Hostas

Hostas is:

• A swiss-army knife of indieweb & federation protocols
• A headless CMS designed to invoke the same developer experience as building a website with a static site generator

Hostas is very early in development and most of the core functionality has yet to be implemented. The long-term goal is for Hostas to offer optional, native support for a whole bunch of indieweb protocols (primarily ActivityPub and Webmentions, see the roadmap for details).

What is "SSG-style website construction?"

• Your unbuilt website is a directory of template files and subdirectories
• Paths from the website's root directory are equivalent to how they're accessed when served (i.e. /path/to/page.eex becomes example.com/path/to/page.html)
• Pages should be entirely static assets as much as possible in this context

Roadmap

Immediate-term goals:

• Core functionality
  • User authentication
  • Content streams
  • SSG-style website construction
• The "hostapi" native API

Planned protocol support:

• ActivityPub
• Webmentions

Possible support in the future:

• OStatus
• Zot
• Diaspora

Interfaces:

• Mastodon API
• Misskey and derivatives' API
• Micropub & Microsub