nederlandskie/README.md

nederlandskie

A Bluesky feed generator written in Rust.

The specific algorithm indexes and serves posts written in Russian language, by people living in Netherlands.

Not fully complete yet, see roadmap.

Roadmap

• Read stream of posts from Bluesky
• Store posts in the database
• Store user profiles in the database
• Detect the country of residence from profile information
• Keep subscription state to not lose messages
• Serve the feed
• Handle deleting of posts
• Handle errors in the web service gracefully
• Handle missing profiles in the profile classifier
• Add a way to mark a profile as being from a certain country manually
• Handle reconnecting to websocket somehow
• Publish the feed

Configuration

1. Copy .env.example into .env and set up the environment variables within:

   • PUBLISHER_BLUESKY_HANDLE to your Bluesky handle
   • PUBLISHER_BLUESKY_PASSWORD to Bluesky app password that you created in settings
   • CHAT_GPT_API_KEY for your ChatGPT key
   • DATABASE_URL for PostgreSQL credentials
   • FEED_GENERATOR_HOSTNAME to the hostname of where you intend to host the feed

2. Determine your own DID and put it in PUBLISHER_DID env variable in .env:

   cargo run --bin who_am_i
   

Running

Populate and serve the feed

cargo run

Determine your own did for publishing

cargo run --bin who_am_i

Publish the feed

cargo run --bin publish_feed -- --help