Self-hosted projects tagged “Federation”

Mastodon is an open-source, ActivityPub-compatible social network server for microblogging, offering federated timelines, moderation tools, media support, and APIs.

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Threads+7

Rocket.Chat is an open-source communications platform for secure team messaging, channels, DMs, voice/video, integrations, and customer omnichannel support.

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Rocket.Chat Cloud+19

PeerTube is a decentralized, ActivityPub-federated video hosting platform with live streaming, P2P WebRTC delivery, and customizable community-run instances.

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YouTube+8

Lemmy is a federated, self-hostable link aggregator and forum platform for creating Reddit-like communities with voting, comments, moderation tools, and ActivityPub feder...

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Reddit+3

Open-source federated social network built around independently run pods, privacy via Aspects, and standard social features; implemented in Ruby on Rails.

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+6

Element is a Matrix client for secure team messaging and collaboration, offering end-to-end encrypted chats and calls with interoperability across the Matrix network.

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Element Matrix (Hosted)+19

Misskey is an open-source federated microblogging platform using ActivityPub, enabling communities to run their own social server and interact across the fediverse.

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Misskey+6

Owncast is a self-hosted live streaming server that supports RTMP ingest, HLS playback, and built-in web chat, with optional Fediverse (ActivityPub) integration.

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YouTube+12

Open-source, decentralized messaging network built on a Haskell core with Kotlin Multiplatform and native iOS clients; end-to-end encrypted messaging without user IDs.

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Signal+11

Pixelfed is a free, open-source, ActivityPub-based photo sharing social network that federates with the Fediverse for decentralized social media.

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Instagram+7

WriteFreely is a clean, Markdown-based publishing platform for creating minimalist blogs and communities, with ActivityPub federation and low-resource Go deployment.

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Micro.blog+10

Synapse is a Matrix homeserver implementation for running federated, secure real-time chat and collaboration on your own infrastructure.

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Element Matrix (Hosted)+19

Self-hosted trail catalog to plan routes, upload GPX/GPS tracks, add metadata, and search, filter, and share trails with optional federation.

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Ride with GPS+2

BookWyrm is a federated social network to track reading, write reviews, share quotes, and discover books with communities via ActivityPub federation.

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Goodreads+5

Movim is a federated social platform and web-based XMPP client for blogging, chat, communities, and real-time messaging with a responsive cross‑platform interface.

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Element Matrix (Hosted)+15

Ech0 is a lightweight open-source, self-hosted federated publishing platform (ActivityPub) with a Vue-based UI, SQLite storage, Docker deployment and built-in Markdown ed...

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Micro.blog+13

Manyfold is a self-hosted web app to organize, preview, and share 3D models for 3D printing, with tagging, metadata, and disk reorganization tools.

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Thingiverse+8

Friendica is a decentralized, federated social network server that connects to the Fediverse, offering posts, profiles, events, photos, and strong privacy controls.

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+8

Self-hosted, lightweight federated messenger with end-to-end encrypted threads and optional WebRTC audio/video calling across independently hosted nodes.

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Signal+19

Open-source AI camera monitoring that routes camera streams through a relay/node proxy and broadcasts frames to federated AI workers for detections, summaries, and alerts...

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Blue Iris+10

Self-hosted, federated catalog and social tracker for books, movies, TV, music, podcasts, games, and performances with ratings, reviews, lists, and ActivityPub.

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BookWyrm+7

Postmarks is a self-hosted, single-user bookmark manager that publishes and federates bookmarks over ActivityPub with Mastodon-compatible platforms.

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Pinboard+10

A Rust-based reverse proxy that aggregates multiple Jellyfin servers into a single unified interface with unified libraries, direct playback, and user mapping.

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Plex+2

Self-hosted, open-source XMPP-based messaging server providing end-to-end encryption, multi-device sync, federation, secure backups, and integrated WebRTC audio/video cal...

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WhatsApp+17

A TypeScript Node.js crossposter that synchronizes Twitter tweets to Mastodon and Bluesky; distributed as a Docker image. Project is archived.

Open-source web shop for food coops and local shops; supports delivery rhythms, manufacturer admin areas, cashless bank-transfer payments, inventory and sync

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Local Line+7

A small Debian-based server system for self-hosting email, chat, VoIP, wikis, blogs, social networks and other community services on modest hardware.

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YunoHost+5

Yarn.social is a decentralized, self-hosted social network based on the Twtxt format, offering privacy-first microblogging with web and CLI clients and a pod-based model.

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Micro.blog+6

Salut à Toi (SàT) is a self-hostable, XMPP-based communication suite with web, desktop, and CLI frontends, supporting chat and collaborative features via plugins.

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Element Matrix (Hosted)+13

Gancio is a self-hosted shared agenda for local communities, with anonymous event publishing, RSS/ICS exports, embeddable listings, and ActivityPub federation.

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Meetup+19