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Re: New social media platform

On Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:26:28 -0500
Lucas Fryzek via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing, seems interesting! It's open source too (Apache
> 2.0 license) https://gitlab.com/heycafe/app

The front-end is open-source.  The back-end is not (I was chatting with
the developer.)  The back-end is PHP and MariaDB, so a pretty standard
Linux stack.  I'm sad they never went with PostgreSQL, though. :)

> I tried to check if they support / are planning support for
> activitypub integration but couldn't find anything.

Unlikely.  This seems to be a passion project by basically one guy and
I don't think federation was a goal.  It does have a
somewhat-documented API, though, at https://endpoint.hey.cafe/

Regards,

Dianne.

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