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Pleroma
What is Pleroma?
Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub and OStatus implementations.
The project consists of several components: Pleroma is the server implementation, and comes bundled with PleromaFE, the default frontend. Other useful utilities are also provided, such as an ActivityPub relay.
Source: https://pleroma.social/
Why use this over Mastodon?
Pleroma is more lightweight, can be implemented easily on a server and it's very customizable allowing many themes to be made.
Where do I sign up?
Just like GNU_Social and Mastodon, Pleroma is part of the fediverse, meaning that anyone can host their own instance There are many instances up for public registration such as: