Hatsu
Hatsu is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Social & Forums category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Rust. It ships a Docker image. It has 259 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 1, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 259
- Forks
- 8
- Open issues
- 10
- Commits, last 12 months
- 12
- Last commit
- Oct 1, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.3.5Oct 1, 2026
- Created
- Jul 19, 2023
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 1, 2026, last release Oct 1, 2026.
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 1, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 12 |
| Latest release | v0.3.5 (Oct 1, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 2 |
| Releases, all time | 34 |
| Open issues | 10 |
| Open pull requests | 0 |
| Good first issues | 1 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jul 19, 2023 |
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About Hatsu
Bridge that interacts with Fediverse on behalf of your static site.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/importantimport/hatsu.
Topics
- activitypub
- federation
- fediverse
- rust
- hatsu
- activity-stream
- docker
- social-network
- webfinger
- hacktoberfest
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Is Hatsu free and open source?
Yes. Hatsu is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Hatsu with Docker?
Yes. Hatsu provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Hatsu?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Hatsu include Mastodon, Discourse and Flarum.
Is Hatsu actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Hatsu was on Oct 1, 2026 with 12 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.3.5, published Oct 1, 2026. It had 10 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.