GNU social

I worked across GNU social v2 and led the v3 effort, modernising a long-lived PHP codebase while preserving the interoperability and community practices that make federated software useful. The work was funded in part through the EU Horizon 2020 NGI0 Discovery Fund.

PHP
Symfony
ActivityPub
SQL
APIs
Linux

Canonical source ↗Website and documentation ↗ActivityPub material ↗

Architecture Modern PHP, Symfony, plugin boundaries and application structure.

Federation ActivityPub behaviour, APIs and interoperability across independent servers.

Backend Data modelling, attachments, storage and maintainable service boundaries.

Community Reviews, onboarding, mentoring, documentation and delivery planning.