iceshrimp-161sh/README.md

Iceshrimp is a decentralized and federated social networking service, implementing the ActivityPub standard.
It was forked from Calckey Firefish (itself a fork of Misskey) in mid-2023, to focus on stability, performance and usability instead of new features.

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• Highlighted changes:
  • First-class Mastodon client API support
  • Significantly improved database performance
  • Options to prune cached remote media automatically
  • Proper support for split domain deployments, both local and remote
  • So much more - Read the changelog to get an overview of all changes
• Don't like the Web UI? We test our Mastodon-compatible API against the following clients:
  • Elk, Phanpy, Enafore, Masto-FE-standalone (Web)
  • Mona, Toot!, Ice Cubes, Tusker, Feditext, Mastodon (iOS)
  • Tusky, Moshidon, Megalodon, Mastodon (Android)
• Project goals:
  • No-nonsense bug fixes
  • QoL improvements
  • Better performance
  • Change of focus to actual community needs
  • Prioritization of user choice and configurability
• Project anti-goals:
  • Flashy marketing
  • Commercialization of any kind
• Documentation on installing (and updating) Iceshrimp using:
  • Binary packages
  • Docker Compose
  • Manual installation
• Want to sign up at an existing instance?
  • Check out FediDB or Fediverse Observer to get an overview of the instances that are out there.
  • Please note that we do not operate a "flagship instance", the only project-affiliated domain is iceshrimp.dev.
• Need help or want to contribute? Join the matrix room!

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