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Created & maintained by the Newsmast Foundation.
Welcome to the Patchwork wiki.
Patchwork is a plugin dashboard designed to enhance your Mastodon server with advanced features and a streamlined admin experience, making stewardship of a Mastodon server easier, safer and more fun.
The idea behind Patchwork is to bring new layers and services to ActivityPub networks, opening up new spaces for innovation.
Patchwork does several things:
- New features for your Mastodon server
- Streamlines management of your Mastodon server
- Allows you to create and host custom feeds aka Channels
- Enable features in front-end clients, like apps developed by The Newsmast Foundation
Support is always available. The creators of Patchwork, The Newsmast Foundation, will be happy to support your deployment. Simply get in touch with us at support@newsmastfoundation.org or through our LinkedIn or Mastodon profiles
- Home
- Dashboard
- Channels
- Apps
- Is Patchwork for me?
- Patchwork implementations
- The Newsmast Foundation
- Licensing
Patchwork has three components: a dashboard, channels and an app. Each of these can be deployed individually depending on your requirements. Apps are deployed for communities in coordination with The Newsmast Foundation.
Dashboard
The basic dashboard, running alongside your Mastodon server, which allows you to activate new features on your server, including:
- Opt users in to search
- Custom post length
- Auto-Bluesky bridge
- Spam block
- Content filters
- Customise email branding
For more information, see here
Channels
Channels are custom feeds for the open social web, connecting conversations and communities from across the decentralised open social web.
The Channels package allows you to build and host Channels locally on your server. Channel creation and management happen in the dashboard.
See examples of Channels curated by us here and made by the public here.
For more information, see here
Please note, by installing Channels you will install an enhanced version of the Patchwork Dashboard and gain access to all its features.
App
The Newsmast Foundation offers a white labelled app service, based on our best-in-class Mastodon client.
Our app offers a smooth experience and enables users to make the most of Patchwork’s features. We partner with communities to deploy the app according to their needs.
If you are working with Newsmast to deploy an app, and you run your own Mastodon server, please consult the install guide here.
The Newsmast Foundation is a UK based charity, building digital infrastructure to empower communities with social media they control. We’ve built apps for news publishers, place based communities and NGO activists to create meaningful online connections.
Visit our website to learn more.
For support in installing Patchwork, or for more information on our partnerships, please contact us at support@newsmastfoundation.org
Patchwork is an open source project, licensed under AGPL-3.0. Have fun!