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Hometown vs glitch-soc: catalog facts
Hometown	glitch-soc
Free Free and open source; you pay only for your own hosting.	Free Free and open source; you pay only for your own server.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Local-only posts that stay on your own instance Supports a wider range of content types than Mastodon	Adds formatted posts, local-only posts and threaded mode to Mastodon Installs and updates the same way as Mastodon
Requires running and maintaining your own Mastodon-style server Follows upstream Mastodon, so new features can arrive later	Experimental features may make it less stable than upstream Mastodon Requires running and maintaining your own server
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026

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