nederlandskie

A Bluesky feed generator written in Rust.

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

• Posts are stored in PostgreSQL via sqlx and scooby
• Language of posts is determined via lingua-rs
• Country of residence is inferred from profile information through ChatGPT via chat-gpt-lib-rs
• Feed is served via axum
• Intefacing with Bluesky is implemented using atrium-api

Deployed in production at https://nederlandskie.plansfortheday.org/

Published on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:376mcc6k4s5p7qbtyjrgph5k/feed/nederlandskie.

Setup

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 for development

1. Make sure you have docker-compose set up and functioning

2. Start the processes through the included Makefile:

   make run-dev

   The feed will be available at http://localhost:3030/.

Tools

Determine your own did for publishing

cargo run --bin who_am_i

Publish the feed

cargo run --bin publish_feed -- --help

Force a profile to be in a certain country

cargo run --bin force_profile_country -- --help

Cross-compiling on non-Linux machines to deploy on Linux

1. Install cross by following their installation guide

2. Build the binaries in release mode:

make cross-build-release

3. Deploy the binaries in target/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/ as you see fit