🌎 Calckey is an open source, decentralized social media platform that's free forever! 🚀

✨ About Calckey

• Calckey is based off of Misskey, a powerful microblogging server on ActivityPub with features such as emoji reactions, a customizable web UI, rich chatting, and much more!
• Calckey adds many quality of life changes and bug fixes for users and instance admins alike.
• Read this document all for current and future differences.
• Notable differences:
  • Improved UI/UX (especially on mobile)
  • Improved notifications
  • Improved instance security
  • Recommended Instances timeline
  • OCR image captioning
  • New and improved Groups
  • Better intro tutorial
  • Many more user and admin settings
  • So much more!

🥂 Links

• 💸 Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/ThatOneCalculator
• 💁 Matrix support room: https://matrix.to/#/#calckey:matrix.fedibird.com
• 📜 Instance list: https://calckey.fediverse.observer/list
• 📖 JoinFediverse Wiki: https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_Calckey%3F
• 🐋 Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/thatonecalculator/calckey

🌠 Getting started

This guide will work for both starting from scratch and migrating from Misskey.

📦 Dependencies

• At least 🐢 NodeJS v16.15.0 (v18.12.1 recommended)

⚠️ NodeJS v19 is not supported as of right now because of this issue.

• 🐘 At least PostgreSQL v12

• 🍱 At least Redis v6 (v7 recommended)

• 🛰️ (Optional, for non-Docker) pm2

👀 Get folder ready

git clone https://codeberg.org/thatonecalculator/calckey.git
cd calckey/
# git checkout main # if you want only stable versions

📩 Install dependencies

# nvm install 18 && nvm alias default 18 && nvm use 18
corepack enable

💅 Customize

• To add custom CSS for all users, edit ./custom/instance.css.
• To add static assets (such as images for the splash screen), place them in the ./custom/ directory. They'll then be avaliable on https://yourinstance.tld/static-assets/filename.ext.
• To update custom assets without rebuilding, just run yarn run gulp.

🧑‍🔬 Configuring a new instance

• Run cp .config/example.yml .config/default.yml
• Edit .config/default.yml, making sure to fill out required fields.
• Also copy and edit .config/docker_example.env to .config/docker.env if you're using Docker.

🚚 Migrating from Misskey to Calckey

⚠️ Because of their changes, migrating from Foundkey is not supported.

cp ../misskey/.config/default.yml ./.config/default.yml # replace `../misskey/` with misskey path, add `docker.env` if you use Docker
cp -r ../misskey/files . # if you don't use object storage

🍀 NGINX

Click to see an example NGINX config:

# Replace example.tld with your domain

# For WebSocket
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
    default upgrade;
    ''      close;
}

proxy_cache_path /tmp/nginx_cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=cache1:16m max_size=1g inactive=720m use_temp_path=off;

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name example.tld;

    # For SSL domain validation
    root /var/www/html;
    location /.well-known/acme-challenge/ { allow all; }
    location /.well-known/pki-validation/ { allow all; }
    location / { return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri; }
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
    server_name example.tld;

    ssl_session_timeout 1d;
    ssl_session_cache shared:ssl_session_cache:10m;
    ssl_session_tickets off;

    # To use Let's Encrypt certificate
    ssl_certificate     /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.tld/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.tld/privkey.pem;

    # To use Debian/Ubuntu's self-signed certificate (For testing or before issuing a certificate)
    #ssl_certificate     /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem;
    #ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key;

    # SSL protocol settings
    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
    ssl_ciphers ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers off;
    ssl_stapling on;
    ssl_stapling_verify on;

    # Change to your upload limit
    client_max_body_size 80m;

    # Proxy to Node
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_redirect off;

        # If it's behind another reverse proxy or CDN, remove the following.
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;

        # For WebSocket
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;

        # Cache settings
        proxy_cache cache1;
        proxy_cache_lock on;
        proxy_cache_use_stale updating;
        add_header X-Cache $upstream_cache_status;
    }
}

🚀 Build and launch!

🐢 NodeJS

git pull and run these steps to update Calckey in the future!

# git pull
yarn install
NODE_ENV=production yarn run build && yarn run migrate
pm2 start "NODE_ENV=production yarn start" --name Calckey

🐋 Prebuilt Docker image

docker pull thatonecalculator/calckey
docker up -d

🐳 Docker Compose

sudo docker compose build
sudo docker-compose run --rm web yarn run init
sudo docker compose up -d

😉 Tips & Tricks

• I'd strongly recommend against using CloudFlare, but if you do, make sure to turn code minification off.
• For push notifications, run npx web-push generate-vapid-keys, the put the public and private keys into Control Panel > General > ServiceWorker.
• For translations, make a DeepL account and generate an API key, then put it into Control Panel > General > DeepL Translation.
• To add another admin account:
  • Go to the user's page > 3 Dots > About > Moderation > turn on "Moderator"
  • Go back to Overview > click the clipboard icon next to the ID
  • Run psql -d calckey (or whatever the database name is)
  • Run UPDATE "user" SET "isAdmin" = true WHERE id='999999'; (replace 999999 with the copied ID)
  • Have the new admin log out and log back in