Comparison of Fediverse software

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Info

Name	Links
	Homepage	Wikipedia (en)	Fedi observer	FediDB	FediParty
Mastodon
Template:Cordigon
Ecko
Fedibird
Glitch-soc
Hometown
koyu.space
Smalltown
Pleroma
Akkoma
Misskey
Calckey
GNU social
GoToSocial
Pump.io
Identi.ca
Takahē
Epicyon
Micro.blog
Tumblr
Bonfire
Swanye
Friendica
diaspora*
(streams)
Socialhome
Honk
Hubzilla
WriteFreely
Plume
WordPress
Drupal
Flockingbird
Lemmy
Pixelfed
PeerTube
Owncast
Goldfish
Funkwhale
CastoPod
reel2bits
Mobilizon
Gancio
BookWyrm
Inventaire

Features

Main medium	Type	Fork of	Name	Default limits per post (green=editable)
				Characters	Poll options	Images	Image size	Video size	Audio size
Text	Microblogging	Mastodon	Mastodon	500	4	4	?	?	?
			Template:Cordigon
			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	last updated (red=ended)	License (green=copyleft) (yellow=anti-capitalist) (red=proprietary)	Git repository (green=federated) (red=evil)	Main developer(s)	Written in
Mastodon			AGPLv3	Github	Eugen Rochko	Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (React.js, Redux)
Template:Cordigon
Ecko
Fedibird
Glitch-soc
Hometown
koyu.space
Smalltown
Pleroma
Akkoma
Misskey
Calckey			AGPLv3	Codeberg	ThatOneCalculator	NodeJS (Typescript), Vue 3
GNU social
GoToSocial
Pump.io
Identi.ca
Takahē
Epicyon
Micro.blog
Tumblr
Bonfire
Swanye
Friendica
diaspora*
(streams)
Socialhome
Honk
Hubzilla
WriteFreely
Plume
WordPress
Drupal
Flockingbird
Lemmy
Pixelfed
PeerTube
Owncast
Goldfish
Funkwhale
CastoPod
reel2bits
Mobilizon
Gancio
BookWyrm			Anti-Capitalist Software License
Inventaire

JoinFediverseWiki Info

Name	Logo svg		Hex Code	Links
		bw		Table Template	extended Page
Mastodon	File:Mastodon logo.svg			Template:Mastodon	Mastodon
Template:Cordigon	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Ecko	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Fedibird	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Glitch-soc	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Hometown	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
koyu.space	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Smalltown	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Pleroma	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Akkoma	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Misskey	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Calckey	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
GNU social	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
GoToSocial	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Pump.io	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Identi.ca	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Takahē	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Epicyon	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Micro.blog	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Tumblr	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Bonfire	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Swanye	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Friendica	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
diaspora*	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
(streams)	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Socialhome	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Honk	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Hubzilla	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
WriteFreely	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Plume	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
WordPress	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Drupal	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Flockingbird	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Lemmy	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Pixelfed	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
PeerTube	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Owncast	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Goldfish	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Funkwhale	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
CastoPod	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
reel2bits	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Mobilizon	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Gancio	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
BookWyrm	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]
Inventaire	File:Logo.svg	File:.svg		[[Template:]]	[[]]

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Name
Mastodon
Template:Cordigon
Ecko
Fedibird
Glitch-soc
Hometown
koyu.space
Smalltown
Pleroma
Akkoma
Misskey
Calckey
GNU social
GoToSocial
Pump.io
Identi.ca
Takahē
Epicyon
Micro.blog
Tumblr
Bonfire
Swanye
Friendica
diaspora*
(streams)
Socialhome
Honk
Hubzilla
WriteFreely
Plume
WordPress
Drupal
Flockingbird
Lemmy
Pixelfed
PeerTube
Owncast
Goldfish
Funkwhale
CastoPod
reel2bits
Mobilizon
Gancio
BookWyrm
Inventaire