Pleroma

What is Pleroma?

Pleroma is a federated social networking platform, compatible with GNU social, Mastodon and other ActivityPub and OStatus implementations. It is free software licensed under the AGPLv3. It actually consists of two components: a backend, named simply Pleroma, and a user-facing frontend, named Pleroma-FE.

For a user-friendly introduction, have a look here: What is Pleroma?

Pleroma-FE

Pleroma-FE is the single column frontend bundled with Pleroma. It is highly customizable, with an impressive set of features.

• Per-user color themes
• Smart collapsible conversations
• Independently scrolling notification sidebar
• NSFW attachment hiding
• Post filtering
• Supports both Pleroma and stock GNU social backends
• Can be run in parallel to another frontend

Advantages of the Pleroma backend

• High-performance
• Light memory usage
• Runs on a Raspberry Pi
• Support for ActivityPub and OStatus

Technical details

There is now a dedicated Pleroma GitLab where all development takes place.

• Frontend source code
• Backend source code

Some of the technologies used in Pleroma include Elixir, Vue.js, and the Phoenix framework.

Other helpful resources

• List of Pleroma instances
• #pleroma channel on the freenode IRC network
• Heldscalla Matrix chat server