Top 3 Go Fediverse Projects

gotosocial

29 3,424 9.5 Go

Fast, fun, small ActivityPub server.

Project mention: Official Lemmy instance to migrate off reddit | /r/rust | 2023-06-05

Honestly if a server allows free login, then it shouldn't matter how the donations are spent, the admins are probably at a loss anyway. I've seen large phpBB forums run on donations for a long time, so maybe federated socials can work too. One unfortunate thing I've noticed from running a single-user GoToSocial instance is that it consumes a lot of storage, I'm getting 8Gb just from myself and the instances I follow. This could be brought down with more agressive cache settings, but it still shows that people using these new social media still have habits from Twitter or Reddit, where bandwidth and storage is paid for by advertisers, and don't realize how many gigabytes they're casually moving around. I really hope this won't be the downfall of the Fediverse.

servitor

6 65 8.3 Go

A command-line Fediverse client that doesn’t require a server

Project mention: Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-13

In principle, if you want the post and comments without JS you can just pull the underlying ActivityPub document (application/activity+json). I made a command-line browser based on this idea: https://github.com/bentonedmondson/servitor

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
fediverse-matrix-keygen

2 21 0.0 Go

a self-service Matrix account creation and login password reset utility via Mastodon or Pleroma user SSO.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-08-13.