hostas/README.md

# Hostas

Hostas is:
- A swiss-army knife of indieweb & federation protocols
- A headless CMS designed to invoke the same developer experience as building a website with a static site generator

Hostas is very early in development and most of the core functionality has yet to be implemented. The long-term goal is for Hostas to offer optional, native support for a whole bunch of indieweb protocols (primarily ActivityPub and Webmentions, see the roadmap for details).

## What is "SSG-style website construction?"

* Your unbuilt website is a directory of template files and subdirectories
* Paths from the website's root directory are equivalent to how they're accessed when served (i.e. /path/to/page.eex becomes example.com/path/to/page.html)
* Pages should be entirely static assets as much as possible in this context

## Roadmap
Immediate-term goals:
- Core functionality
  * User authentication
  * Content streams
  * SSG-style website construction
- The "hostapi" native API

Planned protocol support:
- ActivityPub
- Webmentions

Possible support in the future:
- OStatus
- Zot
- Diaspora

Interfaces:
- Mastodon API
- Misskey and derivatives' API
- Micropub & Microsub