Comparison of Fediverse software

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Features

Name Main medium Default limits per post (green=editable)
Characters Poll options Images Image size Video size Audio size
  Mastodon Text 500 4 4 ? ? ?
  Ecko Text 500 4 4 ? ? ?
  Pleroma Text 5000 20
  Misskey Text 3000
  Calckey Text 3000 10 16 80MB 80MB 80MB
Text 1000 5 1
  GoToSocial Text 5000
  Friendica Text
  diaspora* Text
  (streams) Text
  Socialhome Text
  WriteFreely Text Unlimited no polls Unlimited
(hosted elsewhere)
Unlimited
(hosted elsewhere)
Unlimited
(hosted elsewhere)
  Plume Text Unlimited
  Pixelfed Images 500 no polls 4 ? ?
  PeerTube Videos ? no polls no images no images ?
  Owncast Video streams
  Mobilizon Events
  Gancio Events
  BookWyrm Book reviews
  Funkwhale Audio
  CastoPod Audio
  reel2bits Audio
  Lemmy Links & other

Technical

Name License
(green=copyleft)
Git repository
(green=federated)
(red=evil)
Main developer(s) Written in
Mastodon AGPLv3 Github Eugen Rochko Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (React.js, Redux)
Ecko
Pleroma
Misskey
Calckey AGPLv3 Codeberg ThatOneCalculator NodeJS (Typescript), Vue 3
GNUSocial
GoToSocial
Friendica
diaspora*
streams
SocialHome
WriteFreely
Plume
Pixelfed
PeerTube
Owncast
Mobilizon
Gancio
BookWyrm
Funkwhale
Castopod
reel2bits
Lemmy