From 2df96b1ecd3ea4cd6834defa4cff2340cb8ce026 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mStar Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:53:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add README --- README.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8513be3 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +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 \ 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.