Self-hosted projects tagged “Social Network”

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

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Threads+7

Open-source social media scheduling tool with analytics, team collaboration, automation API, and AI-assisted content creation for multi-channel publishing.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Buffer+14

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

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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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.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+6

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

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Misskey+6

Open-source RSS reader with real-time feed updates, training-based filtering, full-text search, social sharing, and native mobile apps; available hosted or self-hosted.

MITActively maintained

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Feedly+13

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

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Instagram+7

Open-source intranet and enterprise social network for communication, collaboration, and knowledge sharing with a modular, extensible design.

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Microsoft Yammer+13

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

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Ride with GPS+2

Open-source, self-hosted social media manager for scheduling, publishing, analytics and team workflows; deploy via Docker or as a Laravel package.

MITActively maintained

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Hootsuite+13

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

Peergos is a peer-to-peer encrypted file storage and private social platform with fine-grained access control, capability links, and a web UI for secure sharing.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Proton Drive+12

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.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Element Matrix (Hosted)+15

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

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+8

Elgg is a modular open source platform for building social networks and collaborative communities with plugin-based extensions.

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Facebook+12

Open source link-in-bio platform for creating a single landing page of links, with social features like a feed, discovery, questions, and likes.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Campsite.bio+1

Socioboard is an open-source social media management platform for publishing, scheduling, team collaboration, RSS content curation, and analytics/reporting across multiple networks.

Actively maintained

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Hootsuite+11

Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is PHP-based social networking software to build your own community site with profiles, newsfeed, groups, chat, photos, and admin tools.

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Threads+1

Open-source publishing platform enabling multi-user blogs, status updates, and media on your own site.

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WordPress.com+9

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

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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BookWyrm+7

Self-hosted web app to catalog and track personal books with lists, reading progress, ratings, notes, OpenLibrary search, Mastodon sharing, and CSV/JSON export.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Goodreads+7

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

MITActively maintained

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Pinboard+10

Headless federated microblogging server for single users that implements ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible REST APIs for use with Mastodon clients.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+5

Federated, open-source short-video platform for communities and creators with ActivityPub federation, API access, and creator-focused features.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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PeerTube+1

Mbin is a federated content aggregator offering voting, discussion and microblogging via ActivityPub. A community-focused fork of kbin, built with PHP and Symfony.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Reddit+19

HabitSync is a self-hosted PWA habit tracker offering goals, challenges, social sharing, OIDC SSO, Apprise notifications, API-first design, and a mobile app.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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Habitica+9

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

BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin that adds member profiles, activity streams, groups, messaging, and extensibility to build community and social networking sites.

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Reddit+4

Open-source PHP script to launch a self-hosted video sharing site with playlists, collections, and social features.

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YouTube+10

A self-hosted web app for couples to upload photos/videos, create galleries, track moments on a timeline, set countdowns, playlists, and receive event notifications.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Tinybeans+14