A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Profiles and a stream where each post is shared with chosen groups of contacts, across federated pods.
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Social network with profiles, friends, groups, pages and a news feed. A closed product from Meta.
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| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| diaspora* | Partial | 14k | AGPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | Ruby | v0.9.1.0 | 2026-07-28 |
| HumHub | Partial | 6.8k | Other | Open source | Yes | PHP | v1.18.6 | 2026-10-06 |
| Elgg | Partial | 1.7k | Other | Open source | Yes | PHP | 7.1.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| Bonfire | Partial | 942 | None detected | Open source | Yes | Elixir | v1.0.7 | 2026-10-05 |
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HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.
Spaces, profiles and an activity stream for an organisation or community, extended with modules.
A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL
A framework for building a social network with profiles, groups, blogs and an activity stream.
Bonfire - tend to your digital life in community. Customise and host your own online space and control your experience at the most granular level.
Profiles, posts and groups with fine-grained control over who sees what, federated over ActivityPub.
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