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awesome-selfhosted
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
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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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Stream-Framework
Stream Framework is a Python library, which allows you to build news feed, activity streams and notification systems using Cassandra and/or Redis. The authors of Stream-Framework also provide a cloud service for feed technology:
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HumHub
HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.
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BuddyPress
BuddyPress DEVELOPMENT repo. This repository is just a mirror of the development SVN at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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- Welcome to Coding Standards for Open Source Social Network (OSSN)
- OSSN as an alternative?
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Open Source Social Network aka OSSN a social networking software
GITHUB Page: https://github.com/opensource-socialnetwork/opensource-socialnetwork
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Building a Site for a community based on shared interests?
Really depends on so many variables, and comes down to knowing the audience. I built a lightweight social network api platform to do a lot of what getstream.io and OSSN does, but the way users engaged with it was nothing like what I expected. One use case, for example, would have been mostly satisfied with WordPress and Mailchimp. Forums are very familiar to people and still used by a lot of "I don't do social media" types. At the risk of making a sweeping generalization, if you have an older target audience they will be happy with a forum. If you have a younger target audience they will prefer the sequential post / react style of interacting, like Discord or Instagram.
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self hosted social media for families?
I liked Open Source Social Network (OSSN). https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/
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Selfhosted social media site with images and videos
open source social network might be something worth looking into.
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[hiring] Developers, SQL, React, Node.JS
Just throw up something like https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/. Why build it all from scratch?
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How likely are you to use a social network no one has heard of?
I have heard of OSSN, which is basically the same thing? Except from what I understand instead of it being one big social network, its like a skeleton to build your own community, which runs into the same issue (no users). Also, it's written in PHP (ew). I could be wrong about the function, I haven't personally delved into it. I think if I had to give an answer on whether or not I would use it, it would entirely depend on how specific of a topic and how active the network is. I think personally, there's really not anything I couldnt do in a discord channel that I could on some social media site, especially after learning how to write a few bots for whatever channel or group I want/am a part of. I can join a discord group for practically anything, and just have more options to do stuff, compared to something like facebook or reddit,.
- For the first time in its history, Facebook is in decline. Has the tech giant begun to crumble?
- Cost and hours to programa basic social network from scratch?
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Stats
Basic OSSN repo stats
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1,138
8.6
about 2 months ago
opensource-socialnetwork/opensource-socialnetwork is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
OSSN is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of OSSN is PHP.
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