Glitch-soc
Community-maintained Mastodon fork with extra features
Glitch-soc is a community-maintained fork of Mastodon that adds experimental features and customization options ahead of upstream. It federates fully with the rest of the fediverse over ActivityPub.
Key features
- Extra customization options
- Experimental features
- Full fediverse federation
- Themeable interface
Strengths
- Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Written in Ruby
Is Glitch-soc secure?
OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Glitch-soc's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.
Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.
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