴────────┐ │
│ │ ┌───────┴──────┐ ┌──┼─┤ fed.Queue │└────┤ inbox.Queue │ │
│ │ │ fed.Resolver ├─┘ │ └───────────┘ └─┬─┬─┬─┰─────┘ │
│ │ └───────┬─┰────┘ └─────────────────────┘ │ │ ┃ │
│ └───────────┼─╂─────────────────────────────────┘ │ ┃ │
└─────────────────────┼─╂───────────────────────────────────┘ ┃ │
└─╂─────────────────────────────────────╂───────────┘
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
To display details like the user's name and speed up the verification of future incoming replies, inbox.Queue uses Resolver to fetch the Actor objects of mentioned users (if needed).
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃┌───────────────┐ ┃
┌──────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ ┃│ outbox.Mover │ ┃
│ gmi.Wrap ├─┤ gemini.Listener │ ┃│ outbox.Poller │ ┃
└──────────┘ └────────┬────────┘┏━┛│ fed.Syncer │ ┃
┌────────┴─────────┸┐ └───┬─────┬─────┘ ┌──────────────┐ ┃
┌───────────┤ front.Handler ├─────┼────┐│ ┌──┤ fed.Listener ├──╂───┐
│ └┬────────┬───────┬─┘ │ ││ │ └─────┬────────┘ ┃ │
┌───┴───┐ ┌──────┴─┐ ┌────┴────┐ ┌┴───────┴┐ ┌─┴┴────┴┐ ┌─────┴──┐ ┏━━━━━━┻━┓ │
│ notes │ │ shares │ │ persons │ │ follows │ │ outbox │ │ inbox │ ┃ feed ┃ │
├───────┤ ├────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├─────────┤ ├────────┤ ├────────┤ ┣━━━━━━━━┫ │
│object │ │note │ │actor │ │follower │ │activity│ │activity│ ┃follower┃ │
│author │ │by │ │... │ │followed │ │sender │ │sender │ ┃note ┃ │
│... │ │... │ │ │ │... │ │... │ │... │ ┃... ┃ │
└─┰─┬───┘ └─┰─┬────┘ └──┰─┬────┘ └──┰─┬──┬─┘ └┬──────┬┘ └──────┬─┘ ┗━━━━━━┳━┛ │
┃ │ ┃ │ ┏━━━━━━━┛ │ ┃ │ ┌┴────┴─────┐│ ┌────┴────────┐ ┃ │
┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ ┌───────┴──────┐ ┌╂─┼─┤ fed.Queue │└────┤ inbox.Queue │ ┃ │
┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ fed.Resolver ├─┘┃ │ └───────────┘ └─┬─┬─┬─┬─────┘ ┃ │
┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ └───────┬─┬────┘ ┃ └─────────────────────┘ │ │ │ ┃ │
┃ │ ┃ └─╂─────────┼─┼───────╂─────────────────────────┘ │ │ ┃ │
┃ └───────╂───╂─────────┼─┼───────╂───────────────────────────┘ │ ┃ │
┃ ┃ ┃ └─┼───────╂─────────────────────────────┼───────╂───┘
┏━┻━━━━━━━━━┻━━━┻━━━┓ └───────╂─────────────────────────────┘ ┃
┃ inbox.FeedUpdater ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┛ ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
To speed up each user's feed, inbox.FeedUpdater periodically appends rows to the feed
table. This table holds all information that appears in the user's feed: posts written or shared by followed users, author information and more, eliminating the need for join
queries, slow filtering by post visibility, deduplication and sorting by time when a user views their feed. This table is indexed by user and time, allowing fast querying of a single feed page for a particular user.
tootik is free and unencumbered software released under the terms of the Apache License Version 2.0; see LICENSE for the license text.
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