Fedibook is my open source project — a self-hosted social network inspired by the simplicity of early Facebook, with profiles, friends, groups, and a chronological feed. Built on ActivityPub, Fedibook instances federate with each other and with the wider Fediverse. Follow along as I build it in the open.
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I have enabled an "App Light" feature in Fedibook that enables to save the webapp to the phone start screen. An icon was needed - so here it is! The Fedibook logo is a typographic tribute to the Fediverse. The letter "F" is constructed entirely from
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Fedibook groups just got a major rewrite. Groups now work as a ActivityPub group actors — meaning members from Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other Fediverse platforms can join and participate, not just Fedibook users. Invite a @mastodon.social friend to your group, they accept the follow request, and group posts start appearing
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I've had an inspiring first week with Fedibook. Your feedback has been truly inspiring. It started as a provocation and an experiment — but I have decided to turn this into a proper open source project. My first ever! If you tested on dev1.fedibook.dk — come to https:
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Date: 2026-03-25 Reviewer: Claude Code (claude-sonnet-4-6) Scope: dev1 (primary codebase), dev2 (configuration variant), publish (release template) Code read: All Go backend files, all Svelte/TypeScript frontend files, all Docker/compose files, all configuration files. Summary Statement Fedibook is a small but structurally sound ActivityPub social network. The overall security posture
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A story about using one Big Tech power to outperform another. How I used Claude Code to bring a new, powerful Social Network to the world in one week.