Pleroma
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Pleroma is an open source, federated social network implementation compatible with Mastodon and GNU social.
Features
Pleroma focuses on being a light and generalized implementation of ActivityPub, in contrast to Mastodon (which focuses on microblogging).
- Profile
- Posts. Pleroma has support for
- Specifications
- ActivityPub
- Activity Streams 2.0 โ a variety of Objects, see post types above
- ...
Instances
Instances can be found on various trackers:
- https://fediverse.network/pleroma
- https://the-federation.info/pleroma
- http://distsn.org/pleroma-instances.html
Notable Forks
- Akkoma
- Akkoma fork announcement: 2022-06-24 Akkoma: A vision to refocus Pleroma - Coffee and Dreams
Akkoma is a mostly hard fork of Pleroma, with an intent to focus the massive blob of software into something with some actual identity.
- Akkoma fork announcement: 2022-06-24 Akkoma: A vision to refocus Pleroma - Coffee and Dreams
- Rebased
- Rebased fork announcement: 2022-08-19 Soapbox BE is now Rebased
Rebased is a fork of Pleroma. [...] The word โbasedโ is also slang for the opposite of cringe, and considering that Pleroma has become very cringe lately, a re-based alternative is sorely needed.
- Rebased fork announcement: 2022-08-19 Soapbox BE is now Rebased
IndieWeb Support
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- no known IndieWeb building-blocks support.
IndieWeb Requests
To Be Proposed
These are ideas/suggestions for Pleroma to support more IndieWeb building blocks. Feel free to file them in https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/issues and then move them (and their issue link) to the Requests section below.
- IndieAuth support (both sign-in with IndiAuth, and use of a Pleroma profile as an IndieAuth identity to sign-in elsewhere)
- Micropub server support
- Webmention support, sending & receiving for posts and profiles
- ...
Requests
TBD.
Internal Architecture
The Pleroma codebase has a clean separation between server and client, so an admin can install multiple frontends.
In addition to the default PleromaFE, it comes installed with a customized Mastodon frontend, called the MastoFE. The Pleroma contributors have said their goal is for Pleroma to be an unopinionated social server that can fill multiple niches, e.g. Twitter-like, Facebook-like, Instagram-like, etc.
