The Most Overkill Messaging App in the World.

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Mikoto is an messaging platform designed for building online communities. It uses a thread-based structure for text messaging, voice/video chat, and real-time collaborative wiki editing.

Note: Mikoto is still in early development. Some of these features are not fully implemented.

• ✨ Open Source (with proprietary extensions for enterprise support)
• ⚡️ Superuser friendly features, like tab view, zen mode and, keyboard shortcuts and more
• 📡 Voice, video, and screen sharing
• 📝 Real-time collaborative wiki channels
• 🧵 Next-generation thread management
• 🏡 Threaded DMs and group DMs
• 🎨 Customizable themes and appearances

and upcoming features:

• 🪐 DID-based usernames
• 🔒 E2E encrypted DMs and Group DMs
• 🔍 Semantic search across all channels
• 🔌 Pluggable architecture for custom extensions
• 🛒 A marketplace for extensions and integrations
• 🌎 Built-in community finder
• 🥸 A system to handle multiple personas and identities

Prerequisites:

• Docker
• Rust 1.81+
• Node.js 22+
• sqlx CLI (cargo install sqlx-cli --no-default-features --features rustls,postgres)
• Moonrepo

# use corepack
corepack enable

# install dependencies
pnpm install

# Copy .env.example to .env and set the variables
cp ./apps/superego/.env.example ./apps/superego/.env

# migrate database (run in superego directory)
sqlx database create && sqlx migrate run

# start services (PostgreSQL, Redis, MinIO, etc.)
docker-compose up

Mikoto uses a Moon-based monorepo.

Use Docker Compose to run the necessary services.

To develop apps and packages, run the following command:

cargo run --bin superego # Backend
cargo run --bin content-proxy # CDN

cd ./apps/client && pnpm start # Frontend-

To build all apps and packages, run the following command:

yarn build

All Mikoto services use ports in the 351X or 351XX range to avoid conflicts with other common services:

While we're still an early-stage project and the licensing may change in the future, Mikoto is currently dual licensed under AGPL core and a proprietary license. Please email cactus (at) mikoto.io if you are interested in enterprise uses for Mikoto.