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! colspan="2" |Account/channel role
! colspan="2" |Account/channel role
! rowspan="2" |Account/channel<br />verification
! rowspan="2" |Account/channel<br />verification
! colspan="2" |OpenWebAuth<br />single sign-on
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! Your<br />login<br />recognised
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Revision as of 07:13, 17 September 2023

This article is a draft!
A lot of info might still be missing and the page might change at any time.

Basic info

Main medium Type Based on Name Links
Homepage Wikipedia (en) Fedi observer FediDB FediParty
Text Microblogging Mastodon Mastodon joinmastodon.org Mastodon (social network) mastodon mastodon mastodon
Ecko magicstone.dev ecko ecko
Fedibird fedibird fedibird
Glitch-soc glitch-soc.github.io/docs
Hometown hometown hometown
koyu.space
Smalltown
Pleroma Pleroma pleroma.social pleroma pleroma pleroma
Akkoma akkoma.social akkoma akkoma
Misskey Misskey misskey-hub.net misskey misskey misskey
Firefish joinfirefish.org firefish firefish firefish
FoundKey
GNU social gnusocial.rocks GNU social gnusocial gnusocial gnusocial
GoToSocial GoToSocial gotosocial.org gotosocial gotosocial
Pump.io Pump.io pump.io Pump.io
Identi.ca Identi.ca Identi.ca
Takahē Takahē jointakahe.org takahē
Epicyon Epicyon epicyon.net epicyon
Micro.blog Micro.blog micro.blog Micro.blog
Tumblr Tumblr tumblr.com Tumblr Centralised
Bonfire Bonfire bonfirenetworks.org
Swanye Swanye
Threads Threads threads.net Threads (social network) Centralised
Social Network Friendica Friendica friendi.ca Friendica Friendica Friendica Friendica
diaspora* diaspora* diasporafoundation.org Diaspora (software) diaspora
Acropolis
Friendica
Red Matrix
Osada
Zap...
Roadhouse 		(streams) None, only code repository Intentionally absent, impossible to crawl
SocialHome Socialhome socialhome
Honk Honk tedunangst.com/honk honk
Multi-purpose Friendica
Red Matrix 		Hubzilla hubzilla.org Hubzilla Hubzilla Hubzilla
Blogging WriteFreely WriteFreely writefreely.org writefreely
Plume Plume joinplu.me plume
Website (CMS) WordPress WordPress wordpress.org
Drupal Drupal drupal.org Drupal
Links & other Content aggregation Lemmy Lemmy join-lemmy.org lemmy
/kbin Kbin kbin.pub /kbin /kbin
Images Photoblogging Pixelfed Pixelfed pixelfed.org Pixelfed pixelfed pixelfed pixelfed
Flickr Flickr flickr.com Flickr Centralised
Videos Video hosting PeerTube PeerTube joinpeertube.org PeerTube peertube peertube peertube
Video streaming Owncast Owncast owncast.online
Video blogging Goldfish Goldfish
Audio Audio Hosting Funkwhale Funkwhale funkwhale.audio funkwhale
Castopod CastoPod castopod.org
reel2bits reel2bits reel2bits.org
Events Event Planning Mobilizon Mobilizon mobilizon.org Mobilizon mobilizon
Gancio Gancio gancio.org gancio
Cataloguing Book cataloguing BookWyrm BookWyrm joinbookwyrm.com bookwyrm
Inventaire Inventaire inventaire.io

User interface

Name Different
Web frontends 		Themes for
Web frontends 		Switchable
dark mode 		Public timelines
for instances for users 🎨 🔧 Local Federated
Mastodon ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ Manual ✔️ ✔️
Ecko ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ Manual ✔️ ✔️
Fedibird ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ Manual ✔️ ✔️
Glitch-soc ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ Manual ✔️ ✔️
Hometown ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ Manual ✔️ ✔️
koyu.space ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ Manual ✔️ ✔️
Smalltown ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ Manual ✔️ ✔️
Pleroma
Akkoma
Misskey
Firefish
FoundKey
GoToSocial
Pump.io
Identi.ca
Takahē
Epicyon
Micro.blog Single
user
Tumblr Centralised
Bonfire
Swanye
Threads Centralised
Friendica ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
diaspora*
Acropolis
(streams) Optional
Socialhome
Honk
Hubzilla Currently only one
supported frontend 		✔️ ✔️ Optionally
automatic 		Optional ✖️
WriteFreely ✖️ ✔️
Plume
WordPress
Drupal
Lemmy
Kbin
Pixelfed
Flickr Centralised
PeerTube
Owncast
Goldfish
Funkwhale
CastoPod
reel2bits
Mobilizon
Gancio
BookWyrm
Inventaire

Apps

Note: The Mastodon API makes it possible to use apps developed for Mastodon with a project. However, the available features will be limited to only Mastodon features included in the app.

