Developing an
ActivityPub Relay with
Rails 8
S.H.
RubyWorld Conference 2024
Sponsor LT
2024-12-05
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Self Introduction
S.H.
ESM, Inc
Parser Club Member
Mastodon Administrator(通称：鯖缶)
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Today’s Topic
About ActivityPub Relay
Motivation
ActivityPub Relay
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ActivityPub Relay
Server
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ActivityPub Relay Server
Receive public post from joined server
Rebroadcast public post to other server
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Merits and Demerits
More fedelation for Fediverse
Server’s
Increased load to joined Fediverse
Server’s
The load on the relay server itself.
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Motivation
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Current Status
Relay Server out of number to
Fediverse Server’s
So, Tend to join a particular Relay
Server
Relay Server and Fediverse Server’s
on the load
Requires a lot of energy to set up
because of the use of Redis, DB, etc.
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In my opinion
More small Relay Server need to
decentralization
More easier setup to Relay Server
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Rails 8
Kamal 2 provide easy way to deploy
Solid Queue not use Redis
SQLite3 in production
Wouldn’t it be nice to create a relay
server in Rails 8?
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ActivityPub Relay
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ActivityPub Relay
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Feature
Support Mastodon and Misskey Relay
Also support Pleroma and Akkoma
Joined Server’s Dashboard
Job Dashboard
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Thoughts
Kamal 2 provide very easy deploy
Thruster provide auto update
certificate
Solid Queue not use Redis that very
easy way
Used SQLite3 in production that
makes easier to setup Database
Server