



Zap is described as 'Open source decentralised social network with more privacy and less drama. Supports Zap and ActivityPub, starting with the latest release from 2019-09-22' and is a Social Network in the social & communications category. There are six alternatives to Zap for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, BSD, Ruby and PHP apps. The best Zap alternative is diaspora*, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Zap are Friendica, Hubzilla, GNU social and pump.io.




Friendica is a distributed social network application. Which allow users to connect with others via their own Friendica server, but may also fully integrate contacts from other platforms including Twitter, diaspora*, Pump.io and StatusNet into their 'newsfeed'.




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).




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.


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...
