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The mascot of the Mastodon social network. Mastodon is an open source, self-hosted, social networking service.Mastodon uses the ActivityPub protocol for federation which allows users to communicate between independent Mastodon instances and other ActivityPub compatible services.
Lemmy is a free and open-source software for running self-hosted social news aggregation and discussion forums. [3] [4] [5] These hosts, known as "instances", communicate with each other using the ActivityPub protocol.
GNU social (and its predecessor StatusNet) is a free and open-source microblogging social networking service that implements the OStatus and ActivityPub standards for interoperability between installations.
On 7 January 2011 Black Duck Software named the project one of its Open Source Rookies of 2010, for being "the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network". [43] In July 2011, Konrad Lawson, blogging for the Chronicle of Higher Education, suggested Diaspora as an alternative to Facebook and Google+. [44]
Open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media. Servers (relays) and clients Multiple implementations Public Domain Nostr Yes ActivityPub & Minds: Hundreds of relays: stable Peergos [44] P2P storage, social network, and application protocol p2p, server, web-client Java, Go, Javascript AGPLv3 libp2p, bitswap
Friendica (formerly Friendika, originally Mistpark) is a free and open-source software [5] distributed social network. It forms one part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers. [6] [7] [8]
Instances hosted by different social networking services may communicate with one another as well. A user on the microblogging platform Misskey, for example, may view and interact with posts made by users on Mastodon. Some fediverse networks even allow users to interact with different social networking formats from the same platform.
Elgg is open source social networking software that provides individuals and organizations with the components needed to create an online social environment. It offers blogging, microblogging, file sharing, networking, groups and a number of other features. It was also the first platform to bring ideas from commercial social networking ...