underBBS
underBBS is a protocol-agnostic decentralized social media client and toolkit
design
underbbs can run in two modes depending on its executable name:
web client
underbbs supports multiple simultaneous account logins, mediating them for each user through a gateway server that handles all protocol-specific logic via adapters and streaming content to the user through a single websocket connection with a singular data interface.
each distinct adapter connection/configuration is represented in the frontend as a tab, and using the websocket’s event-driven javascript interface with web components we can simply either store the data or tell the currently visible adapter that it might need to respond to the new data
adapters receive commands via a quartzgun web API and send data back on their shared websocket connection
CLI
underbbs-cli pulls adapter credentials from ~/.config/underbbs/cli.conf and accepts commands on individual adapters, printing data to standard output.
building and running
requirements are
- go 1.22
- any recent nodejs that can do
typescriptandwebpack5
from the project root:
./build.sh front./build.sh server./underbbs
visit http://localhost:9090/app