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2link: https://frequency.app
3tags:
4 - ActivityPub
5 - Mastodon
6 - photos
7 - privacy
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9A social media app for private sharing of photos with friends and family.
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11<blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvgmoeirec2h" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreiatu2l2vbr3fj5hrxp2kjkj2lxq3xxmrfmwve6p2flndjyvgzb5va" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="en">It was great meeting @jesseplusplus.bsky.social at #FediCon
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13She’s the developer of Frequency frequency.app which is a private only photo sharing app that runs on a forked Mastodon back end called Decodon
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15github.com/jesseplusplu...<br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/post/3lvgmoeirec2h?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p>— Boris (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43?ref_src=embed">@bmann.ca</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/post/3lvgmoeirec2h?ref_src=embed">August 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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17Built on React Native for the mobile app on iOS, and the backend is a fork of [[Mastodon]] called [Decodon](https://github.com/jesseplusplus/decodon) "a media-focused fork of mastodon that supports only private/followers-only accounts".
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19Built by Jesse Karmani [@jesseplusplus@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/@jesseplusplus) / [@jesseplusplus.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/jesseplusplus.bsky.social)
20## Decodon
21
22- All accounts are locked/private, meaning content is only distributed to followers [jesseplusplus/decodon#1](https://github.com/jesseplusplus/decodon/pull/1)
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24- Support for push notifications to Expo-based apps [jesseplusplus/decodon#2](https://github.com/jesseplusplus/decodon/pull/2)
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26- Pre-signed URLs for extra-secure storage of uploaded private media [jesseplusplus/decodon#9](https://github.com/jesseplusplus/decodon/pull/9)
27
28- replies are treated more like comments and are filtered from the home feed [jesseplusplus/decodon#3](https://github.com/jesseplusplus/decodon/pull/3)
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30- circles (lists of followers you can address posts to instead of only followers) - cherry-picked from [fedibird](https://github.com/fedibird/mastodon) - [jesseplusplus/decodon#13](https://github.com/jesseplusplus/decodon/pull/13)
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32- default "inner circle" for all accounts to get them started - [jesseplusplus/decodon#14](https://github.com/jesseplusplus/decodon/pull/14)
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34- timeline markers for accounts' feed of updates - [jesseplusplus/decodon#189](https://github.com/jesseplusplus/decodon/pull/189)
35
36- more control over logo and branding in email templates [jesseplusplus/decodon#10](https://github.com/jesseplusplus/decodon/pull/10)
37
38- updated heroku deployment configs