Top 3 PHP Decentralized Projects

Nextcloud

240 22,595 10.0 PHP

☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

Project mention: What is a good alternative to google maps timeline? | reddit.com/r/degoogle | 2023-05-26

As you are planning for degoogle, I would suggest Nextcloud + Les Pas for similar map timeline function. There is a short footage on Les Pas's link demonstrates it. Plus, Nextcloud will bring you contact, calendar sync and advanced group collaboration too.
spotweb

1 458 1.3 PHP

Decentralized community

Project mention: new to Usenet - what indexer is the best | reddit.com/r/usenet | 2022-12-01

For dutch users spotweb is great: https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb
SonarQube

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wordpress-activitypub

13 333 4.1 PHP

ActivityPub for WordPress

Project mention: Twenty Years of Blogging | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-10

Its a bittersweet feeling. Blogging was an information dissemination revolution that was made possible by the web. Giving individuals unprecedented ability to self-publish on any niche subject and reaching remote audiences anywhere in the world (the famous long-tail).
The revolution was suppressed. While easy enough to setup by writers (especially if not self-hosted) and accessed by readers, the combination of bookmarks, rss, blog comments and web based search and discovery was ultimately overtaken by the "super-easy" setups offered by the social media walled gardens (social graphs, follows, viral "likes", algorithmic timelines and a race to the short-form bottom).
But not all is lost. The extreme commercialization, privacy concerns and algorithmic oppression of social media has all but ruined it as a platform. People have been thinking and working on somehow reinstating the original promise of the web as a decentralized platform for self-publishing. While not quite yet mainstream, projects such as the Wordpress activitypub plugin [1] suggest we could dream of a new blogosphere blooming.
Here's to the next 20 years!
[1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-05-26.