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+# Introduction to Pleroma
+## What is Pleroma?
+Pleroma is a federated social networking platform, compatible with Mastodon and other ActivityPub implementations. It is free software licensed under the AGPLv3.
+It actually consists of two components: a backend, named simply Pleroma, and a user-facing frontend, named Pleroma-FE. It also includes the Mastodon frontend, if that's your thing.
+It's part of what we call the fediverse, a federated network of instances which speak common protocols and can communicate with each other.
+One account on an instance is enough to talk to the entire fediverse!
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+## How can I use it?
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+Pleroma instances are already widely deployed, a list can be found at <https://the-federation.info/pleroma> and <https://fediverse.network/pleroma>.
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+If you don't feel like joining an existing instance, but instead prefer to deploy your own instance, that's easy too!
+Installation instructions can be found in the installation section of these docs.
+
+## I got an account, now what?
+Great! Now you can explore the fediverse! Open the login page for your Pleroma instance (e.g. <https://pleroma.soykaf.com>) and login with your username and password. (If you don't have an account yet, click on Register)
+
+### Pleroma-FE
+The default front-end used by Pleroma is Pleroma-FE. You can find more information on what it is and how to use it in the [Introduction to Pleroma-FE](../frontend).
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