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# ✨ About Calckey - Calckey is based off of Misskey, a powerful microblogging server on ActivityPub with features such as emoji reactions, a customizable web UI, rich chatting, and much more! - Calckey adds many quality of life changes and bug fixes for users and instance admins alike. - Read **[this document](./CALCKEY.md)** all for current and future differences. - Notable differences: - Improved UI/UX (especially on mobile) - Improved notifications - Fediverse account migration - Improved instance security - Improved accessibility - Recommended Instances timeline - OCR image captioning - New and improved Groups - Better intro tutorial - Many more user and admin settings - [So much more!](./CALCKEY.md)

# 🥂 Links - 💸 Liberapay: - Donate publicly to get your name on the Patron list! - 🚢 Flagship instance: - 📣 Official account: - 💁 Matrix support room: - 📜 Instance list: - 📖 JoinFediverse Wiki: - 🐋 Docker Hub: # 🌠 Getting started This guide will work for both **starting from scratch** and **migrating from Misskey**. ## 📦 Dependencies - 🐢 At least [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org/en/) v18.12.1 (v19 recommended) - Install with [nvm](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm) - 🐘 At least [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/) v12 - 🍱 At least [Redis](https://redis.io/) v6 (v7 recommend) ### 😗 Optional dependencies - 📗 [FFmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/) for video transcoding - 🔍 [ElasticSearch](https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/) for full-text search - OpenSearch/Sonic are not supported as of right now - 🥡 Management (choose one of the following) - 🛰️ [pm2](https://pm2.io/) - 🐳 [Docker](https://docker.com) - 📐 Service manager (systemd, openrc, etc) ### 🏗️ Build dependencies - 🦬 C/C++ compiler & build tools - `build-essential` on Debian/Ubuntu Linux - `base-devel` on Arch Linux - 🐍 [Python 3](https://www.python.org/) ## 👀 Get folder ready ```sh git clone https://codeberg.org/thatonecalculator/calckey.git cd calckey/ # git checkout main # if you want only stable versions ``` ## 📩 Install dependencies ```sh # nvm install 18 && nvm alias default 18 && nvm use 18 corepack enable ``` ## 🐘 Create database Assuming you set up PostgreSQL correctly, all you have to run is: ```sh psql postgres -c "create database calckey with encoding = 'UTF8';" ``` ## 💅 Customize - To add custom CSS for all users, edit `./custom/assets/instance.css`. - To add static assets (such as images for the splash screen), place them in the `./custom/assets/` directory. They'll then be available on `https://yourinstance.tld/static-assets/filename.ext`. - To add custom locales, place them in the `./custom/locales/` directory. If you name your custom locale the same as an existing locale, it will overwrite it. If you give it a unique name, it will be added to the list. Also make sure that the first part of the filename matches the locale you're basing it on. (Example: `en-FOO.yml`) - To update custom assets without rebuilding, just run `yarn run gulp`. ## 🧑‍🔬 Configuring a new instance - Run `cp .config/example.yml .config/default.yml` - Edit `.config/default.yml`, making sure to fill out required fields. - Also copy and edit `.config/docker_example.env` to `.config/docker.env` if you're using Docker. ## 🚚 Migrating from Misskey to Calckey > ⚠️ Because of their changes, migrating from Foundkey is not supported. ```sh cp ../misskey/.config/default.yml ./.config/default.yml # replace `../misskey/` with misskey path, add `docker.env` if you use Docker cp -r ../misskey/files . # if you don't use object storage ``` ## 🍀 NGINX - Run `sudo cp ./calckey.nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/ && cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/` - Edit `calckey.nginx.conf` to reflect your instance properly - Run `sudo cp ./calckey.nginx.conf ../sites-enabled/` - Run `sudo nginx -t` to validate that the config is valid, then restart the NGINX service. ## 🚀 Build and launch! ### 🐢 NodeJS + pm2 #### `git pull` and run these steps to update Calckey in the future! ```sh # git pull yarn install NODE_ENV=production yarn run rebuild && yarn run migrate pm2 start "NODE_ENV=production yarn start" --name Calckey ``` ### 🐋 Docker [How to run Calckey with Docker](./docker-README.md). ## 😉 Tips & Tricks - When editing the config file, please don't fill out the settings at the bottom. They're designed *only* for managed hosting, not self hosting. Those settings are much better off being set in Calckey's control panel. - Port 3000 (used in the default config) might be already used on your server for something else. To find an open port for Calckey, run `for p in $(seq 3000 4000); do ss -tlnH | tr -s ' ' | cut -d" " -sf4 | grep -q "${p}$" || echo "${p}"; done | head -n 1` - I'd recommend you use a S3 Bucket/CDN for Object Storage, especially if you use Docker. - I'd ***strongly*** recommend against using CloudFlare, but if you do, make sure to turn code minification off. - For push notifications, run `npx web-push generate-vapid-keys`, the put the public and private keys into Control Panel > General > ServiceWorker. - For translations, make a [DeepL](https://deepl.com) account and generate an API key, then put it into Control Panel > General > DeepL Translation. - To add another admin account: - Go to the user's page > 3 Dots > About > Moderation > turn on "Moderator" - Go back to Overview > click the clipboard icon next to the ID - Run `psql -d calckey` (or whatever the database name is) - Run `UPDATE "user" SET "isAdmin" = true WHERE id='999999';` (replace `999999` with the copied ID) - Have the new admin log out and log back in