Dolphin

Dolphin is a lightweight ActivityPub server for personal (or team).

🍀 Why Dolphin

Dolphin is a fork of Misskey and a sister project of it. While inheriting attractive features such as reaction and high performance, it has been optimized for single-user use. As a result, it is easier to use and lighter.

Looking for a lightweight, high-performance ActivityPub server? Want to use Misskey, but is it heavy to use alone? Try Dolphin.

✨ Gallery

📊 Comparison

	Misskey	Dolphin	Mastodon
Reactions	✔️	✔️	❌
LTL	✔️	❌	✔️
STL	✔️	❌	❌
GTL	✔️	❌	✔️
Messaging	✔️	❌	❌
Games	✔️	❌	❌
Pages	✔️	❌	❌
List	✔️	✔️	✔️
Group	✔️	❌	❌

Build time

X axis represents seconds. Lower is better.

📦 Install

Create Dolphin user

Running dolphin as root is not a good idea so we need to create another user for that

For example:

adduser --disabled-password --disabled-login dolphin

Install dependencies

Please install and setup these softwares:

• Node.js >= 11.7.0
• PostgreSQL >= 10
• Redis

Install Dolphin

1. Connect to Dolphin user

   su - dolphin

2. Clone the Dolphin repo

   git clone -b master git://github.com/syuilo/dolphin.git

3. Navigate to Dolphin directory

   cd dolphin

4. Install Dolphin dependencies.

   npm i

Configure Dolphin

1. Copy the .config/example.yml and rename it to default.yml.

   cp .config/example.yml .config/default.yml

2. Edit default.yml

   e.g. vim .config/default.yml

Build Dolphin

Build dolphin with the following:

NODE_ENV=production npm run build

If you're on Debian...

You will need to install the `build-essential`, `python` package.

If you're still encountering errors about some modules...

Use node-gyp:

1. npx node-gyp configure
2. npx node-gyp build
3. NODE_ENV=production npm run build

Initialize database

npm run init

That is it.

Launch Dolphin

NODE_ENV=production npm start

Enjoy!

🆕 How to update your Dolphin

1. git pull
2. npm i
3. NODE_ENV=production npm run build
4. npm run migrate
5. Restart your Dolphin process to apply changes

🛠️ Contribution

Localization

Visit https://crowdin.com/project/dolphin-ap