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
  • note
  • article
  • page
  • photo
  • video
• Specifications
  • ActivityPub
  • Activity Streams 2.0 — 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

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.

See Also

• federation
• Development of Pleroma appears to have forked into two forks: Rebased and Akkoma: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pleroma/comments/yu8xof/pleromas_rebased_fork_vs_akkoma_fork/
• Rebased fork announcement: 2022-08-19 Soapbox BE is now Rebased

  Rebased is a fork of Pleroma. [...] The word “based” is also slang for the opposite of cringe, and considering that Pleroma has become very cringe lately, a re-based alternative is sorely needed.

• Akkoma announcement: https://coffee-and-dreams.uk/development/2022/06/24/akkoma.html
• 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.