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Comparison of Fediverse software

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Info

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
  Calckey calckey calckey
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
  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
  Flockingbird flockingbird.social
  Lemmy join-lemmy.org lemmy
  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
  Calckey 3000 10 16 80MB
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
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
Professional network Flockingbird   Flockingbird
Links & other Link 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
  Calckey   ActivityPub AGPLv3 Codeberg ThatOneCalculator NodeJS (Typescript), Vue 3
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
  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*
  Flockingbird
  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

JoinFediverseWiki Info

Name Logo svg Main color

Hex code

Links
black Table Template Weblinks extended Page
  Mastodon     6364FF Template:Mastodon Fediverse weblinks#Mastodon Mastodon
  Ecko     99FF38 Template:Ecko Fediverse weblinks#Ecko Ecko
  Fedibird File:Fedibird logo.svg   Template:Fedibird Fedibird
  Glitch-soc File:Glitch-soc logo.svg   82DCB9 Template:Glitch-soc Glitch-soc
  Hometown File:Hometown logo.svg   Template:Hometown Hometown
  koyu.space     FE51D9 Template:Koyu.space Koyu.space
  Smalltown File:Smalltown logo.svg File:Smalltown.svg Template:Smalltown Smalltown
  Pleroma     FBA457 Template:Pleroma Pleroma
  Akkoma     593196 Template:Akkoma Akkoma
  Misskey     8BCA43 Template:Misskey Misskey
  Calckey     3D87A0 Template:Calckey Calckey
    A22430 Template:GNU social GNU social
  GoToSocial     DF8958 Template:GoToSocial GoToSocial
  Pump.io File:Pump.io logo.svg   Template:Pump.io Pump.io
  Identi.ca File:Identi.ca logo.svg   Template:Identi.ca Identi.ca
  Takahē File:Takahē logo.svg   Template:Takahē Takahē
  Epicyon File:Epicyon logo.svg   Template:Epicyon Epicyon
  Micro.blog File:Micro.blog logo.svg   FF8800 Template:Micro.blog Micro.blog
  Tumblr     Template:Tumblr Tumblr
  Bonfire     Template:Bonfire Bonfire
  Swanye     443D5A Template:Swanye Swanye
  Friendica     FEBF19 Template:Friendica Friendica
  diaspora* File:Diaspora* logo.svg   Template:diaspora* diaspora*
  Acropolis File:Acropolis logo.svg File:Acropolis.svg Template:Acropolis
  (streams)     Template:streams streams
  Socialhome File:SocialHome logo.svg   Template:SocialHome SocialHome
  Honk File:Honk logo.svg   330066 Template:Honk Honk
  Hubzilla     43488a Template:Hubzilla Hubzilla
  WriteFreely     Template:WriteFreely Fediverse_weblinks#WriteFreely WriteFreely
  Plume File:Plume logo.svg   Template:Plume Plume
  WordPress     Template:WordPress WordPress
  Drupal File:Drupal logo.svg   009CDE Template:Drupal Drupal
  Flockingbird     F03432 Template:Flockingbird Flockingbird
  Lemmy     Template:Lemmy Fediverse_weblinks#Lemmy Lemmy
  Kbin
  Pixelfed     FF3090 Template:Pixelfed Fediverse_weblinks#Pixelfed Pixelfed
  Flickr     Template:Flickr Flickr
  PeerTube     F67D00 Template:PeerTube Fediverse_weblinks#PeerTube PeerTube
  Owncast     Template:Owncast Owncast
  Goldfish     Template:Goldfish Goldfish
  Funkwhale     00AFE9 Template:Funkwhale Fediverse_weblinks#Funkwhale Funkwhale
  CastoPod File:CastoPod logo.svg   009486 Template:CastoPod CastoPod
  reel2bits     Template:reel2bits reel2bits
  Mobilizon     FEA72B Template:Mobilizon Mobilizon
  Gancio File:Gancio logo.svg   FF2600 Template:Gancio Gancio
  BookWyrm   File:BookWyrm.svg Template:BookWyrm BookWyrm
  Inventaire File:Inventaire logo.svg   Template:Inventaire Inventaire

more

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