Name Mastodon
API
support 		Project-specific desktop apps Project-specific mobile apps OAuth support
Official Windows macOS Linux Other Official iOS Android Other OAuth OAuth2
CLI GUI Google
Play Store 		F-Droid Client Server Client Server
Mastodon ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ 3rd-party only;
SailfishOS 		✖️ ✖️
Ecko ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Fedibird ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Glitch-soc ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Hometown ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
koyu.space ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Smalltown ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Pleroma ✖️
Akkoma ✖️
Misskey ✖️
Firefish ✖️
FoundKey ✖️
✖️
GoToSocial ✖️
Pump.io ✖️
Identi.ca ✖️
Takahē ✖️
Epicyon ✖️
Micro.blog ✖️
Tumblr
Bonfire ✖️
Swanye ✖️
Threads ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖️ ✖️
Friendica ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
diaspora* ✖️
Acropolis ✖️
(streams) ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Socialhome ✖️
Honk ✖️
Hubzilla ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ Defunct Defunct ✖️ Optional ✖️ Optional ✖️
WriteFreely ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Plume ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
WordPress ✖️
Drupal ✖️
Lemmy ✖️
Kbin ✖️
Pixelfed ✖️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ 3rd-party only
Flickr ✖️
PeerTube ✖️
Owncast ✖️
Goldfish ✖️
Funkwhale ✖️
CastoPod ✖️
reel2bits ✖️
Mobilizon ✖️
Gancio ✖️
BookWyrm ✖️
Inventaire ✖️

Accounts

Name Multiple
identities/channels
per account
with separate content
and separate connections 		Account/channel role Account/channel
verification 		OpenWebAuth
single sign-on
Variable
role 		Preset roles Your
login
recognised 		Recognises
logins
of others 		Limit to only
instances with
connections
Mastodon ✖️ ✖️ ✔️ Planned Planned?
Ecko ✖️ ✖️ ✔️
Fedibird ✖️ ✖️ ✔️
Glitch-soc ✖️ ✖️ ✔️
Hometown ✖️ ✖️ ✔️
koyu.space ✖️ ✖️ ✔️
Smalltown ✖️ ✖️ ✔️
Pleroma ✖️ ✖️
Akkoma ✖️ ✖️
Misskey ✖️ ✖️
Firefish ✖️ ✖️
FoundKey ✖️ ✖️
✖️ ✖️ ✖️
GoToSocial ✖️
Pump.io ✖️ ✖️
Identi.ca ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Takahē ✖️
Epicyon ✖️
Micro.blog ✖️
Tumblr ✖️
Bonfire ✖️
Swanye ✖️
Threads ✖️ ✖️
Friendica ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
diaspora* ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Acropolis ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
(streams) Unlimited ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️
Socialhome ✖️
Honk ✖️
Hubzilla Unlimited ✔️ ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
WriteFreely ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Plume ✖️ ✖️
WordPress ✖️
Drupal ✖️
Lemmy ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Kbin ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Pixelfed ✖️
Flickr ✖️
PeerTube ✖️
Owncast ✖️
Goldfish ✖️
Funkwhale ✖️
CastoPod ✖️
reel2bits ✖️
Mobilizon ✖️
Gancio ✖️
BookWyrm ✖️
Inventaire ✖️

Profiles

Name Multiple profiles per account/channel Profile fields
Number Assign to... Number Tag
field
Connections Groups
Mastodon ✖️
Ecko ✖️
Fedibird ✖️
Glitch-soc ✖️
Hometown ✖️
koyu.space ✖️
Smalltown ✖️
Pleroma
Akkoma
Misskey
Firefish
FoundKey
✖️
GoToSocial
Pump.io
Identi.ca ✖️
Takahē
Epicyon
Micro.blog
Tumblr ✖️
Bonfire
Swanye
Threads
Friendica Unlimited
diaspora* ✖️
Acropolis ✖️
(streams) Unlimited
Socialhome
Honk
Hubzilla Unlimited ✔️ ✖️ 29 free-text fields
3 lists 		✔️
WriteFreely ✖️
Plume ✖️
WordPress ✖️
Drupal ✖️
Lemmy ✖️
Kbin
Pixelfed
Flickr ✖️
PeerTube
Owncast
Goldfish
Funkwhale
CastoPod
reel2bits
Mobilizon
Gancio
BookWyrm
Inventaire

