Draft:Comparison of Fediverse software
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Info
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 | 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 | 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 |
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Mastodon | 2016 | ActivityPub | AGPLv3 | Github | Eugen Rochko | Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (React.js, Redux) | ||
Ecko | ActivityPub | |||||||
Fedibird | ActivityPub | |||||||
Glitch-soc | ActivityPub | |||||||
Hometown | ActivityPub | |||||||
koyu.space | ActivityPub | |||||||
Smalltown | ActivityPub | |||||||
Pleroma | ActivityPub | |||||||
Akkoma | ActivityPub | |||||||
Misskey | ActivityPub | |||||||
Calckey | AGPLv3 | Codeberg | ThatOneCalculator | NodeJS (Typescript), Vue 3 | ||||
GNU social | 2010 | |||||||
GoToSocial | ||||||||
Pump.io | ||||||||
Identi.ca | ||||||||
Takahē | ||||||||
Epicyon | ||||||||
Micro.blog | 2017 | |||||||
Tumblr | 2007 | |||||||
Bonfire | ||||||||
Swanye | ||||||||
Friendica | ||||||||
diaspora* | ||||||||
(streams) | ||||||||
Socialhome | ||||||||
Honk | ||||||||
Hubzilla | ||||||||
WriteFreely | ||||||||
Plume | ||||||||
WordPress | 2003 | |||||||
Drupal | 2001 | |||||||
Flockingbird | ||||||||
Lemmy | ||||||||
Pixelfed | 2018 | |||||||
PeerTube | 2018 | |||||||
Owncast | ||||||||
Goldfish | ||||||||
Funkwhale | ||||||||
CastoPod | ||||||||
reel2bits | ||||||||
Mobilizon | 2019 | |||||||
Gancio | ||||||||
BookWyrm | style="background:#FF9;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-maybe" | Anti-Capitalist Software License | |||||||
Inventaire |