Pleroma

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What is Pleroma?

Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub and OStatus implementations.

The project consists of several components: Pleroma is the server implementation, and comes bundled with PleromaFE, the default frontend. Other useful utilities are also provided, such as an ActivityPub relay.

Source: https://pleroma.social/

Why use this over Mastodon?

Pleroma is more lightweight, can be implemented easily on a server and it's very customizable allowing many themes to be made.

Where do I sign up?

Just like GNU_Social and Mastodon, Pleroma is part of the fediverse, meaning that anyone can host their own instance There are many instances up for public registration such as:

• fuwafuwa

• bsd moe

• free software extremist