Smalltown is a fork of Mastodon. Smalltown is designed for civic communities looking to run their own social networks, though any community that is well-defined and has a purpose may find it useful. It is intended for sites that use Mastodon’s limited federation mode (federation whitelist) and are either completely siloed or federate with a few, trusted sites.

Smalltown has some key differences from Mastodon. This wiki documents those differences. Here is a table of contents:

• How to set up a site that runs Smalltown
• Latest release

• SSO with Facebook, Google, Twitter, and OpenID
• Post queue
• Post digest
• Color themes
• Custom logos
• Custom tutorial flow
• Featured topics
• Restore deleted posts
• Local timeline RSS
• Disable replies
• Custom email notifications for post-level moderation actions
• Site staff can see followers-only posts
• Only users with private accounts can mark posts followers-only
• Staff badges
• Configurable max post characters
• Support this site link

• Configurable SSO auto-approval
• Configurable direct messages
• Configurable API access
• Configurable personal featured hashtags
• Configurable bookmarks
• Configurable lists
• Configurable advanced relationships page
• Configurable icons, favicons
• Configurable private posts and accounts

• Added SSO to about pages
• Removed footer links, third-party app buttons, and user stats
• Removed federated timeline when completely siloed
• Removed verified links
• Unbranded

• Added about pages back to limited federation mode
• Made activity and trends API available in limited federation mode
• Added embed to limited federation mode