Nextcloud Social

🎉 Nextcloud becomes part of the federated social networks!

• 🙋 Find your friends: No matter if they use ☁ Nextcloud Social, 🐘 Mastodon, 🇫 Friendica – and soon 📺 PeerTube, 🅿️ Pleroma or 📷 PixelFed – you can follow them!
• 📜 Profile info: No need to fill out more profiles – your info from Nextcloud will be used and extended.
• 👐 Own your posts: Everything you post stays on your Nextcloud!
• 🕸 Open standards: We use the established ActivityPub standard!
• 🎨 Nice illustrations: Made by Katerina Limpitsouni of unDraw.

For more information about about our motivation and goals, read the announcement blog.

The app is in alpha stage, so it’s time for you to get involved! 👩‍💻

For a roadmap, see our development milestones - feel free to pick up any of the tasks which are not yet in progress!

Some requirements in this alpha stage are that your Nextcloud:

• must run on the default port

Emojis

Please follow this guide to enable the Emojis in the Social app.

Reset app

If you want to reset all Social app data e.g. to change the domain used for Social, you can use occ social:reset (For how to use occ commands see documentation: using the occ command).

Development setup

1. ☁ Clone the app into the apps folder of your Nextcloud: git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/social.git
2. 👩‍💻 Run make dev-setup to install the dependencies
3. 🏗 To build the Javascript whenever you make changes, run make build-js
4. ✅ Enable the app through the app management of your Nextcloud
5. 🎉 Partytime! Help fix some issues and review pull requests 👍