Distributed Social Network Projects
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A distributed social network allows for multiple servers to host user data. These servers communicate and provide one another with the user data.
History
Got Zot — Mike Macgirvin on building your own apps and protocols by from the We Distribute blog series by Sean Tilley (former Community Manager of Diaspora, also active in the Hubzilla community)
A Brief History of the GNU Social Fediverse and ‘The Federation’ by Strypey of Disintermedia
Active Development
- Aardwolf, https://github.com/BanjoFox/aardwolf
- Elgg, https://elgg.org/
- Friendica (formerly Friendika, Mistpark), http://friendi.ca/
- GNU Social (formerly StatusNet), https://gnu.io/social/
- Hubzilla, https://project.hubzilla.org
- HumHub (GNU AGPL), https://www.humhub.org/
- Mastodon, https://mastodon.social
- Mov.im, https://movim.eu/
- OpenSource Social Network, https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/ Source Code
- QBix, http://qbix.com/platform
- pump.io, http://pump.io/ (used now in Identi.ca)
- secushare, http://secushare.org (social client for GNUNet)
- Socialhome, https://github.com/jaywink/socialhome
- Salut à Toi, https://salut-a-toi.org/
- Sola (formerly Plague, then Plag), https://sola.foundation/
- SSB (Secure ScuttleButt), http://scuttlebutt.nz/
- Twister, https://twister.net.co
- ZeroMe, https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroMe (social client for ZeroNet)
Inactive Development
- Ampify, https://github.com/tav/ampify
- Appleseed, https://github.com/appleseedproj/appleseed
- buddycloud, http://buddycloud.com
- Diso, http://diso-project.org/
- Dyskinesia, http://about.psyc.eu/Dyskinesia
- Friend2Friend, http://friend2friend.net
- Heartbeat, https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ : Client apps were only being developed for MacOSX and iOS, but the Ethical Design Manifesto they developed to work under is impressive.
- HelloWorld, https://github.com/opensource-socialnetwork/HelloWorld
- Jappix, https://github.com/jappix/jappix
- Kopal, http://code.google.com/p/kopal/
- Laconica, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconica (original name of StatusNet, which is now GNU Social)
- Lorea, https://lorea.io (discontinued fork of Elgg, which added OStatus support with plugins)
- Monocles, https://github.com/maxogden/monocles
- Nightweb, https://sekao.net/nightweb/
- Noosfero, http://noosfero.org/
- NoseRub, https://code.google.com/archive/p/noserub/
- OneSocialWeb, https://github.com/onesocialweb
- OpenMicroBlogger, https://github.com/voitto/openmicroblogger
- P2P GNU Social, http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:GNU_Social_P2P
- PeerTweet, https://github.com/lmatteis/peer-tweet
- psyced, http://about.psyc.eu/Psyced
- psyconaut, http://about.psyc.eu/Psyconaut
- PsycZilla, http://about.psyc.eu/PsycZilla
- Qantiqa, https://github.com/imdario/qantiqa
- Saikound, http://about.psyc.eu/Saikound
- Socialriver, http://socialriver.org/
- Socknet Provider- FoolishMortal.org, https://sourceforge.net/projects/foomor-socknet/
- StatusNet, http://status.net/ (development continues under the name GNU Social)
- Thimbl, https://github.com/thimbl/Thimbl-UI
- Trsst, https://github.com/TrsstProject/trsst
- versionvega, https://github.com/peacekeeper/versionvega
Related
- Federated Social Web
- Federated Social Networks
- Open_Source_Social_Networking
- P2P Communication Software
- P2P Web Hosting
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_(information_technology)
- https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet
- [some information about technical infrastructure for distributed apps](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11146230) from the developer of [Gun-RTC](https://github.com/gundb/gun-rtc)