Any computer program can be designed to run from a single file if you architect it wrong enough! I wanted to create the simplest possible Fediverse server which can be used as an educational tool to show how ActivityPub / Mastodon works. The design goals were: Upload a single PHP file to the server. No databases or separate config files. Single Actor (i.e. not multi-user). Allow the Actor to be followed. Post plain-text messages to followers. Be roughly standards compliant. And those…
  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
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    10 months ago

    Again, this is not suitable for any real world use. This is an educational tool

    This is a fully usable bot-in-a-box for Mastodon, you say? Thank you! 😇

  • dan@upvote.au
    6·
    10 months ago

    Seems like decent example code.

    Technically any PHP site could be in a single file. You can even embed images if you base64 encode them.

    I guess what they mean is a single file with a reasonable size.