share2fedi/README.md

Instance-agnostic share page for the Fediverse.

Share₂Fedi allows you to share stuff on Mastodon, GoToSocial, Pleroma, and other federated social networks, instance-agnostic. Just type in the post text and the instance URL, and click ‘Post!’

Or, open this page with the prefilled text URL parameter—it will be automatically inserted into the text field. The same goes for the instance URL parameter. This can be used to build custom share buttons for the federated social networks:

<a
  href="https://s2f.kytta.dev/?text=Hello%20world!&instance=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.xyz"
>
  Share on mastodon.xyz
</a>

The instance URL can be saved in your localStorage to be automatically appended if used later—handy!

Hosting

One-click Vercel deploy

Share₂Fedi is designed to run on Vercel. To deploy it yourself (it's free!), you can use the following button:

Host it yourself

Self-hosting Share₂Fedi outside of Vercel requires some extra setup:

Prerequisites: modern Node.js (v16 or later), pnpm.

1. Install the dependencies:

   pnpm install
   

2. Build the static files:

   pnpm build
   

3. Run the backend server for the form:

   node api/share.js
   

   alternatively, if you want to run the process in the background:

   pm2 start api/share.js --watch --ignore-watch="node_modules"
   

   You can find a summary for pm2 at: https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/quick-start/

4. Set up a web server

   Basically, you need to run a server that would proxy the requests to /api/share. to the Node.js server you started. Here's how to achieve this in various HTTP servers:

   1. Apache

   DocumentRoot "<PATH_TO_SHARE2FEDI>/dist"
   
   ProxyPass "/api/share"  "http://localhost:8080/"
   

   2. Nginx

   root <PATH_TO_SHARE2FEDI>/dist;
   index.html;
   
   location /api/share {
       proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/;
   }
   

   3. Caddy

   root * <PATH_TO_SHARE2FEDI>/dist;
   try_files index.html
   
   handle_path /api/share {
      reverse_proxy localhost:8080
   }
   

See also

📯 Shareon (lightweight, stylish, and ethical share buttons) uses Share₂Fedi under the hood!

Licence

© 2020–2022 Nikita Karamov
Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.

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This project is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/kytta/share2fedi.git