-# 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)
-* Tootle (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
-### Docker
-
-While we don't provide docker files, other people have written very good ones. Take a look at https://github.com/Angristan/dockerfiles/tree/master/pleroma or https://github.com/sn0w/pleroma-docker.
-
-### Dependencies
-
-* Postgresql version 9.6 or newer
-* Elixir version 1.5 or newer. If your distribution only has an old version available, check [Elixir's install page](https://elixir-lang.org/install.html) or use a tool like [asdf](https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf).
-* Build-essential tools
-
-### Configuration
-
- * Run `mix deps.get` to install elixir dependencies.
-
- * 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`. It will also create a `config/setup_db.psql`; you may want to double-check this file in case you wanted a different username, or database name than the default. Then you need to run the script as PostgreSQL superuser (i.e. `sudo su postgres -c "psql -f config/setup_db.psql"`). It will create a pleroma db user, database and will setup needed extensions that need to be set up. Postgresql super-user privileges are only needed for this step.
+### 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/).
- * For these next steps, the default will be to run pleroma using the dev configuration file, `config/dev.secret.exs`. To run them using the prod config file, prefix each command at the shell with `MIX_ENV=prod`. For example: `MIX_ENV=prod mix phx.server`. Documentation for the config can be found at [``config/config.md``](config/config.md)
+### 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.
- * Run `mix ecto.migrate` to run the database migrations. You will have to do this again after certain updates.
+- [Alpine Linux](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/alpine_linux_en/)
+- [Arch Linux](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/arch_linux_en/)
+- [CentOS 7](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/centos7_en/)
+- [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/)
+- [FreeBSD](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/freebsd_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/)
- * You can check if your instance is configured correctly by running it with `mix phx.server` 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.
+### 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**.
- * 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/
- The simplest way to obtain and install a certificate is to use [Certbot.](https://certbot.eff.org) Depending on your specific setup, certbot may be able to get a certificate and configure your web server automatically.
-
-## Running
-
-* 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.
-
-### Frontends
-Pleroma comes with two frontends. The first one, Pleroma FE, can be reached by normally visiting the site. The other one, based on the Mastodon project, can be found by visiting the /web path of your site.
-
-### As systemd service (with provided .service file)
-Example .service file can be found in `installation/pleroma.service` you can put it in `/etc/systemd/system/`.
-Running `service pleroma start`
-Logs can be watched by using `journalctl -fu pleroma.service`
-
-### As OpenRC service (with provided RC file)
-Copy ``installation/init.d/pleroma`` to ``/etc/init.d/pleroma``.
-You can add it to the services ran by default with:
-``rc-update add pleroma``
-
-### Standalone/run by other means
-Run `mix phx.server` in repository's root, it will output log into stdout/stderr
-
-### Using an upstream proxy for federation
+### 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>.
-Add the following to your `dev.secret.exs` or `prod.secret.exs` if you want to proxify all http requests that pleroma makes to an upstream proxy server:
+### Raspberry Pi
+Community maintained Raspberry Pi image that you can flash and run Pleroma on your Raspberry Pi. Available here <https://github.com/guysoft/PleromaPi>.
- config :pleroma, :http,
- proxy_url: "127.0.0.1:8123"
+### Compilation Troubleshooting
+If you ever encounter compilation issues during the updating of Pleroma, you can try these commands and see if they fix things:
-This is useful for running pleroma inside Tor or i2p.
+- `mix deps.clean --all`
+- `mix local.rebar`
+- `mix local.hex`
+- `rm -r _build`
-## Troubleshooting
+If you are not developing Pleroma, it is better to use the OTP release, which comes with everything precompiled.
-### No incoming federation
+## Documentation
+- Latest Released revision: <https://docs.pleroma.social>
+- Latest Git revision: <https://docs-develop.pleroma.social>
-Check that you correctly forward the "host" header to backend. It is needed to validate signatures.
+## 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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