Patchwork

Created & maintained by the Newsmast Foundation.

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Welcome to the Patchwork wiki.

Patchwork brings new layers and services to ActivityPub networks, opening up new spaces for innovation.

Patchwork supports and enhances the running of existing base level server software, such as Mastodon, as well as user facing platforms and apps built on top of them. It delivers new features and tools in the form of easy to use plug-ins, cloud based servers and micro-servers.

Enhancements made to a server by Patchwork are open to be read and processed by any Fediverse app with a few small tweaks. Please see the section on Hooks for more detail.

Support is always available. Patchwork goes hand in hand with channel.org, a social web accelerator programme run by the Newsmast Foundation, helping organisations to discover, understand and get the most out of the social web.

Simply get in touch with us at [email protected] or through our LinkedIn or Mastodon profiles

For now, Patchwork will only work in conjunction with a Mastodon server but our ambition is to be platform agnostic.

Contents

1. Home
2. Overview
3. Patchwork Basic
4. Hubs
5. Channels
6. Apps
7. Hooks
8. channel.org
9. Is Patchwork for me?
10. The Newsmast Foundation
11. Installation guide
12. Contributions
13. Licensing
14. Roadmap

See a Patchwork server in action

The full version of Patchwork supports our flagship service, Newsmast.

To see all Patchwork has to offer, get Newsmast as a mobile app on iOS & Android. Or go to newsmast.org for the web experience. You can also get Newsmast for desktop by installing it through the web app.

Patchwork began with Newsmast and much of what is on offer in Patchwork was developed and tested through Newsmast.