Distributed Social Network Projects
A distributed social network allows for multiple servers to host user data. These servers communicate and provide one another with the user data.
History
A Brief History of the GNU Social Fediverse and ‘The Federation’
Active Development
- 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/
- psyced, http://www.psyced.org/
- psycTiVE, http://about.psyc.eu/Psyctive
- secushare, http://secushare.org
Inactive Development
- Ampify, https://github.com/tav/ampify
- Appleseed, https://github.com/appleseedproj/appleseed
- buddycloud, http://buddycloud.com
- Monocles, https://github.com/maxogden/monocles
- Friend2Friend, http://friend2friend.net
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- versionvega, https://github.com/peacekeeper/versionvega
Related
- 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