-# Pleroma
+<img src="https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/uploads/8cec84f5a084d887339f57deeb8a293e/pleroma-banner-vector-nopad-notext.svg" width="300px" />
+
+## About
-## About Pleroma
Pleroma is a microblogging server software that can federate (= exchange messages with) other servers that support ActivityPub. What that means is that you can host a server for yourself or your friends and stay in control of your online identity, but still exchange messages with people on larger servers. Pleroma will federate with all servers that implement ActivityPub, like Friendica, GNU Social, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Misskey, Peertube, and Pixelfed.
Pleroma is written in Elixir and uses PostgresSQL for data storage. It's efficient enough to be ran on low-power devices like Raspberry Pi (though we wouldn't recommend storing the database on the internal SD card ;) but can scale well when ran on more powerful hardware (albeit only single-node for now).
### Docker
While we don’t provide docker files, other people have written very good ones. Take a look at <https://github.com/angristan/docker-pleroma> or <https://glitch.sh/sn0w/pleroma-docker>.
+### Compilation Troubleshooting
+If you ever encounter compilation issues during the updating of Pleroma, you can try these commands and see if they fix things:
+
+- `mix deps.clean --all`
+- `mix local.rebar`
+- `mix local.hex`
+- `rm -r _build`
+
+If you are not developing Pleroma, it is better to use the OTP release, which comes with everything precompiled.
+
## Documentation
- Latest Released revision: <https://docs.pleroma.social>
- Latest Git revision: <https://docs-develop.pleroma.social>