From 48309c141e8f555c277136122fe339534f88d39a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: FloatingGhost Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 23:57:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add "differences" in readme --- README.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c3ead7fc1..74b8919e4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,6 +14,27 @@ For clients it supports the [Mastodon client API](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/ - [Client Applications for Akkoma](https://docs.akkoma.dev/stable/clients/) +## Differences with Pleroma + +Akkoma is a faster-paced fork, it has a varied and potentially experimental feature set tailored specifically to the corner of the fediverse inhabited by the project +creator and contributors. + +This should not be considered a one-for-one match with pleroma; it is more opinionated in many ways, and has a smaller community (which is good or +bad depending on your view) + +For example, Akkoma has: +- Custom Emoji reactions (compatible with misskey) +- Misskey-flavoured markdown support +- Elasticsearch and Meilisearch support for search +- Mastodon frontend (Glitch-Soc and Fedibird flavours) support +- Automatic post translation via DeepL or LibreTranslate +- A multitude of heavy modifications to the Pleroma Frontend (Pleroma-FE) +- The "bubble" concept, in which instance administrators can choose closely-related instances to make a "community of communities", so to say + +And takes a more opinionated stance on issues like Domain blocks, which are enforced far more on Akkoma. + +Take a look at the Changelog if you want a full list of recent changes, everything since 3.0 has been Akkoma. + ## Installation ### OTP releases (Recommended) -- 2.45.2