Draft:Comparison of Fediverse software

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Name Links
Homepage Wikipedia (en) Fedi observer FediDB FediParty
  Mastodon joinmastodon.org Mastodon (social network) mastodon mastodon mastodon
  Ecko magicstone.dev ecko ecko
  Fedibird fedibird fedibird
  Glitch-soc glitch-soc.github.io/docs
  Hometown hometown hometown
  koyu.space
  Smalltown
  Pleroma pleroma.social pleroma pleroma pleroma
  Akkoma akkoma.social akkoma akkoma
  Misskey misskey-hub.net misskey misskey misskey
  Firefish joinfirefish.org firefish firefish firefish
gnusocial.rocks GNU social gnusocial gnusocial gnusocial
  GoToSocial gotosocial.org gotosocial gotosocial
  Pump.io pump.io Pump.io
  Identi.ca Identi.ca
  Takahē jointakahe.org takahē
  Epicyon epicyon.net epicyon
  Micro.blog micro.blog Micro.blog
  Tumblr tumblr.com Tumblr
  Bonfire bonfirenetworks.org
  Swanye
  Threads threads.net Threads (social network)
  Friendica friendi.ca Friendica friendica friendica
  diaspora* diasporafoundation.org Diaspora (software) diaspora
  Acropolis
  (streams)
  Socialhome socialhome
  Honk tedunangst.com/honk honk
  Hubzilla hubzilla.org hubzilla
  WriteFreely writefreely.org writefreely
  Plume joinplu.me plume
  WordPress wordpress.org
  Drupal drupal.org Drupal
  Lemmy join-lemmy.org lemmy
  Kbin kbin.pub kbin kbin
  Pixelfed pixelfed.org Pixelfed pixelfed pixelfed pixelfed
  Flickr flickr.com Flickr
  PeerTube joinpeertube.org PeerTube peertube peertube peertube
  Owncast owncast.online
  Goldfish
  Funkwhale funkwhale.audio funkwhale
  CastoPod castopod.org
  reel2bits reel2bits.org
  Mobilizon mobilizon.org Mobilizon mobilizon
  Gancio gancio.org gancio
  BookWyrm joinbookwyrm.com bookwyrm
  Inventaire inventaire.io

Features

Main medium Type Fork of Name hover over emojis to see explanation
Default limits per post
(green=editable)
🔠 📊 🖼 📂 ✏️ 🚲 👥 ♻️
Text Microblogging Mastodon   Mastodon 500 4 4 40mb ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
  Ecko 500 4 4 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
  Fedibird ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
  Glitch-soc ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
  Hometown ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
  koyu.space ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
  Smalltown ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Pleroma   Pleroma 5000 20
  Akkoma
Misskey   Misskey 3000
  Firefish 3000 10 16 80MB
GNU social 1000 5 1
GoToSocial   GoToSocial 5000
Pump.io   Pump.io
Identi.ca   Identi.ca
Takahē   Takahē
Epicyon   Epicyon
Micro.blog   Micro.blog
Tumblr   Tumblr ✔️
Bonfire   Bonfire
Swanye   Swanye
Threads   Threads 500
Social Network Friendica   Friendica ✔️
diaspora*   diaspora*
  Acropolis
Streams   (streams)
SocialHome   Socialhome
Honk   Honk
Multi-purpose Hubzilla   Hubzilla
Blogging WriteFreely   WriteFreely ✔️ ✖️ embedding ✔️ ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Plume   Plume ✔️
Website (CMS) WordPress   WordPress
Drupal   Drupal
Links & other Content aggregation Lemmy   Lemmy ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Kbin   Kbin
Images Photoblogging Pixelfed   Pixelfed 500 ✖️ 4 ? ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
Flickr   Flickr
Videos Video hosting PeerTube   PeerTube ✖️ ✖️ ✖️
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 AGPLv3 GitHib
  Fedibird   ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
  Glitch-soc   ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
  Hometown   ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
  koyu.space   ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
  Smalltown   ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
  Pleroma 2016 2016   ActivityPub AGPLv3 git.pleroma.social
  Akkoma   ActivityPub AGPLv3 akkoma.dev
  Misskey 2019 2019   ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
  Firefish   ActivityPub AGPLv3 Codeberg ThatOneCalculator NodeJS (Typescript), Vue 3
2008 2008 ActivityPub, Ostatus AGPLv3 notabug.org
  GoToSocial   ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
  Pump.io Apache v2
  Identi.ca 2008 2008
  Takahē 2022 2022   ActivityPub BSD3 new GitHub
  Epicyon   ActivityPub AGPLv3 gitlab.com
  Micro.blog 2017   ActivityPub proprietary -
  Tumblr 2007 - proprietary -
  Bonfire AGPLv3 GitHub
  Swanye
  Threads 2023 - - proprietary -
  Friendica 2010 2010 ActivityPub, diaspora*,

OStatus

AGPLv3 GitHub
  diaspora* 2010 2010 diaspora* AGPLv3 GitHub
  Acropolis diaspora* AGPLv3 https://github.com/magicstone-dev/acropolis GitHub
  (streams) ActivityPub, diaspora*,

OStatus, Zot

  Socialhome ActivityPub, diaspora*
  Honk   ActivityPub
  Hubzilla 2018 2018 ActivityPub, diaspora*,

OStatus, Zot

MIT License framagit
  WriteFreely 2018 2018   ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
  Plume   ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
  WordPress 2003 ActivityPub, diaspora*, OStatus
  Drupal 2001 ActivityPub, diaspora*
  Lemmy   ActivityPub
  Kbin
  Pixelfed 2018 2018   ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
  Flickr - proprietary -
  PeerTube 2018 2018   ActivityPub AGPLv3 GitHub
  Owncast   ActivityPub MIT License GitHub
  Goldfish
  Funkwhale   ActivityPub AGPLv3 dev.funkwhale.audio
  CastoPod
  reel2bits
  Mobilizon 2019 2019   ActivityPub AGPLv3 framagit
  Gancio
  BookWyrm ActivityPub, OStatus Anti-Capitalist Software License GitHub
  Inventaire   ActivityPub

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