cobalt

Cobalt aims to be a lightweight implementation of the ActivityPub standard, allowing it to federate with other implementations such as Mastodon.

For a lightweight frontend see Kobold.

⚠️ This is nowhere near production ready ⚠️

⚠️ The passwords are currently stored in plain text ⚠️

Features

• Authentication - ⚠️ currently vulnerable to CSRF and possibly others ⚠️
• User endpoint
• Following endpoint
• Followers endpoint
• Inbox endpoint
• Outbox endpoint

The roadmap will be expanded as the features will be implemented.

Getting started

This relies on Rust Nightly, since that is what Rocket - the web framework we use - requires.

You need the Diesel CLI to set up the database. It can be installed with

cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features postgres

To set up the database run

DATABASE_URL=postgres://cobalt@localhost/cobalt_development diesel run

You should now be able to start the server

DATABASE_URL=postgres://cobalt@localhost/cobalt_development ROCKET_SECRET_KEY=4Ei10ygh7KiPBkavOD0PV2lyiF6c20rJbECFkNfraw8= cargo run