<article> <h1>Akkoma (Fediverse)</h1> <section> <address class="h-card"> by <a rel="author" class="u-url" href="http://changelog.ca/"><span class="p-given-name">Charles</span> <span class="p-additional-name">Iliya</span> <span class="p-family-name">Krempeaux</span></a> </address> </section> <section> <p> <strong>Akkoma</strong> is <strong>Fediverse</strong> software focused on <strong>micro-blogging</strong>, that started its life as a fork of <ziba-link transform="lowercase">Pleroma</ziba-link>. </p> <p> Being software for a micro-blogging social-media network, <strong>Akkoma</strong> is similar to: </p> <ul> <li><ziba-link transform="lowercase">Firefish</ziba-link>,</li> <li><ziba-link transform="lowercase">Friendica</ziba-link>,</li> <li><ziba-link transform="lowercase">GNU Social</ziba-link>,</li> <li><ziba-link transform="lowercase">GoToSocial</ziba-link>,</li> <li><ziba-link transform="lowercase">Mastodon</ziba-link>,</li> <li><ziba-link transform="lowercase">Misskey</ziba-link>,</li> <li><ziba-link transform="lowercase">Pleroma</ziba-link>,</li> <li>and others.</li> </ul> </section> <section> <h2>Name</h2> <p> Akkoma's name is an homage to a character from the anime <strong>Little Witch Academia</strong> — <strong>Atsuko Kagari</strong>. </p> <p> <strong>Atsuko Kagari</strong>'s nickname is <strong>Akko</strong>. Thus the name ‘<strong>Akkoma</strong>’. </p> <p> The Akkoma logo even includes a witch's hat — again, a reference to <strong>Atsuko Kagari</strong> a.k.a. <strong>Akko</strong>. </p> <p> The tag-line for Akkoma is also: </p> <blockquote> <p> Magically expressive social media </p> </blockquote> <p> Which again is a reference to <strong>Atsuko Kagari</strong> a.k.a. <strong>Akko</strong>. </p> </section> </article>