Interplanetary File Dumpster

An imageboard, but images are stored in a peer-to-peer network

Features:

• Easy file sharing without registration and SMS. Supports images, video and audio files.
• Files are not stored on the disk, but are uploaded to the peer-to-peer IPFS network instead.
• IPFS gateway is configurable. Use your own or any other public gateway to host uploaded files.
• RSS feeds.
• Comments and up/down votes.
• Premoderation mode toggle.

Requirements

• PostgreSQL database
• IPFS node
• Go 1.15.2 (only for building)
• A web server is recommended, i.e. nginx

Build

• git clone repo
• run make

Install

• copy (or symlink) static/ and templates/ directories to your location, i.e. /etc/ipfd
• copy config.example to your location, i.e. /etc/ipfd/config
• edit the config file
• install database schema from migrations/xxx_init.up.sql file
• optionally, configure nginx as a reverse proxy

Look inside contrib/ directory for systemd and nginx config files.

Run

./ipfd -config /etc/ipfd/config

Config options

• SITE_URL, website url, i.e. https://example.org
• SITE_NAME, website title
• BIND_ADDRESS, bind ipfd web server to this address
• DATABASE_URL, postgresql connection string
• TEMPLATES_PATH, path to templates, i.e. /etc/ipfd/templates
• STATIC_URL, URL to static files
• STATIC_PATH, path to static files, i.e. /etc/ipfd/static
• SERVE_STATIC, if you want to serve static with nginx, set this to false
• IPFS_API, IPFS node settings, by default it should be /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001
• IPFS_GATEWAY, URL of IPFS gateway
• IPFS_PIN, files are not pinned in the IPFS repository if set to false
• MAX_FILESIZE, maximum uploaded file size in bytes
• ALLOWED_CONTENT_TYPES, which MIME file types are allowed
• PREMODERATION, if true, posts are not displayed until admin approves them manually