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Dev tools · June 14, 2023

Jonline, AGPLv3 Social Network Built with Rust, Flutter, React, gRPC

I have two instances that I'd love to see HN hug to death at https://jonline.io (to which I manually deploy) and https://getj.online (which is deployed to for any commit to main on GitHub). They're both running (side by side, in their own namespaces) on a bare minimum 2GB/50GB DigitalOcean droplet using DOKS (DigitalOcean Kubernetes). The configurations are in: https://github.com/JonLatane/jonline/tree/main/deploys/k8s So far this is a solo endeavor, but with my recent CI integrations and consolidations of things within the…

Jonline, AGPLv3 Social Network Built with Rust, Flutter, React, gRPC launched on June 14, 2023 with 55 votes, #1,464 of 4,655 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

In plain words

Jonline is an open-source social network built with Rust, Flutter, React, and gRPC, released under AGPLv3. It is for developers interested in contributing to or running their own social platform instance. The project stands out for its modern technology stack, automated deployment pipeline on Kubernetes, and the creator's invitation for community contributions through labeled beginner-friendly issues.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Delightful federated gRPC social network implemented in Rust and Elm (+ older React and Flutter FEs). Email/SMTP, web push, iCal; Facebook, Instagram, X (plus others) post/event push; Gemini, OpenAI image editing; Mastodon/BlueSky cross-protocol. Packages for macOS/Homebrew and Linux that can run locally or deploy to a k8s namespace in seconds. - JonLatane/rellm

In the maker’s words, at launch

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