Gallinula Forum is a semi-closed social platform, which is only open to DKU community members. Registration is based on the campus email address. Community content is kept private by default, but community members have the option to share it externally.
It inherits most of the functions of mainstream social media (Twitter), including posting, commenting, reposting, favorites, and sharing posts to other platforms; posting pictures, voting, and topic discussions. At the same time, it also supports private chats, groups Chat, email alerts and more.
Gallinula Forum is derived from the open source project Mastodon. Similar projects include: closed forums in famous universities such as Tsinghua Closed Forum (https://thu.closed.social) and SJTU Closed Forum (https://sjtu.closed.social). Based on the distributed feature of Mastodon, content between different sites can be shared with each other, and users of different sites can communicate with each other. After the Gallinula platform has accumulated a certain number of people and the alumni network of Duke Kunshan University has grown, we can negotiate to open access to other university forums, allowing students to communicate with friends across servers.
