Distributed Social Network Projects
URL = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network
History
A Brief History of the GNU Social Fediverse and ‘The Federation’
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.
buddycloud, http://buddycloud.com/
Crabgrass, http://crabgrass.riseup.net/
Diaspora, https://diasporafoundation.org
Diso, http://diso-project.org/
Dyskinesia, http://about.psyc.eu/Dyskinesia
Elgg, https://elgg.org/
Friendica, http://friendi.ca/
GNU Social, https://gnu.io/social/
GNU Social P2P, http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:GNU_Social_P2P
Hubzilla, https://project.hubzilla.org
HumHub, https://www.humhub.org/
Mastodon, https://mastodon.social
Movim, http://www.movim.eu/
Noosfero, http://noosfero.org/
OpenSource Social Network, https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/
ownCloud, http://owncloud.org/
psyced, http://www.psyced.org/
psycTiVE, http://about.psyc.eu/Psyctive
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/
Inactive Development
- Ampify, https://github.com/tav/ampify
- Appleseed, https://github.com/appleseedproj/appleseed
- Monocles, https://github.com/maxogden/monocles
- HelloWorld, https://github.com/opensource-socialnetwork/HelloWorld
- Jappix, https://github.com/jappix/jappix
- Kopal, http://code.google.com/p/kopal/
- NoseRub, https://code.google.com/archive/p/noserub/
- OneSocialWeb, https://github.com/onesocialweb
- OpenMicroBlogger, https://github.com/voitto/openmicroblogger
- psyconaut, http://about.psyc.eu/Psyconaut
- PsycZilla, http://about.psyc.eu/PsycZilla
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: