GNU social
GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications. (by foocorp)
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Friendica
Friendica Communications Platform (by friendica)
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| GNU social | Friendica | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | |
| 94 | 1,192 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 9.9 | |
| over 4 years ago | about 9 hours ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
GNU social
Posts with mentions or reviews of GNU social.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-17.
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Alternative implementations
GnuSocial - Oldest microblogging platform.
Friendica
Posts with mentions or reviews of Friendica.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-06.
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Mastodon for Developers: Everything You Need to Know
Friendica servers (social networking and microblogging)
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We should move to some open source platform. This place stinks of proprietary software
Lemmy Aether ActivityPub Matrix Friendica Hubzilla PeerTube PixelFed GNU Social Mobilizon Fediverse Mastadon Element Pydio Syncthing IPFS FileCoin
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Alternative implementations
Friendica - Social network platform.
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Stop
to be fair, its not Mastodon, its the #Fediverse. Mastodon is arguably the least rich platfrom on the 'verse. IMHO Friendica is where its at, and you can still communicate with all the twitter refugees on Mastodon, as well as meater content on services likeDiaspora*, not to mention full integration with Lemmy (which works fairly similar to Reddit) while Masto you can see lemmy posts and replies without having to leave your preferred application or webpage, but you can only reply, you can post your own from a Mastodon account.
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Towards End-to-End Encryption for Direct Messages in the Fediverse (tangentially related to Mastodon)
I don't have a lot of confidence in the work that is currently being done. The developers who are excellent at building federated systems typically aren't cryptographers. For example. Another issue.
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Looking to leave Twitter? YSK there are open source and self-hosted alternatives
Facebook < Friendica
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Celebrities are starting to leave Twitter. Here's a running list.
ActivityPub is a decentralized social network used by Mastodon, which resembles an older version of Twitter, as well as Pixelfed, which resembles older Instagram, Friendica, which resembles older Facebook, and others.
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Confused beginner question on mirroring
Mastodon might be the wrong thing for you here, as it's more akin to Twitter. For Instagram you're better off with Pixelfed, for Facebook it would be Friendica. The advantage is that all of these can still talk to each other.
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Will Europe Force a Facebook Blackout?
AFAIK Friendica is closer to Facebook in function, with different community groups and such. It's part of the Fediverse too so kinda compatible with Mastodon. I haven't tried it though. Someone recommend a server?
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Our own social media
After what happened, I think it's the time to craft our own little social media. Decentralized social media. I'm not talking about Facebook, Twitter or even Reddit. I'm talking about social media like Mastodon, Pleroma and Friendica. What we need is work together actually. Some of us co-op by give time to host and maintain the VPS or dedicated server, others maybe help by moderate it and others help by donations or share.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing GNU social and Friendica you can also consider the following projects:
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Hubzilla
HumHub - HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.
PixelFed - Photo Sharing. For Everyone.
Movim - Movim - Decentralized social platform
FluxBB - FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website.
pleroma - https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma のFork
Socialhome - A federated social home
Pump.io - Social server with an ActivityStreams API