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Basic info
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
|
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 Akkoma
|
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 Misskey
|
Local, Social (Home + Local) |
Global | |||||
 Firefish
|
Local, Social (Home + Local) |
Global | |||||
 FoundKey
|
✔️ | Global | |||||
 GNU social
|
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 GoToSocial
|
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 Pump.io
|
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 Identi.ca
|
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 Takahē
|
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 Epicyon
|
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 Micro.blog
|
Single user |
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 Tumblr
|
Centralised | ||||||
 Bonfire
|
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 Swanye
|
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 Threads
|
Centralised | ||||||
 Friendica
|
✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |||
 diaspora*
|
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| Acropolis
|
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_white.svg){kind=small} (streams)
|
Optional, either local or federated, off by default | ||||||
 Socialhome
|
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 Honk
|
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 Hubzilla
|
Currently only one supported frontend |
✔️ | ✔️ | Optionally automatic |
Optional, either local or federated, off by default | ||
 WriteFreely
|
✖️ | ✔️ | |||||
 Plume
|
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 WordPress
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 Drupal
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 Lemmy
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 Kbin
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 Pixelfed
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 Flickr
|
Centralised | ||||||
 PeerTube
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 Owncast
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 Goldfish
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 Funkwhale
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 CastoPod
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 reel2bits
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 Mobilizon
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 Gancio
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| BookWyrm
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 Inventaire
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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
|
Partial | ✖️ | ||||||||||||||
| FoundKey
|
✖️ | ✖️ | ||||||||||||||
| GNU social
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| GoToSocial
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| Pump.io
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| Identi.ca
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| Takahē
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| Epicyon
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| Micro.blog
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| Tumblr
|
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| Bonfire
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| Swanye
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| Threads
|
✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ||||
| Friendica
|
✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ||||||||
| diaspora*
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| Acropolis
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| (streams)
|
✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ||||
| Socialhome
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| Honk
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||||
| Hubzilla
|
✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | Defunct | Defunct | ✖️ | Optional | Optional | 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
|
✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ||||
| GNU social
|
✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ||||
| 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
|
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| Akkoma
|
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| Misskey
|
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| Firefish
|
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| FoundKey
|
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| GNU social
|
✖️ | ||||
| GoToSocial
|
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| Pump.io
|
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| Identi.ca
|
✖️ | ||||
| Takahē
|
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| Epicyon
|
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| Micro.blog
|
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| Tumblr
|
✖️ | ||||
| Bonfire
|
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| Swanye
|
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| Threads
|
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| Friendica
|
Unlimited | ||||
| diaspora*
|
✖️ | ||||
| Acropolis
|
✖️ | ||||
| (streams)
|
Unlimited | ||||
| Socialhome
|
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| Honk
|
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| Hubzilla
|
Unlimited | ✔️ | ✖️ | 29 free-text fields 3 lists |
✔️ |
| WriteFreely
|
✖️ | ||||
| Plume
|
✖️ | ||||
| WordPress
|
✖️ | ||||
| Drupal
|
✖️ | ||||
| Lemmy
|
✖️ | ||||
| Kbin
|
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| Pixelfed
|
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| Flickr
|
✖️ | ||||
| PeerTube
|
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| Owncast
|
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| Goldfish
|
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| Funkwhale
|
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| CastoPod
|
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| reel2bits
|
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| Mobilizon
|
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| Gancio
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| BookWyrm
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| Inventaire
|
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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
|
✔️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | Misskey and forks | Misskey and forks | Misskey and forks | Misskey and forks | ✖️ | Misskey and forks | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✖️ |
| Firefish
|
✔️ | Mastodon and forks | ✖️ | Misskey and forks, Mastodon and forks |
Misskey and forks | Misskey and forks | Misskey and forks | ✖️ | Misskey and forks | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✖️ |
| FoundKey
|
✔️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | Misskey and forks | Misskey and forks | Misskey and forks | Misskey and forks | ✖️ | Misskey and forks | ✔️ | ✖️ | |
| GNU social
|
✖️ | |||||||||||
| 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
|
✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | |||
| 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 |
✖️ | ||||||
| GNU social
|
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 | |||||||||||||||
| GNU social
|
✖️ | 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) |
♻️ | |||||||||||||
| 🔠 | 📊 | 🖼 | ✏️ | |||||||||||
| Post local |
Post inbound |
Handling of longer posts | Alt-text local |
Alt-text inbound |
Handling of longer alt-text | Number (local) | Character limit | Choose multiple options (local) | ||||||
| Mastodon
|
500 | 100,000 | Reject post | 1,500 | 1,500 | Truncate | 4 | 20 | ✖️ | 4 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Ecko
|
500 | 100,000 | Reject post | 1,500 | 1,500 | Truncate | 4 | ✖️ | 4 | ✔️ | ✔️ | |||
| Fedibird
|
✔️ | ✔️ | ||||||||||||
| Glitch-soc
|
✔️ | ✔️ | ||||||||||||
| Hometown
|
✔️ | ✔️ | ||||||||||||
| koyu.space
|
✔️ | ✔️ | ||||||||||||
| Smalltown
|
✔️ | ✔️ | ||||||||||||
| Pleroma
|
5000 | 100,000 | Reject post | 20 | ||||||||||
| Akkoma
|
50,000 | Reject post | ||||||||||||
| Misskey
|
3000 | <10,000? | Reject post | 1,500 | 1,500 | Truncate? | ||||||||
| Firefish
|
3000 | <10,000? | Reject post | 1,500 | 1,500 | Truncate? | 10 | 16 | ||||||
| FoundKey
|
<10,000? | Reject post | 1,500 | 1,500 | Truncate? | |||||||||
| GNU social
|
1000 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||||
| GoToSocial
|
5000 | |||||||||||||
| Pump.io
|
||||||||||||||
| Identi.ca
|
||||||||||||||
| Takahē
|
||||||||||||||
| Epicyon
|
||||||||||||||
| Micro.blog
|
||||||||||||||
| Tumblr
|
✔️ | |||||||||||||
| Bonfire
|
||||||||||||||
| Swanye
|
||||||||||||||
| Threads
|
500 | |||||||||||||
| Friendica
|
unlimited | unlimited | unlimited; included in post | unlimited | ✖️ | unlimited; embedding | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||||||
| diaspora*
|
unlimited | unlimited | ||||||||||||
| Acropolis
|
||||||||||||||
| (streams)
|
unlimited | unlimited | unlimited; included in post | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | ✔️ | unlimited; embedding | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||||
| Socialhome
|
||||||||||||||
| Honk
|
||||||||||||||
| Hubzilla
|
unlimited | unlimited | unlimited; included in post | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | ✔️ | unlimited; embedding | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||||
| WriteFreely
|
✔️ | does not import external posts | does not import external posts | ✖️ | unlimited; embeds externally hosted media | ✔️ | ✖️ | |||||||
| Plume
|
✔️ | does not import external posts | unlimited; included in post | does not import external posts | unlimited; embedding | |||||||||
| WordPress
|
does not import external posts | unlimited; included in post | does not import external posts | |||||||||||
| Drupal
|
does not import external posts | unlimited; included in post | does not import external posts | |||||||||||
| Lemmy
|
✖️ | |||||||||||||
| Kbin
|
||||||||||||||
| Pixelfed
|
500 | ✖️ | 4 | ✖️ | ||||||||||
| Flickr
|
||||||||||||||
| PeerTube
|
✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | |||||||||||
| Owncast
|
||||||||||||||
| Goldfish
|
||||||||||||||
| Funkwhale
|
||||||||||||||
| CastoPod
|
||||||||||||||
| reel2bits
|
||||||||||||||
| Mobilizon
|
||||||||||||||
| Gancio
|
||||||||||||||
| BookWyrm
|
||||||||||||||
| Inventaire
|
||||||||||||||
Note: "Unlimited" for post length doesn't mean absolutely unlimited, but within the limits and the capacity of the underlying Web server. There is no defined or adjustable limit within the server application.
