mastodon/mastodon

Features

• ActivityPub Implementations - Implements the ActivityPub protocol to facilitate content exchange between disparate servers.
• Federated Social Servers - Acts as a self-hosted platform enabling decentralized social networking through interoperable protocols.
• Federated Networking Protocols - Facilitates decentralized social networking by allowing independent servers to communicate across a global network.
• Federated Protocols - Exchanges social data between independent servers using a standardized vocabulary to enable cross-platform communication.
• Content Statuses - Represents the primary content unit posted by accounts within the system.
• Microblogging Platforms - Provides a web-based environment for publishing short-form status updates and engaging with real-time streams.
• Relational Databases - Stores structured social graph data and content in a relational database to ensure transactional integrity.
• OAuth Authentication APIs - Provides standard OAuth API methods for authorizing users and managing access tokens.
• Command Line Interfaces - Executes administrative commands through the command-line interface to perform routine maintenance.
• Background Job Queues - Distributes heavy computational tasks and network-bound jobs to parallel worker processes.
• Content Moderation - Applies moderation actions to individual accounts, including freezing activity and limiting visibility.
• Moderation Tools - Provides administrative tools for managing user accounts, enforcing guidelines, and overseeing system health.
• Account Management APIs - Provides API methods for registering and managing user accounts and access tokens.
• Status APIs - Provides RESTful endpoints for creating, managing, and retrieving short-form social status updates.
• User Profiles - Defines the core data structure for user accounts and profile information.
• Open Source Applications - Microblogging and social networking platform.
• Communication and Community - Decentralized social networking and micro-blogging.
• Communication Tools - Self-hosted microblogging platform client.
• Social Networks - Listed in the “Social Networks” section of the Awesome Selfhosted awesome list.
• Social Networks and Forums - Federated microblogging server.
• Collaboration Tools - Listed in the “Collaboration Tools” section of the Awesome Mac awesome list.
• Personal Productivity and Utilities - Self-hosted microblogging platform for community interaction.
• Infrastructure Scaling - Optimizes database connections, background job queues, and worker processes for high-traffic stability.
• Media Management Tools - Provides a standardized data structure for handling file and media attachments.
• Streaming APIs - Enables real-time updates via persistent WebSocket or server-sent event connections.
• Authentication Security - Generates and updates secret keys for two-factor authentication to maintain account security.
• Server Administration - Provides operational tools for configuring network access and maintaining system performance.
• Real-Time Communication - Maintains persistent long-lived connections to push real-time notifications and feed updates to clients.
• Search APIs - Provides API methods for searching content across accounts, statuses, and hashtags.
• Search Engines - Implements full-text search and indexing to facilitate discovery of accounts, hashtags, and posts.
• Search Integration - Connects an external search engine cluster to enable comprehensive full-text search capabilities.
• Real-Time Data Streams - Maintains persistent connections to deliver live updates and notifications as events occur.
• Administrative Account Management - Provides administrative-level access to account metadata and moderation information.
• Firewall Management - Configures system-level firewall rules to drop incoming traffic from specific IP addresses.
• Moderation APIs - Provides API methods for administrators to view and moderate user accounts.
• Notification APIs - Provides API methods for retrieving notifications concerning user activity.
• User Notifications - Defines the data structure for tracking events and notifications relevant to users.
• Notifications & Announcements - Enables administrators to broadcast important notices and critical updates to the entire user base.
• Configuration Management - Injects system-level settings and infrastructure parameters at runtime to allow flexible deployment across diverse hosting environments.
• Queue Management - Assigns specific queues to background worker processes to ensure efficient execution of critical tasks.
• Content Filtering APIs - Provides API methods for creating and managing server-side keyword filters.
• Concurrency Tuning - Adjusts web worker processes and thread counts to optimize CPU and memory usage.
• Instance Discovery APIs - Provides API methods to discover general information and configuration about the server instance.
• User Management - Reviews and authorizes pending user accounts individually or in bulk.
• Trending Content APIs - Exposes endpoints to retrieve trending tags, statuses, and links based on platform activity.

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