Social Networking

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Top 14 Social Networking Open-Source Projects

  • Mastodon

    Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

    • Project mention: Alt Text box can't fit one screenshot of text | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-21

    Interestingly there is some discussion for Mastodon with people asking the limit to be smaller, which raises the question as to the purpose of alt text, and how to properly handle larger text lengths in screen reader programs.

    https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12268

  • Discourse

    A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

    • Project mention: Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-01

    > Tell me another platform that is free, has realtime chat, voice and video, has stable service, allows sharing images and other media, with good ownership management... and is open source.

    Mattermost: https://mattermost.com/

    Rocket.Chat: https://www.rocket.chat/

    Nextcloud Talk: https://nextcloud.com/talk/

    Self hosting and some assembly required. I've run all of them on cheap VPSes to explore a Slack/Discord replacement, neither was mindblowing but all of them seemed okay (Nextcloud's offering was rather barebones, though).

    Audio and video support varies because getting those right is challenging, at best you'd just integrate with something like Jitsi, that one's actually pretty good for meetings and such: https://jitsi.org/ and has a cloud version too: https://meet.jit.si/ (yet people still go for Zoom and it's odd UI/UX choices)

    I actually rather liked forums back in the day, but I guess nobody will be setting up that many phpBB instances in the current year, though projects like Discourse also seem promising: https://www.discourse.org/

    I don't think many people at all will be leaving Discord, due to how entrenched the platform is (network effect): if you want people to help you with what you're working on, you go where they are, not vice versa.

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  • diaspora*

    A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.

    • Project mention: Diaspora is a decentralized, federated alternative to Facebook that anyone can join and contribute to | /r/InnerNet | 2023-12-07

  • HumHub

    HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.

    • Project mention: List of your reverse proxied services | /r/selfhosted | 2023-12-05

    Humhub for local Facebook.

  • Mailboxer

    A Rails gem to send messages inside a web application

  • Forem

    The best Rails 3 and Rails 4 forum engine. Ever. (by rubysherpas)

  • Thredded

    The best Rails forums engine ever.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • pH7-Social-Dating-CMS

    😻 pH7Builder (formerly pH7CMS) is a Professional & Open Source Social Dating CMS written in PHP 8 🚀 This Social Dating Script aims to be low resource-intensive, powerful and secure. pH7Builder includes over 40 modules. It is the first Professional, Free & Open Source Social Dating Site Builder Software and the first choice for enterprise level Da

  • Social Share Button

    Helper for add social share feature in your Rails app. Twitter, Facebook, Weibo, Douban ...

  • Anahita

    Anahita is a platform and framework for developing open science and knowledge sharing applications on a social networking foundation.

  • Social Shares

    Check how many times url was shared in social networks, e.g. share counts

  • Denshobato

    Private messaging between models

  • bogbook

    bogbook v3 - A replicated and secure social network made from ed25519 hash chains

  • Fontify

    A browser extension to add font support to social network posts.

    • Project mention: Stylize your Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn posts | /r/javascript | 2023-05-17

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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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What are some of the best open-source Social Networking projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 Mastodon 45,916
2 Discourse 40,478
3 diaspora* 13,344
4 HumHub 6,211
5 Mailboxer 1,641
6 Forem 1,554
7 Thredded 1,545
8 pH7-Social-Dating-CMS 935
9 Social Share Button 580
10 Anahita 430
11 Social Shares 329
12 Denshobato 38
13 bogbook 9
14 Fontify 7

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