Mumble is a serverless implementation of Activity Pub on AWS.
Activity Pub is a decentralized social networking protocol which is used by Mastodon.
Mumble is not fully compliant with Activity Pub yet, but you can do the following things:
- Create an account reachable from Mastodon
- Publish a post with optional attachments
- Only public posts so far
- Deliver posts to your followers
- Be followed by another Mastodon user
More features will come in the future.
Since Mumble is implemented with serverless technologies on AWS, you do not have to spin up and manage persistent servers. It will greatly reduce your initial cost, and you can scale up as you gain more traction. FYI: According to this article, hosting a minimal Mastodon setup on AWS would cost about $60.
- A hosted service
- You have to deploy and host Mumble yourself on your own AWS account. You have full control over your data in return.
- An Activity Pub client
- MumbleBee is the official client for Mumble.
You need an AWS account where you have full privileges to provision resources.
To deploy Mumble to your AWS account, please follow the instructions described in cdk/README.md.
You have to do a few configurations after you deploy Mumble.
Please refer to Section "After deployment" in cdk/README.md.
Once you have deployed and configured Mumble, you can create a Mumble account.
Please refer to Section "Creating a new Mumble user" in cdk/README.md.
MumbleBee is the official client for Mumble. Please refer to MumbleBee's repository for more details.
I often write down thoughts and findings in short texts (mumblings) while I am working. For that purpose, I used to use Microsoft Teams, Slack, Dicord, or whatever the workplace provided. These mumblings turned out useful for my colleagues and me. Now, as a freelance, I started to want to have my own place to publicly write down these mumblings. Twitter could have been a good place, but I felt somehow it was not the right place for me. During the recent turmoil around Twitter, Mastodon, a decentralized social network, caught my attention, and I was attracted to Activity Pub behind Mastodon. Since hosting Mastodon required a traditional setup of servers that was not the way I was eager to pursue, I decided to implement a serverless version of Activity Pub on AWS.
The architecture of the Mumble service is described in docs/architecture.md.
The OpenAPI definition of the Mumble API is available at cdk/openapi/api-production.json.
Thanks to Redoc, you can browse the Mumble API documentation at https://redocly.github.io/redoc/?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codemonger-io/mumble/main/cdk/openapi/api-production.json.
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