Tag: BookWyrm

BookWyrm speaks ActivityPub, but testing its federation capabilities locally can be tricky. Besides running two separate instances, there are a few caveats that complicate things further, namely that both instances need to run on their separate domain and they need to have an SSL certificate signed by a common certificate authority. Satisfying these caveats without…

Everything mentioned in this article is open-sourced as an Infrastructure as Code repository at chdorner/bookwyrm-infra. I’ve been running my BookWyrm instance for some time now, mainly as a means to get operating and admin experience while contributing to the development of the project. BookWyrm is a social reading and reviewing application, a sort of federated…