Moving

Name Move from where Take what with you Account/channel
import/export 		Nomadic identity
Instances
of the same
project 		Instances
with the same
underlying
protocol 		Instances
with a different
underlying
protocol 		Posts Profile(s) Followed Followers Images,
media,
other files 		Settings Export Import
Mastodon ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ ✖️ ✖️
Ecko ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
Fedibird ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
Glitch-soc ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
Hometown ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
koyu.space ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
Smalltown ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
Pleroma ✖️
Akkoma ✖️
Misskey ✖️
Firefish ✖️
FoundKey ✖️
✖️
GoToSocial ✖️
Pump.io ✖️
Identi.ca ✖️
Takahē ✖️
Epicyon ✖️
Micro.blog ✖️
Tumblr Centralised ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Bonfire ✖️
Swanye ✖️
Threads Centralised ✖️
Friendica ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
diaspora* ✖️
Acropolis ✖️
(streams) ✔️ ✔️ Zot6 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Socialhome ✖️
Honk ✖️
Hubzilla ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
WriteFreely ✖️
Plume ✖️
WordPress ✖️ ✖️
Drupal ✖️ ✖️
Lemmy ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Kbin ✖️
Pixelfed ✖️ ✖️ Instagram ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Flickr Centralised ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
PeerTube ✖️
Owncast ✖️
Goldfish ✖️
Funkwhale ✖️
CastoPod ✖️
reel2bits ✖️
Mobilizon ✖️
Gancio ✖️
BookWyrm ✖️
Inventaire ✖️

File uploads and file space

Name File space with
file manager 		Maximum
file size
(green =
adjustable) 		Subfolders Access permissions Flag images/media
as sensitive 		WebDAV
access
Adjustable
permissions 		Access permissions
control
for images/media
when embedded 		Guest tokens
Mastodon Uploads
to posts 		40MB ✖️
Ecko Uploads
to posts 		✖️
Fedibird Uploads
to posts 		✖️
Glitch-soc Uploads
to posts 		✖️
Hometown Uploads
to posts 		✖️
koyu.space Uploads
to posts 		✖️
Smalltown Uploads
to posts 		✖️
Pleroma Uploads
to posts 		✖️
Akkoma Uploads
to posts 		✖️
Misskey Uploads
to posts 		✖️
Firefish Uploads
to posts 		80MB ✖️
FoundKey Uploads
to posts 		✖️
Uploads
to posts 		✖️
GoToSocial
Pump.io
Identi.ca
Takahē
Epicyon
Micro.blog
Tumblr
Bonfire
Swanye
Threads
Friendica ✔️ Unlimited ✔️
diaspora* Uploads
to posts 		✖️
Acropolis Uploads
to posts 		✖️
(streams) ✔️ Unlimited ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Socialhome
Honk
Hubzilla ✔️ Unlimited ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
WriteFreely ✖️
Plume ✔️ ✖️
WordPress
Drupal
Lemmy
Kbin
Pixelfed
Flickr
PeerTube
Owncast
Goldfish
Funkwhale
CastoPod
reel2bits
Mobilizon
Gancio
BookWyrm
Inventaire

Multimedia

Name Supported formats Image gallery Playback/
Streaming 		Limits Media files modified upon upload
🖼️ 🎧 🎞️ 🎧 🎞️ 📺 Image
file size 		Audio
file size 		Video
file size 		Image
size 		Audio
duration 		Video
duration 		Lossy image
compression 		Image
resizing 		Lossy audio
compression 		Lossy video
compression 		Video
resizing
Mastodon ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
Ecko ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
Fedibird ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
Glitch-soc ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
Hometown ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
koyu.space ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
Smalltown ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
Pleroma ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
Akkoma ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
Misskey ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
Firefish ✖️ See file size limit
FoundKey ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
✖️ See file size limit
GoToSocial ✖️ See file size limit
Pump.io ✖️ See file size limit
Identi.ca ✖️ See file size limit
Takahē ✖️ See file size limit
Epicyon ✖️ See file size limit
Micro.blog ✖️ See file size limit
Tumblr ✖️
Bonfire ✖️ See file size limit
Swanye ✖️ See file size limit
Threads
Friendica ✖️ Unlimited ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
diaspora* ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
Acropolis ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
(streams) Optional ✖️ Unlimited ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Socialhome ✖️ See file size limit
Honk ✖️ See file size limit
Hubzilla Optional ✖️ Unlimited ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
WriteFreely None None ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ No uploads possible
Plume ✖️ See file size limit
WordPress ✖️ See file size limit
Drupal ✖️ See file size limit
Lemmy ✖️ See file size limit
Kbin ✖️ See file size limit
Pixelfed None None ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit None None None None ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Flickr None None ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit None None None None ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
PeerTube None None ✖️ ✖️ ✔️ ✔️ None See file size limit None ✖️
Owncast None None ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ ✔️ None See file size limit None ✖️
Goldfish ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit
Funkwhale None ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit None None ✖️ ✖️
CastoPod None ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit None None ✖️ ✖️
reel2bits None ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ See file size limit None None ✖️ ✖️
Mobilizon ✖️ See file size limit
Gancio ✖️ See file size limit
BookWyrm ✖️ See file size limit
Inventaire ✖️ See file size limit

