Draft:Comparison of Fediverse software

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Name Links
Homepage Wikipedia (en) Fedi observer FediDB FediParty
  Mastodon joinmastodon.org mastodon
  Ecko magicstone.dev ecko
  Fedibird fedibird
  Glitch-soc
  Hometown hometown
  koyu.space
  Smalltown smalltown
  Pleroma pleroma.social pleroma
  Akkoma akkoma.social akkoma
  Misskey misskey-hub.net misskey
  Calckey calckey
gnusocial
  GoToSocial gotosocial
  Pump.io
  Identi.ca
  Takahē takahe
  Epicyon epicyon
  Micro.blog
  Tumblr
  Bonfire
  Swanye
  Friendica friendica
  diaspora* diaspora
  (streams)
  Socialhome socialhome
  Honk honk
  Hubzilla hubzilla
  WriteFreely writefreely
  Plume plume
  WordPress
  Drupal
  Flockingbird flockingbird.social
  Lemmy lemmy
  Pixelfed pixelfed
  Flickr
  PeerTube peertube
  Owncast
  Goldfish
  Funkwhale
  CastoPod
  reel2bits
  Mobilizon
  Gancio
  BookWyrm
  Inventaire

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   Mastodon 500 4 4 ? ? ?
  Ecko 500 4 4 ? ? ?
  Fedibird
  Glitch-soc
  Hometown
  koyu.space
  Smalltown
Pleroma   Pleroma 5000 20
  Akkoma
Misskey   Misskey 3000
  Calckey 3000 10 16 80MB 80MB 80MB
GNU Social 1000 5 1
GoToSocial   GoToSocial 5000
Pump.io   Pump.io
Identi.ca   Identi.ca
Takahe   Takahē
Epicyon   Epicyon
Micro.blog   Micro.blog
Tumblr   Tumblr
Bonfire   Bonfire
Swanye   Swanye
Social Network Friendica   Friendica
diaspora*   diaspora*
Streams   (streams)
SocialHome   Socialhome
Honk   Honk
Multi-purpose Hubzilla   Hubzilla
Blogging WriteFreely   WriteFreely Unlimited no polls only embedding only embedding only embedding
Plume   Plume Unlimited
Website (CMS) WordPress   WordPress
Drupal   Drupal
Professional network Flockingbird   Flockingbird
Links & other Link aggregation Lemmy   Lemmy
Images Photoblogging Pixelfed   Pixelfed 500 no polls 4 ? ?
Flickr   Flickr
Videos Video hosting PeerTube   PeerTube ? no polls no images no images ?
Video streaming Owncast   Owncast
Video blogging Goldfish   Goldfish
Audio Audio Hosting Funkwhale   Funkwhale
CastoPod   CastoPod
Reel2bits   reel2bits
Events Event Planning Mobilizon   Mobilizon
Gancio   Gancio
Cataloguing Book cataloguing BookWyrm   BookWyrm
Inventaire   Inventaire

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 2016   ActivityPub AGPLv3 Github Eugen Rochko Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (React.js, Redux)
  Ecko 2021 2021   ActivityPub
  Fedibird   ActivityPub GitHub
  Glitch-soc   ActivityPub GitHub
  Hometown   ActivityPub GitHub
  koyu.space   ActivityPub GitHub
  Smalltown   ActivityPub GitHub
  Pleroma 2016 2016   ActivityPub
  Akkoma   ActivityPub akkoma.dev
  Misskey 2019 2019   ActivityPub GitHub
  Calckey   ActivityPub AGPLv3 Codeberg ThatOneCalculator NodeJS (Typescript), Vue 3
2008 2008
  GoToSocial   ActivityPub
  Pump.io
  Identi.ca 2008 2008
  Takahē 2022 2022   ActivityPub
  Epicyon
  Micro.blog 2017
  Tumblr 2007 -
  Bonfire
  Swanye
  Friendica 2010 2010
  diaspora* 2010 2010
  (streams)
  Socialhome
  Honk
  Hubzilla 2018 2018
  WriteFreely 2018 2018   ActivityPub
  Plume   ActivityPub
  WordPress 2003
  Drupal 2001
  Flockingbird
  Lemmy   ActivityPub
  Pixelfed 2018 2018   ActivityPub
  Flickr
  PeerTube 2018 2018   ActivityPub
  Owncast
  Goldfish
  Funkwhale   ActivityPub
  CastoPod
  reel2bits
  Mobilizon 2019 2019   ActivityPub
  Gancio
  BookWyrm   ActivityPub Anti-Capitalist Software License
  Inventaire

