iceshrimp/README.md
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Iceshrimp

Iceshrimp is a decentralized and federated social networking service, implementing the ActivityPub standard.
It was forked from Calckey Firefish (itself a fork of Misskey) in mid-2023, to focus on stability, performance and usability instead of new features.


  • Highlighted changes:
    • First-class Mastodon client API support
    • Significantly improved database performance
    • Options to prune cached remote media automatically
    • Proper support for split domain deployments, both local and remote
    • So much more - Read the changelog to get an overview of all changes
  • Don't like the Web UI? We test our Mastodon-compatible API against the following clients:
  • Project goals:
    • No-nonsense bug fixes
    • QoL improvements
    • Better performance
    • Change of focus to actual community needs
    • Prioritization of user choice and configurability
  • Project anti-goals:
    • Flashy marketing
    • Commercialization of any kind
  • Documentation on installing (and updating) Iceshrimp using:
  • Want to sign up at an existing instance?
    • Check out FediDB or Fediverse Observer to get an overview of the instances that are out there.
    • Please note that we do not operate a "flagship instance", the only project-affiliated domain is iceshrimp.dev.
  • Need help or want to contribute? Join the matrix room!