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- Embed this notice@pzriddle @pixiekat Mastodon is the second heaviest server software and the most Twitter-like by default.
Pleroma was made as a lighter alternative to Mastodon with stricter adherence to the ActivityPub protocol spec - its so small that you can even run it on a Raspberry Pi. It also has the ability to support multiple frontends, which is handy if you want it to look like Mastodon or anything else.
Akkoma is a fork of Pleroma with more patches and feature parity to Misskey. Still nice and small.
Misskey is heaviest server I know of, it was originally built to be its own social website before adding fediverse support. It got a whole bunch of features unique to Misskey - except for what Akkoma is (slowly) catching up to.
There's also Friendica which is basically "what if the fediverse looked like Facebook?", which can be interesting if that's your thing.
There's even more servers and it'll be a long list to go over them all, but I will mention that GNU social - the original fediverse server Mastodon was made as an alternative to - is still around and very much in use.