Thoughts

Thoughts is a fully federated microblogging platform built on ActivityPub, compatible with Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, and Movies Diary. It features a distinctive Frutiger Aero style straight out of the 00s.

Users can post short thoughts (up to 128 characters), reply, boost, and like. Profiles are fully customizable with user-supplied CSS. The feed is purely chronological — no algorithms.

Federation:

• WebFinger, NodeInfo, shared inbox, paginated outbox, and actor profile sync
• Remote actor discovery by @user@instance handle
• Follow/unfollow remote actors with proper Accept/Follow delivery
• Per-domain and per-actor moderation with Block activity delivery

Technical details:

• Architecture Hexagonal (Ports & Adapters)
• Backend Rust, Axum, SQLx
• Frontend Next.js, TailwindCSS
• Database PostgreSQL (full-text search via trigram indexes)
• Event bus NATS JetStream (async AP delivery and notifications)
• Auth JWT + API key
• Docs OpenAPI (Swagger UI + Scalar)

Technologies

Rust

Axum

Next.js

TailwindCSS

ActivityPub

PostgreSQL

NATS

Gallery

Links

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