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
|
2016-03-16 | 2016-03-16 - 2019-10-04 (OStatus) 2017-09-03 (ActivityPub) |
 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
|
2019-08-20 | 2019-08-20 | ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | GitHub | Darius Kazemi | ||
| koyu.space
|
ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | GitHub | |||||
| Smalltown
|
ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | GitHub | |||||
| Pleroma
|
2016-02-22 | 2016-02-22 - 2020-03-08 (OStatus) ? (ActivityPub) |
ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | git.pleroma.social | Elixir | ||
| Akkoma
|
2022-01-29 | 2022-01-29 | ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | akkoma.dev | Elixir | ||
| Misskey
|
2014 | ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | GitHub | Syuilo | |||
| Firefish
|
2022-07-19 (Calckey) 2023-06-25 (Firefish rebrand) |
2022-07-19 | ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | Codeberg | ThatOneCalculator | NodeJS (Typescript), Vue 3 | |
| FoundKey
|
2022-06-13 | 2022-06-13 | 2023-06-05 | ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | akkoma.dev | Norm | |
| GNU social
|
2008-07-02 (Laconica, later StatusNet) 2013-06-08 (StatusNet merged into GNU social) |
2008-07-02 (OpenMicroBlogging; OStatus) 2021-07-18 (ActivityPub) |
OStatus, ActivityPub | AGPLv3 | notabug.org | |||
| GoToSocial
|
ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | GitHub | |||||
| Pump.io
|
2012-10-04 | 2012-10-04 | ActivityPump | Apache v2 | ||||
| Identi.ca
|
2008-07-02 | 2008-07-02 - 2013-07-12 (OpenMicroBlogging; OStatus) 2013-07-12 (ActivityPump) |
||||||
| 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
|
2010-07-02 | 2010-08-17 (DFRN) 2010-09-09 (OpenMicroBlogging) 2010-10-13 (OStatus) 2011-03-19 (diaspora*) 2018-11-18 (ActivityPub) |
ActivityPub, diaspora*, OStatus | AGPLv3 | GitHub | PHP | ||
| diaspora*
|
2010 | 2010 | diaspora* | AGPLv3 | GitHub | Ruby on Rails | ||
| Acropolis
|
diaspora* | AGPLv3 | GitHub | |||||
| (streams)
|
2021-10 | 2021-10 | Nomad, Zot, ActivityPub | Public domain + various free licenses for third-party contributions | Codeberg | The community; Mike Macgirvin | PHP | |
| Socialhome
|
2017-07-27 | 2017-07-27 (diaspora*) 2019-10-06 (ActivityPub) |
ActivityPub, diaspora* | Jason Robinson | ||||
| Honk
|
ActivityPub
|
|||||||
| Hubzilla
|
2012-07 (Red) 2015 (rebranded Hubzilla) |
2012-07 | Zot, ActivityPub, diaspora*,
OStatus |
MIT License | framagit | Mario Vavti | PHP | |
| WriteFreely
|
2018-11-10 | 2018-11-10 | ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | GitHub | Matt Baer | ||
| Plume
|
ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | GitHub | |||||
| WordPress
|
2003 | ActivityPub, diaspora*, OStatus | PHP | |||||
| Drupal
|
2001 | ActivityPub, diaspora* | PHP | |||||
| Lemmy
|
2019-05-06 | 2019-05-06 | ActivityPub
|
|||||
| Kbin
|
2022-10-30 | 2022-10-30 | ActivityPub
|
|||||
| Pixelfed
|
2018-11-03 | 2018-11-03 | ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | GitHub | Daniel Supernault | ||
| Flickr
|
Announced | - | proprietary | ✖️ | PHP | |||
| PeerTube
|
2018-03-20 | 2018-03-20 | ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | GitHub | |||
| Owncast
|
ActivityPub
|
MIT License | GitHub | |||||
| Goldfish
|
||||||||
| Funkwhale
|
ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | dev.funkwhale.audio | |||||
| CastoPod
|
PHP | |||||||
| reel2bits
|
||||||||
| Mobilizon
|
2019 | 2019 | ActivityPub
|
AGPLv3 | framagit | |||
| Gancio
|
||||||||
| BookWyrm
|
2020-12-31 | 2020-12-31 | ActivityPub, OStatus | Anti-Capitalist Software License | GitHub | Python | ||
| Inventaire
|
ActivityPub
|
TypeScript |
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