Yarn.social is a decentralised self-hosted social media that has a privacy-first focus.
There are no ads, no tracking and no personal information is ever collected or stored.
Read more About Yarn.social
You are welcome to join one of the existing pods listed here:
| Pod | Location | Operator | Users |
|---|---|---|---|
| twtxt.net | Australia/Brisbane | @prologic | 45 |
| nfld | United Kingdom | @jlj | 4 |
| We.Love.Privacy.Club | Australia | @eldersnake | 2 |
| Yarn Pods | Australia/Perth | @screem | 1 |
| NetBros | US East | @david | 1 |
There is a native Mobile App for Yarn.social pods!
NOTE: The mobile app is being rebuilt and rebranded. Test versions can be found here
If you have Docker installed and available to run containers you can run a yarnd instance by simply running:
$ docker run -p 8000:8000 prologic/yarnd
Pre-compiled binaries can be found on the yarn Releases page,
and are compiled by James Mills and the *-checksums.txt.sig can be verified
with the GPG public key C1F16643ADFF61B4A39EA3FEAC4C014F1440EBD6.
Otherwise if you wish to compile from source and build yarnd yourself
(Be sure to have Go installed):
$ git clone https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn
$ cd yarn
$ make deps
$ make
Now run your instance by running:
yarnd
For options see yarnd --help.
Please refer to the Configuring your Pod guide for a production pod setup.
For other setups and community documentation on setting up a Yarn.social pod, please see Our Pod Owner’s WIki, you are also welcome to contribute to the Wiki!
Since Yarn.social is built upon the Twtxt spec with a few small extensions, all you need to do to join the network and participate in the growing number of users and conversations is have:
twtxt.txt file hosted somewhereavatar.png hosted next to your twtxt.txtFor the best experience your client should also support some of the Twtxt Extensions developed by Yarn.social’s development team and community. For example being able to participate in “threads” by implementing the Twt Subject and Twt Hash extensions and the Metadata extensions to advertise information about your feed such as a description and avatar.
Coming soon™
The following supporting services help to support the Yarn.social platform and are provided for the benefit of all users:
The project is managed by a self-hosted Gitea instance at https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial
yarnd self-hosted Yarn.social Pod server itself as well as the yarnc command-line client for posting and interacting with the yarnd API.yarnd API to provide a native mobile experience for users (in the process of being rebuilt).If you would like to help the project and contribute ideas, bug-fixes, improvements, etc, we’re always looking for new contributors and we still have loads of things to do!
Please reach out to @prologic or join our Gitea instance at https://git.mills.io/ and start filing issues and pull requests to the main project https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn
We have an IRC channel #yarn.social on the Libera.Chat IRC network. You are welcome to come chat to us and hang out.
Yarn.social is a decentralised social media platform that supports micro-blogging (Twts) and full blogging. Pods (or individual instances) are owned and operators by “Pod Owners” or “Pod Operators”. Pods can either be configured as single-user or multi-user (the default).
As such all Yarn.social pods share the following defaults Abuse and Privacy policies:
Note: The privacy policy applies to ALL Yarn.social pods as the software yarnd DOES NOT collect any personally identifiable information from users (PII), or any metadata or analytics of any kind nor does it send, sell or transfer any data from pods to any 3rd-parties.
Most of the software components here are licensed under the terms of the MIT License with the exception of the hosting platform.