Draft:Comparison of Fediverse software
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Features
| Main medium | Type | Fork of | Name | Default limits per post (green=editable) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characters | Poll options | Images | Image size | Video size | Audio size | ||||
| Text | Microblogging | Mastodon!style="background:#6364FF;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-Mastodon"| Mastodon
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500 | 4 | 4 | ? | ? | ? | |
 Ecko
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500 | 4 | 4 | ? | ? | ? | |||
 Pleroma
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5000 | 20 | |||||||
| Misskey |  Misskey
|
3000 | |||||||
 Calckey
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3000 | 10 | 16 | 80MB | 80MB | 80MB | |||
 GNU social
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1000 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
 GoToSocial
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5000 | ||||||||
| Social Network |  Friendica
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 diaspora*
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 Socialhome
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| Blog |  WriteFreely
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Unlimited | no polls | only embedding | only embedding | only embedding | |||
 Plume
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Unlimited | ||||||||
| Links & other | Link aggregation |  Lemmy
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| Images | Photoblog |  Pixelfed
|
500 | no polls | 4 | ? | ? | ||
| Videos | Video hosting |  PeerTube
|
? | no polls | no images | no images | ? | ||
| Video streaming |  Owncast
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| Events | Event planning |  Mobilizon
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 Gancio
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| Book reviews | Book reviews |  BookWyrm
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| Audio | Audio hosting |  Funkwhale
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 CastoPod
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 reel2bits
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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 |