# Paper: Decentralised Hashtag Search and Subscription for Federated Social Networks

This paper has been written during my Computer Science studies at [TU Dresden](https://inf.tu-dresden.de/) as a *Großer Beleg*.  
A pre-compiled PDF of the paper can be found in [paper_hashtag_federation.pdf](paper_hashtag_federation.pdf).  
The slides of my talk at [ActivityPub Conf](https://redaktor.me/apconf/) can be found in [talk-slides.pdf](talk-slides.pdf).

## Building

### Build Requirements

All required software for this project can be installed using the [Nix package manager](https://nixos.org/nix/).  
The development environment is specified in `shell.nix`.  The paper has been successfully build using version `19.03.173179.ef4753de2aa` of [Nixpkgs](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/).

`git-lfs` is required for retrieving all files from this repository.  If installing it *after* cloning the repository, please run `git lfs install && git lfs pull`.

### Building the paper and its resources

The paper, expose, and all its resources can be built with `nix-shell --pure --command "make"`.  
If not using Nix as a package manager, please refer to the requirements specified in `shell.nix` for building with `make`.

### Running the load balancing simulation

`nix-shell --pure --command "make simulation"`

## License

For information about licensing, please see [Copying.md](Copying.md)