@Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (streams) has always been a fully-fledged Fediverse server application capable of working as a decentralised social network, only that it has been slimmed down in extra features in comparison to Hubzilla to be easier to maintain. Its federation is reduced to Nomad, Zot6 and ActivityPub, and apps like Calendar, Articles, Webpages and Wiki are gone, too, while it got to keep WebDAV, CardDAV and now-headless CalDAV. On the other hand, its ActivityPub connectivity has been improved.

Its original intention was not to be built into other projects, but other projects to be built around/on top of it by developing add-ons for it and giving it a name. (streams) itself doesn't have a name, doesn't have a brand, doesn't have a logo and isn't actually even a project, only a software repository. But if you take what's in that software repository and install it on a Web server, you still get something that blows Friendica out of the water in all but cross-protocol federation, calendar and maybe fancy UI elements.

Its main "issues", apart from not handling anything like Mastodon either, are that it has precious few public instances with open sign-up, and that its very concept (it doesn't have a unique identifier for its instances, and it's being kept away from all instance listing websites) makes its instances next to impossible to find unless you already know one.

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