Gab Social is an open source and fully decentralized social network powered by the Gab Platform. It is the new social network of Gab.com. This change was made to further Gab's committment to it's users trust and privacy online. And, by offering decentralization and federation, Gab further demonstrates a lack of interest in the ownership of your data.
The Gab Social project is based on the [Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon) project, and is licensed under the terms and conditions of AGPL-3.0. While we will be keeping this license, over time we will be keeping less and less of the original project's source code and approach.
Our goal is to establish the foundation of a federated network of social networks. Our first step is our move to this technology, which immediately enables the construction of that network and provides the tools people will need to create and build. Over time, a new implementation of this system will emerge that is entirely based on Node.js, moves away from Postgres as it's database, and becomes part of the HYDRA family.
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## Deployment
**Tech stack:**
- **Ruby on Rails** powers the REST API and other web pages
- **React.js** and Redux are used for the dynamic parts of the interface
- **Node.js** powers the streaming API
**Requirements:**
- **PostgreSQL** 9.5+
- **Redis**
- **Ruby** 2.4+
- **Node.js** 8+
The repository includes deployment configurations for **Docker and docker-compose**, but also a few specific platforms like **Heroku**, **Scalingo**, and **Nanobox**.
A **stand-alone** installation guide will be provided as soon as possible.
To get started developing on Gab, you will need to run a version of it locally.
The following instructions assume you are already familiar with using a terminal program.
1. Install [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) and [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/) if you haven't already.
2. Clone this repository with `git clone https://code.gab.com/gab/social/gab-social.git`
3. Change into the project directory with `cd gab-social`
4. Run `vagrant up` to provision the virtual machine. This will take a while.
5. Finally, run `vagrant ssh -c "cd /vagrant && foreman start"` to start the local web server.
6. Visit http://0.0.0.0:3000 in your web browser to see Gab's splash screen. If it doesn't load, or styling is missing, wait another minute and refresh the page.
7. Log in with the username `admin` and password `administrator`
Copyright (C) 2019 Gab AI, Inc., and other contributors (see [AUTHORS.md](AUTHORS.md), forked)
Copyright (C) 2016-2019 Eugen Rochko & other Gab Social contributors
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
