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
FoundKey
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
FoundKey
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
FoundKey
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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Name
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