JoinFediverseWiki Info

Name Logo svg Main color

Hex code

Links
bw Table Template Weblinks extended Page
  Mastodon     6364FF Template:Mastodon Fediverse weblinks#Mastodon Mastodon
  Ecko     Template:Ecko Fediverse weblinks#Ecko Ecko
  Fedibird File:Fedibird logo.svg   Template:Fedibird Fedibird
  Glitch-soc File:Glitch-soc logo.svg   82DCB9 Template:Glitch-soc Glitch-soc
  Hometown File:Hometown logo.svg   Template:Hometown Hometown
  koyu.space     Template:Koyu.space Koyu.space
  Smalltown File:Smalltown logo.svg File:Smalltown.svg Template:Smalltown Smalltown
  Pleroma     FBA457 Template:Pleroma Pleroma
  Akkoma     593196 Template:Akkoma Akkoma
  Misskey     Template:Misskey Misskey
  Calckey     3D87A0 Template:Calckey Calckey
Template:GNU Social     A22430 Template:GNU Social GNU Social
  GoToSocial     Template:GoToSocial GoToSocial
  Pump.io File:Pump.io logo.svg   Template:Pump.io Pump.io
  Identi.ca File:Identi.ca logo.svg   Template:Identi.ca Identi.ca
  Takahē File:Takahē logo.svg   Template:Takahē Takahē
  Epicyon File:Epicyon logo.svg   Template:Epicyon Epicyon
  Micro.blog File:Micro.blog logo.svg   FF8800 Template:Micro.blog Micro.blog
  Tumblr     Template:Tumblr Tumblr
  Bonfire     Template:Bonfire Bonfire
  Swanye     Template:Swanye Swanye
  Friendica     FEBF19 Template:Friendica Friendica
  diaspora* File:Diaspora* logo.svg   Template:diaspora* diaspora*
  (streams)     Template:streams streams
  Socialhome File:SocialHome logo.svg   Template:SocialHome SocialHome
  Honk File:Honk logo.svg   330066 Template:Honk Honk
  Hubzilla     43488a Template:Hubzilla Hubzilla
  WriteFreely     Template:WriteFreely WriteFreely
  Plume File:Plume logo.svg   Template:Plume Plume
  WordPress     Template:WordPress WordPress
  Drupal File:Drupal logo.svg   009CDE Template:Drupal Drupal
  Flockingbird     Template:Flockingbird Flockingbird
  Lemmy     Template:Lemmy Lemmy
  Pixelfed     FF3090 Template:Pixelfed Pixelfed
  Flickr     Template:Flickr Flickr
  PeerTube     F67D00 Template:PeerTube PeerTube
  Owncast     Template:Owncast Owncast
  Goldfish     Template:Goldfish Goldfish
  Funkwhale     00AFE9 Template:Funkwhale Funkwhale
  CastoPod File:CastoPod logo.svg   009486 Template:CastoPod CastoPod
  reel2bits     Template:reel2bits reel2bits
  Mobilizon     FEA72B Template:Mobilizon Mobilizon
  Gancio File:Gancio logo.svg   FF2600 Template:Gancio Gancio
  BookWyrm   File:BookWyrm.svg Template:BookWyrm BookWyrm
  Inventaire File:Inventaire logo.svg   Template:Inventaire Inventaire

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Name
  Mastodon
  Ecko
  Fedibird
  Glitch-soc
  Hometown
  koyu.space
  Smalltown
  Pleroma
  Akkoma
  Misskey
  Calckey
  GoToSocial
  Pump.io
  Identi.ca
  Takahē
  Epicyon
  Micro.blog
  Tumblr
  Bonfire
  Swanye
  Friendica
  diaspora*
  (streams)
  Socialhome
  Honk
  Hubzilla
  WriteFreely
  Plume
  WordPress
  Drupal
  Flockingbird
  Lemmy
  Pixelfed
  Flickr
  PeerTube
  Owncast
  Goldfish
  Funkwhale
  CastoPod
  reel2bits
  Mobilizon
  Gancio
  BookWyrm
  Inventaire