pixelfed/pixelfed

Features

• ActivityPub Implementations - Implements the ActivityPub protocol to enable decentralized social communication and media sharing across servers.
• Federated Content Sharing - Functions as a decentralized image gallery and social network using ActivityPub for cross-server content sharing.
• Self-Hosted Image Galleries - Provides a self-hosted media service with user accounts and portfolios for managing digital photography.
• Social Media Publishers - Provides a content creation system for publishing and editing social posts with captions and tags.
• Media Storage Abstractions - Decouples application logic from specific storage providers through an abstraction layer for local and cloud media.
• Self-Hosted Media Servers - Provides a self-hosted platform for managing user profiles, media posts, and private community interactions.
• Federated Media Hosting - Implements a decentralized model for storing and organizing large collections of images and videos across federated servers.
• Photo Sharing Platforms - Ships a decentralized social network specifically designed for sharing photos and videos across federated servers.
• Federated Social Servers - Operates as a node in a decentralized social network, allowing independent instances to communicate and share profiles.
• Content Organization Systems - Groups related posts into custom categories and portfolios to improve content discovery and navigation.
• Social Media Importers - Includes tools for importing photos and videos from Instagram accounts to migrate portfolios to a self-hosted system.
• Content Moderation Tools - Ships a moderation suite for blocking domains and users and applying content warnings to maintain community standards.
• Social Content Discovery - Includes a discovery system for browsing network-wide timelines and finding trending hashtags and locations.
• S3-Compatible Cloud Storage - Employs a driver-based storage abstraction to manage media across local disks or S3-compatible cloud object storage.
• Social Media Content Retrievers - Retrieves photos and videos from external Instagram accounts to migrate digital portfolios into the system.
• Image Processing - Includes a visual processing system to adjust photo appearances using custom filters.
• Federated Private Messaging - Provides a secure one-on-one messaging system for direct communication across the federated network.
• Federated Account Migration - Provides utilities for moving user accounts and social relationships between different federated server instances.
• Client-Side Media Processing - Uses WebGL to apply visual image filters directly in the browser, reducing server-side processing load.
• Social Networks - Listed in the “Social Networks” section of the Awesome Selfhosted awesome list.
• Social Networks and Forums - Federated image-sharing social platform.
• Application Examples - Federated photo sharing platform powered by ActivityPub.

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