Friendica Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• Open Source Community/forum platform
  1 project | reddit.com/r/opensource | 22 Jan 2022

  take a look at https://friendi.ca/

• Incorrectly Deleted from Facebook? Getting Back on Might Take Connections
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2021
• What are some of the open source apps or websites that helped you with your startup?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/smallbusiness | 10 Dec 2021

  Pixelfed is an open source version of Instagram and Friendica for Facebook

• Any recommendations for self-hosted alternative to facebook? (group conversations and image sharing)
  1 project | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 13 Nov 2021
• Highschoolers looking for an alternative to Facebook/Instagram?
  5 projects | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 9 Nov 2021

  Friendica (open source, dunno that much about it, thought it was dead but it is not): https://friendi.ca/ .

• Seeking Recommendations: Decentralized Option for Something like a Facebook Group?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/Rad_Decentralization | 8 Nov 2021

  You could have a look at Friendica (https://friendi.ca/). The UI looks a bit dated, but other than that it is fully functional and is the platform within the Fediverse that is closest to Facebook in terms of functionality. It supports Forums, which is the equivalent to Facebook groups. Furthermore, it federates both with ActivityPub based services like Mastodon and also with Diaspora. What I personally also like and use a lot is the possibility to follow any RSS or Atom feed and receive updates from those directly to your Friendica timeline. So effectively, you can also follow any Twitter (via Nitter), Instagram (via Bibliogram) or Youtube (has RSS feeds built in) user directly from your account on decentralized non-profit Friendica. Not to mention, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds of any Wordpress based website, etc. So I guess this is the closest thing to what you are looking for. If you are fine with a more Discord style platform, I'd definitely also look into Element/Matrix, as others have suggested already. Cheers!

• friendica – A Decentralized Social Network
  1 project | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 24 Oct 2021
  1 project | reddit.com/r/PHP | 24 Oct 2021
  1 project | reddit.com/r/Rad_Decentralization | 24 Oct 2021
• diaspora - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
  6 projects | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 23 Oct 2021

  Friendica

• Trump's New Platform and the Affero General Public License (Of Mastodon)
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Oct 2021

  Mastodon (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/) is built on Rails and appears to have taken 10k+ commits over several years to build. Comparable products include Pleroma (https://github.com/Hostdon/pleroma/), which has 12k+ commits, and Friendica (https://github.com/friendica/friendica) is a bit older, and has about 32k+ commits.

  Based on those projects, I'd say the evidence suggests it's a fair amount of work.

• Unfollow Everything developer banned for life from Facebook services for creating plug-in to clean up news feed
  6 projects | reddit.com/r/programming | 8 Oct 2021

  Friendica: Facebook Alternative

• Los negocios y medios en PR deberían de dejar de ser tan dependientes de Facebook y sus productos
  1 project | reddit.com/r/PuertoRico | 6 Oct 2021
• Social Networks
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2021

  Nextcloud is probably among your better packaged options. Free Software / OSS:

  Share and collaborate on documents, send and receive email, manage your calendar and have video chats without data leaks.

  https://nextcloud.com/

  For a Twitter equivalent, Mastodon.

  Facebook's a bit more of a challenge --- longer-form content, the ability to group contacts, and the like.

  Principally there are Diaspora*, Friendica, and Hubzilla, all based on or near the ActivityPub standard.

  https://joinmastodon.org/

  https://friendi.ca/

  https://project.hubzilla.org/

  There are limits and compromises to these, though all should handle small-scale (family/community) sharing easily. Mastodon's at millions of users, the others are probably smaller.

  At scale, moderation and administration of Diaspora* is a bit of a pain, though that's (slowly) improving.

• Facebook Censored Me for Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2021

  * in case of a mute, it could also be not wanting their federated timeline to be flooded with primarily mastodon.social posts

  Lack of federation between these instances and mastodon.social could be a reason not to pick mastodon.social. (Similar situation applies to mastodon.online btw, which is a spin-off server of m.s.)

  Another reason to pick a different instance could be not wanting to use mainline Mastodon software. For example because you want to run your own instance on limited hardware (Mastodon can get a bit resource intensive), don't like Ruby, miss certain features, don't like the front-end (though alternative external front-ends to Mastodon do exist), or some other reason.

  Personally I am on an instance that runs [Mastodon Glitch Edition, also known as Glitch-Soc](https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/), which is a compatible fork of Mastodon which implements a bunch of nice features such as increased post character count (Mastodon defaults to 500 characters per post, Glitch-Soc supports increasing this in the server settings), Markdown support (though only instances that also support HTML-formatted posts will see your formatting; mainline Mastodon servers will serve a stripped down version of your post instead), and improved support for filters / content warnings / toot collapsing, optional warnings when posting uncaptioned media, and other additional features.

  Another alternative Mastodon fork is [Hometown](https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown) which focuses more on the local timeline (showing posts only from your own instance) with the addition of local-only posts, to nurture a tighter knit community.

  Aside from Mastodon there are other implementations of ActivityPub which can still federate with Mastodon instances, such as [Misskey](https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey), [diaspora*](https://diasporafoundation.org/) (which AFAIK inspired Google Plus back in the day), [Hubzilla](https://hubzilla.org//page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project), [Peertube](https://joinpeertube.org/) (focused on peer-to-peer video distribution), [Friendica](https://friendi.ca/), [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social/), [Socialhome](https://socialhome.network/), [GoToSocial](https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial), [Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org/) (which started as a sort of federated Instagram alternative) and more. [Fediverse.party](https://fediverse.party/) is a nice way to discover various protocols that make up the bigger Fediverse.