Comparison of Fediverse software: Difference between revisions

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Main medium	Type	Fork of	Name	Default limits per post (green=editable)
Main medium	Type	Fork of	Name	Characters	Poll options	Images	Image size	Video size	Audio size
Text	Microblogging	Mastodon	Mastodon	500	4	4	?	?	?
		Mastodon	Ecko	500	4	4	?	?	?
		Pleroma	Pleroma	5000	20
		Misskey	Misskey	3000
		Misskey	Calckey	3000	10	16	80MB	80MB	80MB
		GNU Social	GNU social	1000	5	1
		GoToSocial	GoToSocial	5000
	Social Network	Friendica	Friendica
		diaspora*	diaspora*
		Streams	(streams)
		SocialHome	Socialhome
	Blogging	WriteFreely	WriteFreely	Unlimited	no polls	only embedding	only embedding	only embedding
	Blogging	Plume	Plume	Unlimited
Links & other	Link aggregation	Lemmy	Lemmy
Images	Photoblogging	Pixelfed	Pixelfed	500	no polls	4	?	?
Videos	Video hosting	PeerTube	PeerTube	?	no polls	no images	no images	?
Videos	Video streaming	Owncast	Owncast
Audio	Audio Hosting	Funkwhale	Funkwhale
		CastoPod	CastoPod
		Reel2bits	reel2bits
Events	Event Planning	Mobilizon	Mobilizon
Events	Event Planning	Gancio	Gancio
Reviews	Book reviews	BookWyrm	BookWyrm

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

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-!Pleroma!{{Pleroma}}
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-!WriteFreely!{{WriteFreely}}
+!WriteFreely
+!{{WriteFreely}}
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 !Photoblogging
-!Pixelfed!{{Pixelfed}}
+!Pixelfed
+!{{Pixelfed}}
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 |{{no|no polls}}
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+!PeerTube
+!{{PeerTube}}
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-!Funkwhale!{{Funkwhale}}
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+!{{Funkwhale}}
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-!CastoPod!{{Castopod}}
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+!{{Castopod}}
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-!Mobilizon!{{Mobilizon}}
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-!Gancio!{{Gancio}}
+!Gancio
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