-# Pleroma
+<img src="https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/uploads/8cec84f5a084d887339f57deeb8a293e/pleroma-banner-vector-nopad-notext.svg" width="300px" />
-## About Pleroma
+## About
-Pleroma is an OStatus-compatible social networking server written in Elixir, compatible with GNU Social and Mastodon. It is high-performance and can run on small devices like a Raspberry Pi.
+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.
-For clients it supports both the [GNU Social API with Qvitter extensions](https://twitter-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) and the [Mastodon client API](https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-the-API/API.md).
+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).
-Mobile clients that are known to work well:
+For clients it supports the [Mastodon client API](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/guidelines/) with Pleroma extensions (see the API section on <https://docs-develop.pleroma.social>).
-* Twidere
-* Tusky
-* Pawoo (Android + iOS)
-* Subway Tooter
-* Amaroq (iOS)
-* Tootdon (Android + iOS)
-
-No release has been made yet, but several servers have been online for months already. If you want to run your own server, feel free to contact us at @lain@pleroma.soykaf.com or in our dev chat at #pleroma on freenode or via matrix at https://matrix.heldscal.la/#/room/#freenode_#pleroma:matrix.org.
+- [Client Applications for Pleroma](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/clients/)
## Installation
-### Dependencies
-
-* Postgresql version 9.6 or newer
-* Elixir version 1.4 or newer
-* Build-essential tools
-
-### Configuration
-
- * Run `mix generate_config`. This will ask you a few questions about your instance and generate a configuration file in `config/generated_config.exs`. Check that and copy it to either `config/dev.secret.exs` or `config/prod.secret.exs`. You can check if your instance is configured correctly by running it with `mix phx.serve` and checking the instance info endpoint at `/api/v1/instance`. If it shows your uri, name and email correctly, you are configured correctly. If it shows something like `localhost:4000`, your configuration is probably wrong, unless you are running a local development setup.
+### OTP releases (Recommended)
+If you are running Linux (glibc or musl) on x86/arm, the recommended way to install Pleroma is by using OTP releases. OTP releases are as close as you can get to binary releases with Erlang/Elixir. The release is self-contained, and provides everything needed to boot it. The installation instructions are available [here](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/otp_en/).
- * The common and convenient way for adding HTTPS is by using Nginx as a reverse proxy. You can look at example Nginx configuration in `installation/pleroma.nginx`. If you need TLS/SSL certificates for HTTPS, you can look get some for free with letsencrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/
- On Debian you can use `certbot` package and command to manage letsencrypt certificates.
+### From Source
+If your platform is not supported, or you just want to be able to edit the source code easily, you may install Pleroma from source.
- * [Not tested with system reboot yet!] You'll also want to set up Pleroma to be run as a systemd service. Example .service file can be found in `installation/pleroma.service` you can put it in `/etc/systemd/system/`.
+- [Debian-based](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/debian_based_en/)
+- [Debian-based (jp)](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/debian_based_jp/)
+- [Alpine Linux](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/alpine_linux_en/)
+- [Arch Linux](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/arch_linux_en/)
+- [Gentoo Linux](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/gentoo_en/)
+- [NetBSD](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/netbsd_en/)
+- [OpenBSD](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/openbsd_en/)
+- [OpenBSD (fi)](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/openbsd_fi/)
+- [CentOS 7](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/centos7_en/)
-## Running
+### OS/Distro packages
+Currently Pleroma is not packaged by any OS/Distros, but if you want to package it for one, we can guide you through the process on our [community channels](#community-channels). If you want to change default options in your Pleroma package, please **discuss it with us first**.
-By default, it listens on port 4000 (TCP), so you can access it on http://localhost:4000/ (if you are on the same machine). In case of an error it will restart automatically.
+### 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>.
-### As systemd service (with provided .service file)
-Running `service pleroma start`
-Logs can be watched by using `journalctl -fu pleroma.service`
+## Documentation
+- Latest Released revision: <https://docs.pleroma.social>
+- Latest Git revision: <https://docs-develop.pleroma.social>
-### Standalone/run by other means
-Run `mix phx.server` in repository's root, it will output log into stdout/stderr
+## Community Channels
+* IRC: **#pleroma** and **#pleroma-dev** on freenode, webchat is available at <https://irc.pleroma.social>
+* Matrix: <https://matrix.to/#/#freenode_#pleroma:matrix.org> and <https://matrix.to/#/#freenode_#pleroma-dev:matrix.org>
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