Hometown
Mastodon fork with local-only posting
Hometown is a friendly fork of Mastodon that adds local-only posting, full-text content support, and other community-oriented features. It is aimed at small, close-knit fediverse instances.
Key features
- Local-only posts
- Full-text content
- Mastodon compatibility
- Small-community focus
Strengths
- Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Written in Ruby
Hometown replaces
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