View source for Distributed Social Network Projects

A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network 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 [https://delightful.club/delightful_fediverse_apps/ Delightful.club].


== History ==

[https://medium.com/we-distribute/got-zot-mike-macgirvin-45287601ff19/ 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)

[https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2017/04/01/a-brief-history-of-the-gnu-social-fediverse-and-the-federation/ A Brief History of the GNU Social Fediverse and ‘The Federation’] by [[Strypey]] of [[Disintermedia]]

== Active Development ==

* Aardwolf, https://github.com/BanjoFox/aardwolf

* [[Diaspora]], https://diasporafoundation.org

* 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 ([https://www.humhub.org/en/licences GNU AGPL]), https://www.humhub.org/

* Mastodon, https://mastodon.social

* Mov.im, https://movim.eu/

* OpenSource Social Network, https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/ [https://github.com/opensource-socialnetwork/opensource-socialnetwork Source Code]

* [[Pandora_(p2p_social_network)|Pandora]], https://github.com/Novator/Pandora

* Peergos, https://peergos.github.io/book/overview/what_is_peergos.html

* 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 [https://ind.ie/blog/focus/ 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)

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[[Category:P2P_Infrastructure]]