Features

Name hover over emojis to see explanation
Default limits per post
(green=editable)
🔠 📊 🖼 ✏️ ♻️
Mastodon 500 4 4 ✔️ ✔️
Ecko 500 4 4 ✔️ ✔️
Fedibird ✔️ ✔️
Glitch-soc ✔️ ✔️
Hometown ✔️ ✔️
koyu.space ✔️ ✔️
Smalltown ✔️ ✔️
Pleroma 5000 20
Akkoma
Misskey 3000
Firefish 3000 10 16
FoundKey
1000 5 1
GoToSocial 5000
Pump.io
Identi.ca
Takahē
Epicyon
Micro.blog
Tumblr ✔️
Bonfire
Swanye
Threads 500
Friendica unlimited ✖️ unlimited; embedding ✔️ ✔️
diaspora*
Acropolis
(streams) unlimited unlimited unlimited; embedding ✔️ ✔️
Socialhome
Honk
Hubzilla unlimited unlimited unlimited; embedding ✔️ ✔️
WriteFreely ✔️ ✖️ unlimited; embeds externally hosted media ✔️ ✖️
Plume ✔️ unlimited; embedding
WordPress
Drupal
Lemmy ✖️
Kbin
Pixelfed 500 ✖️ 4 ✖️
Flickr
PeerTube ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Owncast
Goldfish
Funkwhale
CastoPod
reel2bits
Mobilizon
Gancio
BookWyrm
Inventaire

Note: "Unlimited" for post length doesn't necessarily mean unlimited, but the maximum character number may be so high that it doesn't matter. Hence, it can be adjusted by the admin. "Unlimited" for file size is within the available space on the server.

Technical

Name Inception Federating since last updated
(red=ended) 		Protocols License
(green=copyleft)
(yellow=anti-capitalist)
(red=proprietary) 		Git repository
(green=federated)
(red=evil) 		Main developer(s) Written in
Mastodon 2016 2016 ActivityPub AGPLv3 Github Eugen Rochko Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (React.js, Redux)
Ecko 2021 2021 ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHib
Fedibird ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
Glitch-soc ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
Hometown ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
koyu.space ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
Smalltown ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
Pleroma 2016 2016 ActivityPub AGPLv3 git.pleroma.social
Akkoma ActivityPub AGPLv3 akkoma.dev
Misskey 2019 2019 ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
Firefish ActivityPub AGPLv3 Codeberg ThatOneCalculator NodeJS (Typescript), Vue 3
FoundKey
2008 2008 ActivityPub, OStatus AGPLv3 notabug.org
GoToSocial ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
Pump.io Apache v2
Identi.ca 2008 2008
Takahē 2022 2022 ActivityPub BSD3 new GitHub
Epicyon ActivityPub AGPLv3 gitlab.com
Micro.blog 2017 ActivityPub proprietary -
Tumblr 2007 Announced proprietary -
Bonfire AGPLv3 GitHub
Swanye
Threads 2023 Announced - proprietary -
Friendica 2010 2010 ActivityPub, diaspora*, OStatus AGPLv3 GitHub PHP
diaspora* 2010 2010 diaspora* AGPLv3 GitHub
Acropolis diaspora* AGPLv3 https://github.com/magicstone-dev/acropolis GitHub
(streams) 2021 2021 ActivityPub, Zot Public domain + various free licenses for third-party contributions Codeberg The community; Mike Macgirvin PHP
Socialhome ActivityPub, diaspora*
Honk ActivityPub
Hubzilla 2015 2015 ActivityPub, diaspora*,

OStatus, Zot

MIT License framagit Mario Vavti PHP
WriteFreely 2018 2018 ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
Plume ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
WordPress 2003 ActivityPub, diaspora*, OStatus
Drupal 2001 ActivityPub, diaspora*
Lemmy ActivityPub
Kbin
Pixelfed 2018 2018 ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
Flickr Announced - proprietary -
PeerTube 2018 2018 ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
Owncast ActivityPub MIT License GitHub
Goldfish
Funkwhale ActivityPub AGPLv3 dev.funkwhale.audio
CastoPod
reel2bits
Mobilizon 2019 2019 ActivityPub AGPLv3 framagit
Gancio
BookWyrm ActivityPub, OStatus Anti-Capitalist Software License GitHub
Inventaire ActivityPub

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Smalltown
Pleroma
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Misskey
Firefish
FoundKey
GoToSocial
Pump.io
Identi.ca
Takahē
Epicyon
Micro.blog
Tumblr
Bonfire
Swanye
Threads
Friendica
diaspora*
Acropolis
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Socialhome
Honk
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WordPress
Drupal
Lemmy
Kbin
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Owncast
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Funkwhale
CastoPod
reel2bits
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Gancio
BookWyrm
Inventaire
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