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https://github.com/cabalamat/meowcat2

Meowcat will be a federated blogging and social networking platform using the ActivityPub protocol
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Meowcat will be a federated blogging and social networking platform using the ActivityPub protocol

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# MeowCat2



**MeowCat** is a Python web application that will implement a federated 

blogging, microblogging, and social networking platform using the 

ActivityPub protocol.



## MeowCat's goals



To be a **blogging** and **microblogging** platform (similar to Wordpress or 

Twitter).



The ability to Meowcat to post long posts makes it most useful for more thoughtful

intellectual people -- the opposite of Twitter and Instagram in a way. This is good 

because I'm aiming at an under-served audience. The Fediverse already has 

microblogging software (Mastodon), so MeowCat will carve out a new ecological 

niche. 



MeowCat uses a varient of **Markdown** markup, with extensions for hashtags and 

wiki links. Code highlighting is enabled, making it attractive to programmers 

(another under-served audience).



MeowCat will allow **polls** on posts so users can get feedback. Each poll 

question can allow multiple answers or only one. 



Each user will be able to **upload images** which they can embed in their 

posts, replies, and wiki pages. They will also be able to embed images from 

PixelFed and videos from PeerTube. Legacy non-federated platfroms such as YouTube 

will also be supported.



MeowCat will be part of the **Fediverse** with Meowcat instances talking to each 

other and other Fediverse services using **ActivityPub**.



Each user will have their own **wiki**, their own personal web space in which 

they can create pages on whatever they want (similar to Geocities).



MeowCat will allow people to group posts based on **topics** (similar to Reddit's

subreddits). Each topic will have its own **topic-based wiki**, where users can

collaboratively create content.



Wikis can optionally be linked together on multiple instances so that any change

to the wiki on one instance is automatically copied (perhaps using a flood-fill 

algorithm) to other instances. This would then be a distributed wiki

which would be resilient so that if one instance went down, the wiki would 

still be there.



MeowCat will allow users to send **private posts** to other users (similar to email).

When private posts travel over the internet they will be encrypted.



A long term goal of MeowCat is to allow users to get a **Raspberry Pi**, download 

the MeowCat software onto the Pi, spend 10 minutes configuring it though a web

interface, and then attaching the Pi to their home router to act as their

own social media server that they and their friends can use, connected to

all other federated servers using ActivityPub.



## Where MeowCat is now



The current implementation is written in Python, with some client-side JavaScript.



It currently does blogging and wikis,  although you can't upload images yet. 



Connection to the Fediverse is not yet implemented.



## License



![AGPL logo](app/static/agplv3-155x51.png)



This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the **GNU Affero General Public License** as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.



This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 

See the [GNU Affero General Public License](LICENSE.md) for more details.