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| author | Eugen Rochko <eugen@zeonfederated.com> | 2016-02-23 13:08:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Eugen Rochko <eugen@zeonfederated.com> | 2016-02-23 13:08:01 +0100 |
| commit | 3b0bc18db928c455186273d9b9aa5b96d91e035e (patch) | |
| tree | a372d4506ace34debd9cf500a597bc27ecb74705 /README.md | |
| parent | 2bc48e9064c56101d1761a10d8c5badba60d2bbe (diff) | |
Improved Atom rendering templates, added README
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ce820af34 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Mastodon +======== + +Mastodon is a federated microblogging engine. An alternative implementation of the GNU Social project. Based on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon. + +The core ideals of this project are: + +- Independence of legacy Twitter APIs - we don't want to be compatible with Twitter clients, we want our own clients +- In that vein, a strong and clean REST API and OAuth2 +- Minimalism. Just because you can do almost anything with ActivityStreams doesn't mean you should. Limit the set of possible functions to what makes sense in a microblogging engine. This will make federation as well as UI design a lot easier +- Ease of deployment. The end-goal of this project is to be distributable as a Docker image. + +**Current status of the project is early development. Documentation, licensing information &co will be added later** |