Distributed Social Network

Mastodon is a decentralized microblogging engine, an alternative implementation of the GNU social project.

FEATURES

• Free and open-source.
• Decentralized, no worries about a single company controlling your communications.
• Fully interoperable with GNU social and any OStatus platform
• Real-time timeline updates
• Media attachments
• OAuth2 and a straightforward REST API
• Background processing for long-running tasks
• Deployable via Docker

Diaspora is a federated social networking service, designed to be a more privacy-aware alternative to Facebook . Share what you want, with whom you want.

Diaspora lets you sort your connections into groups called aspects. Unique to Diaspora, aspects ensure that your photos, stories and jokes are shared only with the people you intend.

Diaspora makes sharing clean and easy – and this goes for privacy too. Inherently private, Diaspora doesn’t make you wade through pages of settings and options just to keep your profile secure.

It is based on Ruby , Ruby on Rails

GNU social is a continuation of the StatusNet project. It is social communication software for both public and private communications. It is widely supported and has a large userbase. It is already used by the Free Software Foundation, and Richard Stallman himself.

The history of GNU social

GNU social was started in 2010 as a spin-off from the GNU FM project that was created to power music communities such as Libre.fm. In 2013, Evan Prodromou continued to develop social software for the web as Pump.io, and kindly donated all of his work to the Free Software Foundation, so we merged the existing project with StatusNet and another project called FreeSocial. And here we are.

What's next?

Thanks to Bytemark, GNU social has a new home in the UK, with resources to open a series of public GNU social servers for new users, including private servers dedicated to GNU social development.

Friendica is a distributed social network application which runs on commodity hosting platforms - PHP/MySQL/Apache. (If you can install Drupal or Wordpress you can probably install Friendica)

A single Friendica installation supports up to several thousand members.

Every Friendica installation can connect with any other to create a social network without limits. (And one that nobody can own or control).

Friendica can also connect to your friends in other social networks - such as Status.Net, identi.ca, GNU-social, and Google Buzz. The list of supported networks is growing.

Pleroma is a federated social networking platform, compatible with GNU social and other OStatus implementations. It is free software licensed under the AGPLv3. It actually consists of two components: a backend, named simply Pleroma, and a user-facing frontend, named Pleroma-FE.

Pleroma-FE is the single column frontend bundled with Pleroma. It is highly customizable, with an impressive set of features.

• Per-user color themes
• Smart collapsible conversations
• Independently scrolling notification sidebar
• NSFW attachment hiding
• Post filtering
• Supports both Pleroma and stock GNU social backends
• Can be run in parallel to another frontend

Advantages of the Pleroma backend

• High-performance
• Light memory usage
• Runs on a Raspberry Pi
• Support for ActivityPub

PixelFed is a federated image sharing platform, powered by the ActivityPub protocol.

Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected based websites featuring a decentralised identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology. Hubzilla is very suitable for communities (of any size).

Riot (formerly Vector) is an opensource interoperable app running on Web, iOS and Android. It is built around chat rooms, both public and private and provides messaging, filesharing, voice and video conferencing (beta on Android and web), integrations to tools like GitHub, Jira, Jenkins and much more soon. Vector is built on the Matrix.org open standard which provides bridges to other systems such as Slack, IRC and a lot more soon. One can use the hosted service or run their own.

Our philosophy is that your data are yours and you must always be in control. Movim achieves this through a complete decentralisation of users' data and accounts.

Register wherever you want! Movim keeps you in touch with your family and friends, even if they are on a different server. Your data follow you on any Movim node you use.

Why not gear up? You can easily install a Movim node on your own server, and be free!

Movim relies on the enterprise-class XMPP protocol. With Movim, you will never be locked in by a single vendor, your Gmail® and Facebook® contacts will be available, and even WLM®, Yahoo® and many others.

The Movim platform integrates everything you need to connect to your favourite XMPP server and communicate freely.

We are proud to use JAXL, the powerful XMPP library for PHP.

Movim employs only Free and open-source software respectful of the Internet's fundamental philosophy (neutrality, privacy and freedom).

Movim is Free Software and licensed under AGPLv3 with the exception of a component under LGPLv3 and the GNU FDL for the documentation.

Movim and its community are dedicated to promote the ethics and ideals of the Free Software.

You can get the SourceCode here: http://codingteam.net/project/movim

Post something and your followers see it.

You can post almost anything that can be represented with activity streams -- short or long text, bookmarks, images, video, audio, events, geo checkins. You can follow friends, create lists of people, and so on.

There's an API defined in the API.md file. It uses activitystrea.ms JSON as the main data and command format.

The software is useful for at least these scenarios:

• Mobile-first social networking
• Activity stream functionality for an existing app
• Experimenting with social software

It also comes with a web UI.

Libertree is free, libre, open-source software which is intended to provide a way for people to create their own social network. Libertree social networks can be free from commercial influence and manifestation, such as behaviour tracking, user profiling, advertising, data mining and analysis, and covert information filtering.

The Libertree Project is a community of people committed to empowering the people of the world to do things on and with computers, without need for or interference from big business, by way of providing software and other tools which can be obtained, bought or built with minimal cost and effort.

kune is a social network where you can communicate, collaborate and share between equals, using different web tools: documents, calendars, chats, wiki, messages, tasks, forums, barters.

Features

All the functionalities of Apache Wave, that is collaborative federated real-time editing, plus
Communication
Chat and chatrooms compatible with Gmail and Jabber through XMPP (with several XEP extensions), as it integrates Emite
Social networking (federated)
Real-time collaboration for groups in:
Documents: as in Google Docs
Wikis
Lists: as in Google Groups but minimizing emails, through waves
Group Tasks
Group Calendar: as in Google Calendar, with ical export
Group Blogs
Web-creation: aiming to publish contents directly on the web (as in WordPress, with a dashboard and public view) (in development)
Bartering: aiming to decentralize bartering as in eBay
Advanced email
Waves: aims to replace most uses of email
Inbox: as in email, all your conversations and documents in all kunes are controlled from your inbox
Email notifications (Projected: replies from email)
Multimedia & Gadgets
Image or Video galleries integrated in any doc
Maps, mindmaps, Twitter streams, etc.
Polls, voting, events, etc.
Usability
Strong focus on usability for any user
Animated tutorials for each tool
Drag&Drop for sharing contents, add users to a doc, change roles, delete contents, etc.
Shortcuts
Developer-friendly
Debian/Ubuntu package for easy installation
Wave Gadgets can be programmed in Java+GWT, JavaScript or Python