Draft:Comparison of Fediverse software
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Features
| Main medium | Type | Fork of | Name | Default limits per post (green=editable) | |||||
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| Characters | Poll options | Images | Image size | Video size | Audio size | ||||
| Text | Microblogging | Mastodon |  Mastodon
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500 | 4 | 4 | ? | ? | ? |
 Ecko
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500 | 4 | 4 | ? | ? | ? | |||
 Fedibird
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 Glitch-soc
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 Hometown
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 koyu.space
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 Smalltown
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| Pleroma |  Pleroma
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5000 | 20 | ||||||
 Akkoma
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| Misskey |  Misskey
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3000 | |||||||
 Calckey
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3000 | 10 | 16 | 80MB | 80MB | 80MB | |||
| GNU Social |  GNU social
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1000 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| GoToSocial |  GoToSocial
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5000 | |||||||
| Pump.io |  Pump.io
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| Identi.ca |  Identi.ca
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| Takahe |  Takahē
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| Epicyon |  Epicyon
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| Micro.blog |  Micro.blog
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| Tumblr |  Tumblr
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| Bonfire |  Bonfire
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| Swanye |  Swanye
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| Social Network | Friendica |  Friendica
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| diaspora* |  diaspora*
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| Streams | _white.svg){kind=small} (streams)
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| SocialHome |  Socialhome
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| Honk |  Honk
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| Multi-purpose | Hubzilla |  Hubzilla
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| Blogging | WriteFreely |  WriteFreely
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Unlimited | no polls | only embedding | only embedding | only embedding | ||
| Plume |  Plume
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Unlimited | |||||||
| Website (CMS) | WordPress |  WordPress
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| Drupal |  Drupal
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| Professional network | Flockingbird |  Flockingbird
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| Links & other | Link aggregation | Lemmy |  Lemmy
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| Images | Photoblogging | Pixelfed |  Pixelfed
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500 | no polls | 4 | ? | ? | |
| Flickr |  Flickr
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| Videos | Video hosting | PeerTube |  PeerTube
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? | no polls | no images | no images | ? | |
| Video streaming | Owncast |  Owncast
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| Video blogging | Goldfish |  Goldfish
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| Audio | Audio Hosting | Funkwhale |  Funkwhale
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| CastoPod |  CastoPod
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| Reel2bits |  reel2bits
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| Events | Event Planning | Mobilizon |  Mobilizon
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| Gancio |  Gancio
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| Cataloguing | Book cataloguing | BookWyrm | BookWyrm
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| Inventaire |  Inventaire
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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 |
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| Mastodon
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2016 | 2016 |  ActivityPub
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AGPLv3 | Github | Eugen Rochko | Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (React.js, Redux) | |
| Ecko
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2021 | 2021 | ActivityPub
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| Fedibird
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ActivityPub
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GitHub | ||||||
| Glitch-soc
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ActivityPub
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GitHub | ||||||
| Hometown
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ActivityPub
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GitHub | ||||||
| koyu.space
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ActivityPub
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GitHub | ||||||
| Smalltown
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ActivityPub
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GitHub | ||||||
| Pleroma
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2016 | 2016 | ActivityPub
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| Akkoma
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ActivityPub
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akkoma.dev | ||||||
| Misskey
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2019 | 2019 | ActivityPub
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GitHub | ||||
| Calckey
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ActivityPub
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AGPLv3 | Codeberg | ThatOneCalculator | NodeJS (Typescript), Vue 3 | |||
| GNU social
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2008 | 2008 | ActivityPub, Ostatus | |||||
| GoToSocial
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ActivityPub
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| Pump.io
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| Identi.ca
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2008 | 2008 | ||||||
| Takahē
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2022 | 2022 | ActivityPub
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| Epicyon
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ActivityPub
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| Micro.blog
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2017 | ActivityPub
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| Tumblr
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2007 | - | ||||||
| Bonfire
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| Swanye
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| Friendica
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2010 | 2010 | ActivityPub, diaspora*,
OStatus |
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| diaspora*
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2010 | 2010 | diaspora* | |||||
| (streams)
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ActivityPub, diaspora*,
OStatus, Zot |
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| Socialhome
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ActivityPub, diaspora* | |||||||
| Honk
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ActivityPub
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| Hubzilla
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2018 | 2018 | ActivityPub, diaspora*,
OStatus, Zot |
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| WriteFreely
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2018 | 2018 | ActivityPub
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| Plume
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ActivityPub
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| WordPress
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2003 | ActivityPub, diaspora*, OStatus | ||||||
| Drupal
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2001 | ActivityPub, diaspora* | ||||||
| Flockingbird
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| Lemmy
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ActivityPub
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| Pixelfed
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2018 | 2018 | ActivityPub
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| Flickr
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| PeerTube
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2018 | 2018 | ActivityPub
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| Owncast
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ActivityPub
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| Goldfish
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| Funkwhale
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ActivityPub
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| CastoPod
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| reel2bits
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| Mobilizon
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2019 | 2019 | ActivityPub
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| Gancio
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| BookWyrm
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ActivityPub, OStatus | Anti-Capitalist Software License | ||||||
| Inventaire
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ActivityPub
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