grishka/Smithereen
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Federated, ActivityPub-compatible social network server with friends, walls, and groups.
15 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 15 comments · first 2021-01-11 · latest 2025-11-30
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Oh yeah I added a CLAUDE.md to my project the other day: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen/blob/master/CLAUDE.md Is it a good one?
comment by grishka · 2025-11-30 · in Writing a good Claude.md -
…ActivityPub server, and the Mastodon Android app[3]. [1] https://github.com/grishka/libtgvoip [2] https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen [3] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android
comment by grishka · 2024-08-03 · in "We ran out of columns" -
…terrified of the idea of putting user-uploaded files through ffmpeg if/when I'll support them. [1] https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen [2] https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy
comment by grishka · 2024-05-04 · in Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads? -
They do, or rather not old Facebook, but old VK: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen As a bonus it's an ActivityPub enabled application, so any specific instance of it requires less work to get a network effect going. :)
comment by mariusor · 2024-02-20 · in Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook? -
…it to the client. I also updated its dependencies and added support for Java 21 virtual threads. https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen My fork of Spark: https://github.com/grishka/spark
comment by grishka · 2024-02-11 · in Spark – A web micro framework for Java and Kotlin -
https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen A Facebook-style ActivityPub server. Has wall posts, groups, and events. Not yet "ready" — 1.0 would need much better moderation tools, photo albums (with tagging), discussion boards (in groups), and a…
comment by grishka · 2023-10-13 · in Ask HN: Show me your half baked project -
…bit I do see an IntelliJ plugin as well). I have one project that's a server application ( https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen ), but since it uses lots of custom stuff on top of the Spark micro-framework, your plugin would probably not…
comment by grishka · 2023-05-15 · in VSCode config to disable annoyances – telemetry, notifications, welcome pages -
…media companies trying their damnest to cater to the entertainment use case no one ever asked for. https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
comment by grishka · 2023-02-20 · in Facebook Announces Meta Verified -
I'm building an ActivityPub thing of my own: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen It's not quite ready for mainstream use just yet, but I'm getting there. The next update will improve moderation tools by a lot. One after that will, at…
comment by grishka · 2023-01-16 · in Misskey: An Interplanetary Microblogging Platform -
I'll keep building my federated Facebook replacement. https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
comment by grishka · 2023-01-02 · in Ask HN: What are you working on this year? -
…server with friends, walls, and groups". It is modeled after VK and federates with Mastodon. https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
comment by rapnie · 2022-04-18 · in Mastodon for Android -
…But not exactly "broadcast", it's more like Facebook groups that you join and do things in. [1] https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
comment by grishka · 2021-12-09 · in How to run a small social network site for your friends -
…perils that come with centralization, you can follow the development of my ActivityPub project: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
comment by grishka · 2021-12-02 · in Instagram Is Facebook Now -
…an attempt at a full fledged social network similar to VK on top of the ActivityPub vocabulary. [1] https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
comment by mariusor · 2021-01-11 · in Ask HN: Who is working on fully decentralized social networking?