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Top 8 Ruby social-network Projects
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Project mention: Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-13
Mastodon v4+ replicates some of the issues with Twitter by giving prominence to highly followed accounts. This is considered "easier" for new users coming from elsewhere (in the sense it's easier to be bombarded with posts you didn't need, than to go look for what you actually need).
The issue is tracked at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18128 .
So, even on Mastodon you still need some self-care. Avoid following popular accounts, block and silence generously.
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Project mention: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-21
* Look into Diaspora. (https://diasporafoundation.org/). Upside: It's basically a self-hosted facebook. Really cool project. Downside: Unlike facebook, there's no fake/pushed content so it tended to feel stale.
* Look into hosting a forum (e.g. phpBB). Forums are excellent because they don't lose old information like facebook does. When someone says "Hey what's the policy on dogs?" three years later I can search "dogs" and find the answer. Downside: They're not pretty, not full of pictures and no infinite scrollingz. sadge alfababies.
* IRC chat. I hosted an IRC group for several years at work and it worked great. We only killed it when we decided to move to an enterprise communication app.
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Koala
A lightweight Facebook library supporting the Graph, Marketing, and Atlas APIs, realtime updates, test users, and OAuth.
Project mention: 50+ APIs (All Free!) For Savvy Marketers & Content Developers🔥 | dev.to | 2025-06-1321. Facebook API
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(open source) Self-hostable, private social media alternative (like Facebook circa 2012). Functionally it is a private blog that speaks RSS with a built-in RSS aggregator. Self-hosting being the only way to actually have privacy in a social-media-type space.
https://github.com/havenweb/haven
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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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).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source social-network projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mastodon | 48,562 |
| 2 | diaspora* | 13,571 |
| 3 | Koala | 3,557 |
| 4 | annict | 738 |
| 5 | haven | 707 |
| 6 | retrospring | 288 |
| 7 | ecko | 56 |
| 8 | moriarty | 1 |
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