pubspace/README.md

pubspace

WARNING: this was an experimental prototype to understand if an "always-on" intermediary service could facilitate digital publishing practices in the lumbung.space. We have since moved to the idea of a slow and not real-time mode of publishing which will happen in another repository.

A service to facilitate collective digital publishing practices.

How does publishing happen?

cloud.lumbung.space

WARNING: Only file sharing is implemented

• When a file is tagged with the publish tag, a share link will be generated
• This share link will be shown on the publish.lumbung.space prototype page

social.lumbung.space

• When a toot uses the hashtag #pubspace (a comment on a thread will also "unroll" the entire thread)
• Only toots with visibility: public will be published. Local only posts and otherwise private posts are respected.
• This toot link will be shown on the publish.lumbung.space prototype page

tv.lumbung.space

• When someone comments on a published video using the #pubspace hashtag
• This toot link will be shown on the publish.lumbung.space prototype page

Supported services

• cloud.lumbung.space (Nextcloud)
• tv.lumbung.space (Peertube)
• social.lumbung.space (Hometown)

Nextcloud flow script

See the pubspace.sh script. This is manually copied over into /var/www/html/pubspace/pubspace.sh for now. There is a workflow scripts rule configured that when a file is tagged, the script is run. The script sends the filename to this service and then we use the pyocclient to generate a share for that file. The Nextcloud crontab runs the script.

Deployment

Work In Progress

$ printf $YOURMASTODONACCESSTOKEN | docker secret create  publish_lumbung_space_access_token_v1 -
$ printf $YOURNEXTCLOUDAPPPASSWORD | docker secret create  publish_lumbung_space_app_password_v1 -
$ cp .env.sample .env  # and update the values to match the environment
$ set -a && source .env && set +a
$ docker stack deploy -c compose.yml publish_lumbung_space