Pleroma
Lightweight fediverse microblogging server
Pleroma is a lightweight, free, open-source social networking server compatible with the fediverse. It implements ActivityPub and the Mastodon API while using fewer resources than Mastodon.
Key features
- ActivityPub federation
- Mastodon API compatible
- Low resource footprint
- Multiple frontends supported
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Runs on small servers
- Compatible with Mastodon apps
Trade-offs
- Smaller community
- Less polished admin tools
Pleroma replaces
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33 head-to-head comparisons.
- Pleroma vs Mastodon
- Pleroma vs Discourse
- Pleroma vs Invidious
- Pleroma vs NodeBB
- Pleroma vs Lemmy
- Pleroma vs diaspora*
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- Pleroma vs Takahe
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