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.
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
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