Capybara is a Mastodon clone - it will function practically identically to Mastodon, both under the hood and through its exposed APIs.
For fun, and because although I love Eugen's work, I'm wondering if putting the backend in Go might make things go faster.
All of the code will be designed independently of Mastodon, but the underlying schema and interface (including the database layout and API route) will be, for compatibility and cleanliness purposes, identical to the best of my ability.
Currently, this project is just barely getting started, so I have no advice or recommendations aside from "this isn't even close to working."
Since Capybara is derivative, this will include two license notices - one for Capybara's side of the code (the application itself) and one for the API/database design (from Mastodon). Most of the credit should go to Eugen and the beautiful people working on Mastodon - this is just a tribute.
Copyight (C) 2018 CalmBit.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
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Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Eugen Rochko & other Mastodon contributors (see AUTHORS.md)
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