Distributed Social Network Projects

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, http://lorea.cc/

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/
• 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)