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# Introduction to Pleroma |
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## What is Pleroma? |
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Pleroma is a federated social networking platform, compatible with Mastodon and other ActivityPub implementations. It is free software licensed under the AGPLv3. |
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It actually consists of two components: a backend, named simply Pleroma, and a user-facing frontend, named Pleroma-FE. It also includes the Mastodon frontend, if that's your thing. |
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It's part of what we call the fediverse, a federated network of instances which speak common protocols and can communicate with each other. |
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One account on an instance is enough to talk to the entire fediverse! |
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## How can I use it? |
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Pleroma instances are already widely deployed, a list can be found at <https://the-federation.info/pleroma> and <https://fediverse.network/pleroma>. |
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If you don't feel like joining an existing instance, but instead prefer to deploy your own instance, that's easy too! |
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Installation instructions can be found in the installation section of these docs. |
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## I got an account, now what? |
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Great! Now you can explore the fediverse! Open the login page for your Pleroma instance (e.g. <https://pleroma.soykaf.com>) and login with your username and password. (If you don't have an account yet, click on Register) |
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### Pleroma-FE |
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The default front-end used by Pleroma is Pleroma-FE. You can find more information on what it is and how to use it in the [Introduction to Pleroma-FE](../frontend). |
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### Mastodon interface |
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If the Pleroma interface isn't your thing, or you're just trying something new but you want to keep using the familiar Mastodon interface, we got that too! |
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Just add a "/web" after your instance url (e.g. <https://pleroma.soycaf.com/web>) and you'll end on the Mastodon web interface, but with a Pleroma backend! MAGIC! |
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The Mastodon interface is from the Glitch-soc fork. For more information on the Mastodon interface you can check the [Mastodon](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/) and [Glitch-soc](https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/) documentation. |
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Remember, what you see is only the frontend part of Mastodon, the backend is still Pleroma. |