Glitch-Soc
social media
Current version: 2025.04.25~ynh1
glitch-soc is a friendly fork of the open-source social media software Mastodon, with the aim of providing additional features at the risk of potentially less stable software.
⚠️ glitch-soc is beta software, and under active development. Use at your own risk!
What's different from Mastodon?
glitch-soc adds a number of experimental features to Mastodon, such as:
- Media improvements
- Images inside the CW spoiler
- fullwidth images
- scaling options
- Formatted toots
- Reply selection in lists
- Filter improvements
- Highlighting of misleading links
- Hiding follower count
- An app settings modal
- Collapsible toots
- Toot visibility icons
- Local-only toots
- Threaded mode
data-*attributes on statuses- Advanced theming via flavours+skins
- Doodle
See more on the documentation.
This app requires an unusual amount of RAM to install: 1G
Important infos before installing
Important points to read before installing
- Glitch-Soc require a dedicated root domain, eg. glitchsoc.domain.tld
- You can't change the domain once installed.
- The user choosen during the installation is automatically created in Glitch-Soc with admin rights
- At the end of the installation a mail is sent to the user with the automatically generated password
- It seems important to close the inscriptions for your Glitch-Soc, so that it remains a private body. We invite you to block remote malicious instances from the administration interface. You can also add text on your home page.
Using screen in case of disconnect
Glitch-Soc's install can be long, depending on the server performance. To prevent the process from being stopped because of disconnect, you can use a screen session
$ sudo apt-get install screen
$ screen
$ sudo yunohost app install glitchsoc
Recover after disconnect:
$ screen -d
$ screen -r