Distributed Social Network Projects

URL = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network

Federated Social Web

These are projects that are designed to run on servers and use federation protocols to reach out and interchange between each other.

6d, http://www.get6d.com/

Ampify, http://ampify.it/

Appleseed, http://opensource.appleseedproject.org

buddycloud, http://buddycloud.com/

couchappspora, http://github.com/maxogden/couchappspora

Crabgrass, http://crabgrass.riseup.net/

Diaspora, http://www.joindiaspora.com/

Diso, http://diso-project.org/

Duuit!, http://duuit.com/

Dyskinesia, http://about.psyc.eu/Dyskinesia

Friendika, http://friendika.com

GNU Social, http://www.gnu.org/software/social/

GNU Social P2P, http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:GNU_Social_P2P

HelloWorld, http://www.helloworld-network.org/cms/en/introduction/

Higgins, http://www.eclipse.org/higgins/

Jappix, http://codingteam.net/project/jappix

Knowee, http://knowee.org/home

Kopal, http://code.google.com/p/kopal/

Lorea, https://lorea.org/

Movim, http://www.movim.eu/

Noosfero, http://noosfero.org/

NoseRub, http://noserub.com/

OneSocialWeb, http://onesocialweb.org/

OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS), http://ods.openlinksw.com/wiki/ODS/

OpenMicroBlogger, http://openmicroblogger.org/

ownCloud, http://owncloud.org/

PanGaia, http://pangaia.sf.net

psyced, http://www.psyced.org/

psyconaut, http://about.psyc.eu/Psyconaut

psycTiVE, http://about.psyc.eu/Psyctive

PsycZilla, http://about.psyc.eu/PsycZilla

RSSN, http://rssn.hedgie.com/index.php

Saikound, http://about.psyc.eu/Saikound

SMOB, http://smob.me/

Social Nori, http://www.projectnori.org/

Socialriver, http://socialriver.org/

Socknet Provider- FoolishMortal.org, http://socknet.net/w/The_Socknet

StatusNet, http://status.net/

Thimbl, http://www.thimbl.net/

Weestit, http://www.weestit.com/

Distributed Social Networks

These are projects that are fully distributed and operate directly from people's devices without requiring servers. They have the advantage of providing end-to-end encryption between users and leave no social data on servers.

• freenet, https://freenetproject.org
• Friend2Friend, http://www.altruists.org/projects/ge/ff/
• Pandora, https://github.com/Novator/Pandora
• retroshare, http://retroshare.sourceforge.net
• Safebook, http://www.safebook.eu
• secushare, http://secushare.org
• versionvega, http://versionvega.com/vv/

More Information

Other lists of social networking projects:

• http://gitorious.org/social/pages/ProjectComparison
• http://we-need-a-free-and-open-social-network.wikispaces.com/Distributed+Social+Network+Projects
• https://wechselwiki.foebud.org/doku.php?id=software (http://socialswarm.net)