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+Linstrom is a new social media server with the focus on providing users, moderators and admins alike
+simple, yet powerful features to moderate the experience.
+
+## Federation
+
+It is planned that Linstrom will federate at least with other Linstrom servers,
+but also possibly via ActivityPub and ATProto.
+
+It was never intended to be completely standalone, only existing for itself,
+but rather to join at least one of the growing networks and interoperate
+with those networks.
+
+## Why Linstrom when \<insert ActivityPub server here\> already exists?
+
+Because of moderation tooling. I have a bunch of friends that happen to be
+the moderators or owners of various servers with differing software
+(Sharkey, Mastodon, Akkoma as example).
+And they all have different woes with their software.
+
+I want to try and make a server that combines the strengths of various
+project's tooling while also hopefully solving
+some of the weaknesses.