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

• Elgg, https://elgg.org/

• Friendica, http://friendi.ca/

• GNU Social, https://gnu.io/social/

• 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/

• Pandora, https://github.com/Novator/Pandora

• secushare, http://secushare.org

• ZeroMe, https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroMe

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
• 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
• 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
• psyced, http://about.psyc.eu/Psyced
• 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

• 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