Comparison of Fediverse software

This article is a draft! A lot of info might still be missing and the page might change at any time.

Features

Name	Main medium	Default limits per post (green=editable)
		Characters	Poll options	Images	Image size	Video size	Audio size
Mastodon	Text	500	4	4	?	?	?
Ecko	Text	500	4	4	?	?	?
Pleroma	Text	5000	20
Misskey	Text	3000
Calckey	Text	3000	10	16	80MB	80MB	80MB
GNU social	Text	1000	5	1
GoToSocial	Text	5000
Friendica	Text
diaspora*	Text
(streams)	Text
Socialhome	Text
WriteFreely	Text	Unlimited	no polls	only embedding	only embedding	only embedding
Plume	Text	Unlimited
Pixelfed	Images	500	no polls	4	?	?
PeerTube	Videos	?	no polls	no images	no images	?
Owncast	Video streams
Mobilizon	Events
Gancio	Events
BookWyrm	Book reviews
Funkwhale	Audio
CastoPod	Audio
reel2bits	Audio
Lemmy	Links & other

Technical

Name	License (green=copyleft)	Git repository (green=federated) (red=evil)	Main developer(s)	Written in
Mastodon	AGPLv3	Github	Eugen Rochko	Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (React.js, Redux)
Ecko
Pleroma
Misskey
Calckey	AGPLv3	Codeberg	ThatOneCalculator	NodeJS (Typescript), Vue 3
GNUSocial
GoToSocial
Friendica
diaspora*
streams
SocialHome
WriteFreely
Plume
Pixelfed
PeerTube
Owncast
Mobilizon
Gancio
BookWyrm
Funkwhale
Castopod
reel2bits
Lemmy