Your webstead away from home.
Federated personal site platform with built-in ActivityPub and threaded conversations. Not a forum, not a blog platform, but your own corner of the web that speaks ActivityPub and has threaded discussions built-in.
Early development. Currently implementing core features (5 of 22 steps complete).
Multi-tenant Architecture
- Each user gets
username.webstead.dev(or custom domain) - Subdomain routing with tenant isolation
- Row-level security with Current pattern
- TenantScoped concern for automatic scoping
Webstead Model
- Subdomain validation (3-63 chars, alphanumeric + hyphens)
- Custom domain support with DNS format validation
- Reserved subdomain protection (www, api, admin, etc.)
- JSONB settings column with GIN index
- One webstead per user
Post Model
- Draft/published/scheduled workflow
publish!,unpublish!methods- Scopes: draft, published, scheduled, recent
- Status helpers:
published?,draft?,scheduled? - Title required (1-300 chars)
- Body required for published posts
- Automatic webstead_id assignment
Comment Model
- Threaded via parent_id
- Supports federated actors
- Tenant-scoped
- ActivityPub federation (outbox, publisher, federation jobs)
- Webfinger endpoint for discovery
- Markdown rendering
- Threading UI
- Authentication and webstead creation flow
- Production deployment with wildcard DNS
- Rails 8.1
- PostgreSQL 16
- Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus)
- Tailwind CSS
- Ruby 3.3
nix-shell
bundle install
rails db:create
rails db:migraterails serverrails testSee ARCHITECTURE.md for detailed design decisions and implementation roadmap.
This project is being built using finna (multi-model AI debate and implementation tool). Each step is debated by Claude, Codex, and Gemini, then implemented and committed to a feature branch.
Progress: 5 of 22 steps complete
- Step 1: rails-app-setup
- Step 2: webstead-model
- Step 3: subdomain-routing
- Step 4: row-level-security
- Step 5: post-model
MIT