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. An actively maintained list can be found at Delightful.club.
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)