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A supported fork of Mastodon that provides local posting and a wider range of content types.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2020-10-27 · latest 2022-11-11

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    Hometown: A light weight fork of Mastodon
    story by JadoJodo · 2022-11-11 · 2 comments
  2. …Mastodon project, hence maintaining this fork instead of trying to commit the changes to Mastodon." https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown#readme
    comment by sandyarmstrong · 2022-11-11 · in Scaling Mastodon in the face of an exodus
  3. …different features [1] that Mastodon may never opt to include as it changes the behavior a bit. 1: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki
    comment by huimang · 2022-11-11 · in Scaling Mastodon in the face of an exodus
  4. …(like Twitter). If someone isn't comfortable with that they shouldn't use Mastodon. [1]: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
    comment by masukomi · 2022-10-07 · in Mastodon.technology Shutdown
  5. …post feature, posts that deliberately do not federate. I think it's an interesting experiment. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
    comment by NelsonMinar · 2022-05-14 · in Tilde.town is a computer meant for sharing
  6. …(your Home community). A new application GoToSocial [1] also supports local-only posts. [0] https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown [1] https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
    comment by rapnie · 2022-04-19 · in Mastodon for Android
  7. …uncaptioned media, and other additional features. Another alternative Mastodon fork is Hometown ( https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown ) which focuses more on the local timeline (showing posts only from your own instance) with the…
    comment by FiXato · 2021-09-11 · in Facebook Censored Me For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon
  8. …doesn't do that but it's a step in the right direction because it encourages rich content types. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/More-content-...
    comment by mfkp · 2020-10-27 · in Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
  9. …* https://github.com/lowercasename/gathio * https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether * https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown Mastodon fork with basic event stuff (This is not to take away from Mobilizon - congrats to them!)
    comment by jarofgreen · 2020-10-27 · in Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups