Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?

• freefeed-server

  1 42 9.1 JavaScript

  FreeFeed server

  

• Smithereen

  7 346 8.8 Java

  Federated, ActivityPub-compatible social network server with friends, walls, and groups.

They do, or rather not old Facebook, but old VK: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

As a bonus it's an ActivityPub enabled application, so any specific instance of it requires less work to get the network effect going. :)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Elgg

  11 1,621 9.4 PHP

  A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL

  

• jonline

  6 60 9.8 TypeScript

  Dumfederated gRPC social network implemented in Rust/Tonic/Diesel with both Flutter and React (web+native) frontends. 🐕💩EZ to deploy to your k8s cluster.

I am (sort of), but it's decentralized and AGPL-licensed, and has more chat-oriented features that old Facebook didn't. Chronological sorting, no likes, a heavy focus on events. I hope to get some local businesses and/or municipal governments deploying it in the next year or so.

Last time I posted it to HN (earlier in development) it got hugged to death pretty quickly. But this is only a comment rather than a full post, and I've made Jonline a bit more resilient (and stuck its HTML and media behind a CDN), so let's see how this goes :)

https://github.com/jonlatane/jonline

Suggest a related project