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+# Solid
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+### Identity
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+### Data Storage/Message Persistance
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+### Moderation/Reputation
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+### Social/Discovery
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+### Privacy and Access Control
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+### Monetization
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+### Interop with other systems
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+### Scalability
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+### Metrics
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+### In the wild
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+[Pleroma](https://pleroma.social/) is compatible but running different software, also talking the ActivityPub protocol. According to stats at [the-federation.info](the-federation.info), Pleroma has 620 nodes with 35K users as of 5/2020  Users on Mastodon and Pleroma can communicate.
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+Gab is running a fork of the Mastodon software but has been banned; technically users there could communicate with the others if they were not explicitly banned.
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+### Links
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+[https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/)