> Instance-agnostic share page for the Fediverse.
**[Share₂Fedi]** allows you to share stuff on Mastodon, GoToSocial, Pleroma, and other federated social networks, instance-agnostic. Just type in the post text and the instance URL, and click ‘Post!’
Or, open this page with the prefilled `text` URL parameter—it will be automatically inserted into the text field. The same goes for the `instance` URL parameter. This can be used to build custom share buttons for the federated social networks:
```html
Share on mastodon.xyz
```
The instance URL can be saved in your `localStorage` to be automatically appended if used later—handy!
## Hosting
### One-click Vercel deploy
**Share₂Fedi** is designed to run on [Vercel](https://vercel.com/).
To deploy it yourself (it's free!), you can use the following button:
[](https://vercel.com/new/clone?repository-url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fkytta%2Fshare2fedi)
### Host it yourself
Self-hosting **Share₂Fedi** outside of Vercel requires some extra setup:
**Prerequisites:** modern Node.js (v16 or later), `pnpm`.
1. Install the dependencies:
```sh
pnpm install
```
2. Build the static files:
```sh
pnpm build
```
3. Run the backend server for the form:
```sh
node api/share.js
```
alternatively, if you want to run the process in the background:
```sh
pm2 start api/share.js --watch --ignore-watch="node_modules"
```
> You can find a summary for pm2 at: https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/quick-start/
4. Set up a web server
Basically, you need to run a server that would proxy the requests to `/api/share`.
to the Node.js server you started. Here's how to achieve this in various HTTP
servers:
1. Apache
```apacheconf
DocumentRoot "/dist"
ProxyPass "/api/share" "http://localhost:8080/"
```
2. Nginx
```nginxconf
root /dist;
index.html;
location /api/share {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/;
}
```
3. Caddy
```caddy
root * /dist;
try_files index.html
handle_path /api/share {
reverse_proxy localhost:8080
}
```
## See also
**[📯 Shareon](https://shareon.js.org)**
(lightweight, stylish, and ethical share buttons) uses **Share₂Fedi** under the hood!
## Licence
© 2020–2022 [Nikita Karamov]\
Licensed under the [GNU Affero General Public License, version 3][AGPL-3.0].
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This project is hosted on GitHub:
[AGPL-3.0]: https://spdx.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0-only.html
[Nikita Karamov]: https://www.kytta.dev
[Share₂Fedi]: https://s2f.kytta.dev/