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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** |