Akkoma
Akkoma is a specialised and opinionated fork of Pleroma. It is faster-paced in development and aligns itself more closely with Misskey than Pleroma mainline.
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 Akkoma
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| Website | akkoma.social |
| Official instance | akkoma.net |
| List of instances | fediverse.observer |
Akkoma differentiates itself by focusing on user experience and expression as a first priority.
Also, unlike Pleroma which has assumed instances are small or single-user, Akkoma instead is treating each instance as a community in its own right.
To this end Akkoma has functionality that allows several self-governing communities (instances) to band together in a larger community of instances, where they can share a specific "bubble" timeline.
What does Akkoma feel like?
- Akkoma is a lot like Twitter and Mastodon.
- Akkoma will federate with all servers that implement ActivityPub, like Pleroma, Friendica, GNU Social, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Misskey, Calckey, Peertube and Pixelfed.
- Akkoma can be extensively themed (or "styled") by each user, and they can apply themes to their profiles and for their experience which differ from their instances default public theme/style
- You can use different front-ends.
- The default is heavily modified version of Pleroma-FE
- One of them is Mastodons Advanced View (in collaboration with Glitch-soc)
- You can install your own front-ends
- Dynamic loading of content - this means that if replies are made as you are reading a conversation/thread, the new replies slot right in before your eyes without you having to reload the view or use a "back" button and then re-visit the conversation/thread to force a reload.
- Your content streams can have a tree-view for helping in visualizing conversations, threads and "who" replied to "whom" - this creates better context
- You can "re-focus" long threads/conversations on a specific post to see that particular thread of a conversation
- You can preview the message a post is a reply to, which creates better context
- You can preview replies to a post, which creates better context
- You can write short messages, add pictures, videos, audio, image/video/audio descriptions, content warnings and polls (with unlimited poll options).
- You can edit your posts
- You can quote your friends and those you follow
- You can @ other people on the Fediverse in your posts and send private messages.
- You can use free-text search with Elasticsearch, Meilisearch or directly in the database of your instance
- You can use hashtags and find posts based on hashtags.
- Messages can be written in multiple formats, as chosen by the user:
- Plain text
- Markdown
- HTML
- BBCode
- Markdown-variant (MFM), with added support for special effects like bouncing text and sparkles.
- Messages can be translated with DeepL, ArgosTranslate or LibreTranslate (if the admin has configured translations)
What are some advantages over Twitter?
| Threads | Mastodon | Ecko | Pleroma | Akkoma | GNU Social | GoToSocial | Firefish | Misskey | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| character limit | 280 | 500 | 500 | admin decision | 3000 | |||||
| feed | algorithmic | algorithmic | chronological | |||||||
| reach | far | far | familiar | |||||||
What are some advantages over Pleroma?
Akkoma adds features such as a Bubble timeline, local-only posting and compatibility with the Mastodon client API (and thus may be used with Mastodon mobile apps).
What are some limitations?
Further Reading
How do I get an account?
Getting started with your Fediverse account
Apps
Best practices
Akkoma - the advanced page on Akkoma