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 | ? | ? | ? |
| Template:Cordigon | |||||||||
 Ecko
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500 | 4 | 4 | ? | ? | ? | |||
 Fedibird
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 Glitch-soc
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| Pleroma |  Pleroma
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5000 | 20 | ||||||
| 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 | |||||||
| 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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| Blogging | WriteFreely |  WriteFreely
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Unlimited | no polls | only embedding | only embedding | only embedding | ||
| Plume |  Plume
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Unlimited | |||||||
| Links & other | Link aggregation | Lemmy |  Lemmy
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| Images | Photoblogging | Pixelfed |  Pixelfed
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500 | no polls | 4 | ? | ? | |
| Videos | Video hosting | PeerTube |  PeerTube
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? | no polls | no images | no images | ? | |
| Video streaming | Owncast |  Owncast
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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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| Reviews | Book reviews | BookWyrm |  BookWyrm
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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 |