fx

Overview

An efficient (micro)blogging service that you can self-host The project has 293 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

• 🚀 Low costs due to small footprint (only a few MB of memory are required).
• 📝 Write posts in Markdown.
• 🖥 Built-in syntax highlighting.
• ∑ Built-in display for math expressions (LaTeX syntax, e.g. $E=mc^2$).
• 📱 Publish and edit from desktop or mobile device.
• 📁 Upload files and images to embed them in posts.
• 🔒 Automatically backup to plain text files, see Backup.
• 🔭 Follow RSS feeds.

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

services:
  fx:
    image: 'rikhuijzer/fx:1'
    container_name: 'fx'
    environment:
      FX_USERNAME: 'john'
      FX_DOMAIN: 'example.com'
    env_file:
      # Contains `FX_PASSWORD=""`.
      - 'FX_PASSWORD.env'
    ports:
      - '3000:3000'
    volumes:
      # Stores the SQLite database.
      - './data:/data:rw'
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD', '/fx', 'check-health']
    restart: 'unless-stopped'

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

backup restore, docker, docker compose, rest api, rss atom, sqlite.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

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