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 # GoToSocial
 
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+Federated social media software.
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 ![Sloth logo made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com](./assets/sloth.png)
 
 GoToSocial is a Fediverse server project, written in Golang. It provides an alternative to existing projects such as [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/), [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social/), [Friendica](https://friendica.net), [PixelFed](https://pixelfed.org/) etc.