Socialhome HQ<p><strong>Socialhome v0.22.0 released, with a completely new UI!</strong></p>
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<p>This is a massive milestone for the <a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/socialhome/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Socialhome</a> project, one that could not have been possible without the hard work of <a class="mention" href="https://jase.social/u/alain/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@alain@jase.social</a>. If you have followed the Socialhome project, you'll know that Alain has been responsible for most of the development of project in the recent years. This includes rewriting the <a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/federation/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#federation</a> library to ensure <a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/activitypub/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> support is first class. More recently Alain has taken the challenge of rewriting the frontend, which has fallen into a rather poor state over the years.</p>
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<p>The new UI work is actually a coordination of two people working many years apart. Way back years ago <a class="mention" href="https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@lightone@mastodon.xyz</a> made some UI designs for a new Socialhome UI (thank you! <3). While the designs were not implemented for years, they were not forgotten. In 2023 Alain jumped to the challenge and started the full UI rewrite of the Socialhome frontend. This UI has now matured into a state that it is good for daily usage - which is the main focus of this release!</p>
<p>Currently, a Socialhome installation will still default to the old UI. If you do want to try out the new UI for example on <code>socialhome.network</code>, go to the account settings and toggle the "New UI" flag. Going back is also easy, should the new UI cause unforeseen issues (please do report!).</p>
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<p>If you are a server admin, see the <a href="https://codeberg.org/socialhome/socialhome-ui/src/branch/main/INSTALLATION.md" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">new UI installation instructions</a> for how to add the new UI to your instance.</p>
<p>This is not all! The releases of v0.21.0 and v0.22.0 also contain a bunch of other changes and fixes. Most notably;</p>
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<li>ActivityPub profiles are now richer, including bio and a larger picture, in addition to an avatar.</li>
<li>Many new API's to support the new UI, including session authentication, search, media upload, content fetching over uuid, profile organize and profile settings.</li>
<li>Whoosh has been replaced with Xapian as a search index backend.</li>
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<p>See the <a href="https://socialhome.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">full changelogs</a>. Additionally, the federation library has received a ton of changes and fixes which can be found <a href="https://codeberg.org/socialhome/federation/src/branch/master/CHANGELOG.md#0-26-0-2025-05-24" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Also, last but not least, we moved from GitLab to Codeberg. Check out the new <a href="https://codeberg.org/socialhome" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">repositories</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Installing and updating</strong></p>
<p>We recommend using the <a href="https://codeberg.org/socialhome/-/packages/container/socialhome/0.22.0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Docker images</a> (amd64/arm64).</p>
<p>Notes on how to use the Docker images can be found <a href="https://socialhome.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/docker.html#installation-docker" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">in the docs</a>.</p>
<p><strong>What is Socialhome?</strong></p>
<p>Socialhome is best described as a federated personal profile with social networking functionality. Users can create rich content using Markdown. All content can be pinned to the user profile and all content will federate to contacts in the federated social web. Federation happens using the ActivityPub and Diaspora protocols.</p>
<p>Please check the official site for more information about features. Naturally, the official site is a Socialhome profile itself.</p>
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<li><a href="https://socialhome.network" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Official site</a></li>
<li><a href="https://socialhome.readthedocs.io" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Documentation (for admins)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://codeberg.org/socialhome/socialhome" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Code repository</a> (<a href="https://github.com/jaywink/socialhome" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">GitHub mirror</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://matrix.to/#/#socialhome:federator.dev" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Chat room on Matrix</a></li>
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<p><strong>Try Socialhome?</strong></p>
<p>If you want to try Socialhome first before trying to install it, register at <a href="https://socialhome.network" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://socialhome.network</a> and then ping us with a comment on the user name chosen to get the account approved. You can also request account approval in the <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#socialhome:federator.dev" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">chat room</a>. This unfortunately approval step is due to spammers.</p>
<p><strong>Contribute</strong></p>
<p>Do you want to work on a Django and VueJS powered social network server? Join in the fun! We have easy to follow development environment setup documentation and <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#socialhome:federator.dev" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a friendly chat room</a> for questions.</p>
<p><a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/socialhome/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialhome</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/federation/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#federation</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/fediverse/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/activitypub/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#activitypub</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/diaspora/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#diaspora</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/django/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#django</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://socialhome.network/streams/tag/vuejs/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vuejs</a></p>