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Hometown

Mastodon fork with local-only posting

Social Networks ★ 824 stars Hard setup AGPL-3.0

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.

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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

Is Hometown secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Hometown'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.

Hometown replaces

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