Chuckya is a close-to-upstream soft fork of Mastodon Glitch Edition (more commonly known as glitch-soc) that aims to introduce more experimental features/fixes with the goal of making the overall experience more enjoyable. Although it's mainly developed for and used on the wetdry.world instance, it can be deployed by any server admin as a drop-in, backwards-compatible replacement for Mastodon.
Here are some of the changes compared to glitch-soc:
- Emoji reactions (glitch-soc#2462)
- Bubble timeline
- Tenor GIF picker (originally from koyu.space)
- Mastodon Modern theme (licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, original repo)
- Configurable media attachment limits
- Polls can be posted alongside media (glitch-soc#2524)
- Polls can have only one option
- Restores status trend half-life to 2 hours
- Allows dashes in custom emote names
- Emojis can be put side-by-side
- Minor media attachment tweaks
Changes previously in Chuckya that made their way into vanilla Mastodon:
- Unicode emojis use
jdecked/twemojiv15 graphics (mastodon#28404)
Setup instructions are the same as glitch-soc's; just replace the glitch-soc repo URL with https://github.com/TheEssem/mastodon.
Original glitch-soc readme is below.
So here's the deal: we all work on this code, and anyone who uses that does so absolutely at their own risk. can you dig it?
- You can view documentation for this project at glitch-soc.github.io/docs/.
- And contributing guidelines are available here and here.
Mastodon Glitch Edition is a fork of Mastodon. Upstream's README file is reproduced below.
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Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub where users can follow friends and discover new ones. On Mastodon, users can publish anything they want: links, pictures, text, and video. All Mastodon servers are interoperable as a federated network (users on one server can seamlessly communicate with users from another one, including non-Mastodon software that implements ActivityPub!)
- Project homepage 🐘
- Support the development via Patreon
- View sponsors
- Blog
- Documentation
- Roadmap
- Official Docker image
- Browse Mastodon servers
- Browse Mastodon apps
No vendor lock-in: Fully interoperable with any conforming platform - It doesn't have to be Mastodon; whatever implements ActivityPub is part of the social network! Learn more
Real-time, chronological timeline updates - updates of people you're following appear in real-time in the UI via WebSockets. There's a firehose view as well!
Media attachments like images and short videos - upload and view images and WebM/MP4 videos attached to the updates. Videos with no audio track are treated like GIFs; normal videos loop continuously!
Safety and moderation tools - Mastodon includes private posts, locked accounts, phrase filtering, muting, blocking, and all sorts of other features, along with a reporting and moderation system. Learn more
OAuth2 and a straightforward REST API - Mastodon acts as an OAuth2 provider, so 3rd party apps can use the REST and Streaming APIs. This results in a rich app ecosystem with a lot of choices!
- Ruby on Rails powers the REST API and other web pages
- React.js and Redux are used for the dynamic parts of the interface
- Node.js powers the streaming API
- PostgreSQL 12+
- Redis 4+
- Ruby 3.2+
- Node.js 18+
The repository includes deployment configurations for Docker and docker-compose as well as specific platforms like Heroku, and Scalingo. For Helm charts, reference the mastodon/chart repository. The standalone installation guide is available in the documentation.
Mastodon is free, open-source software licensed under AGPLv3.
You can open issues for bugs you've found or features you think are missing. You can also submit pull requests to this repository or translations via Crowdin. To get started, look at the CONTRIBUTING and DEVELOPMENT guides. For changes accepted into Mastodon, you can request to be paid through our OpenCollective.
IRC channel: #mastodon on irc.libera.chat
Copyright (c) 2016-2024 Eugen Rochko (+ mastodon authors)
Licensed under GNU Affero General Public License as stated in the LICENSE:
Copyright (c) 2016-2024 Eugen Rochko & other Mastodon contributors
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