Lycosand is a decentralized and federated social networking service, implementing the Lysand/ActivityPub standard.
It is a soft-fork from Iceshrimp, with the main goal to implement the Lysand federation protocol while maintaining support for ActivityPub and achieving feature-parity with commom fediverse stacks.
- Highlighted changes:
- Lysand federation protocol support
- First-class Mastodon client API support
- Significantly improved database performance
- Options to prune cached remote media automatically
- Proper support for split domain deployments, both local and remote
- So much more - Read the changelog to get an overview of all changes
- Don't like the Web UI? We test our Mastodon-compatible API against the following clients:
- Project goals:
- No-nonsense bug fixes
- QoL improvements
- Better performance
- Change of focus to actual community needs
- Prioritization of user choice and configurability
- Project anti-goals:
- Flashy marketing
- Commercialization of any kind
- Documentation on installing (and updating) Iceshrimp using:
- Documentation on migrating from Firefish, Foundkey and Misskey can be found here.
- Want to sign up at an existing instance?
- Check out FediDB or Fediverse Observer to get an overview of the instances that are out there.
- Please note that we do not operate a "flagship instance", the only project-affiliated domain is
iceshrimp.dev.
- Want to donate to the project?
- Our backend lead dev (zotan) is in need of a better laptop, as their current one does not have enough memory. You can contribute here. Any leftover money will be given to queers in need.
- Need help or want to contribute? Join the chat room!
