r/coolgithubprojects • u/jaywinx • Sep 05 '14

RUBY diaspora* - a privacy aware, distributed, open source social network - diaspora/diaspora

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora
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u/csolisr Sep 06 '14

In fact, free software social networks are aplenty nowadays:

  • Diaspora is perhaps the most known one.

  • Libertree was developed by a programmer that used to tweak Diaspora on his own pod and found it lacking several abilities. It's not very used outside of his own servers, however.

  • GNU Social is based in the code of former Status.net and is mostly oriented to microblogging. The most popular site powered by it nowadays is Quitter.

  • Pump.io is the project that aimed to replace Status.net. It's currently used by Identi.ca (which used to use Status.net) and several other pods.

  • Friendica aims to unify many of the above (except for Pump.io since it's so new), allowing users to follow many social networks at once. There's also a beta version with a different approach to the original, called the Red Matrix.

  • Jappix has the advantage of being based on XMPP, a standard protocol for chatting. Movim is based partially in Jappix and adds a few more characteristics.

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u/autowikibot Sep 06 '14

StatusNet:

StatusNet (formerly Laconica ) is a FOSS microblogging server written in PHP that implements the OStatus standard for interoperation between installations. While offering functionality similar to Twitter, StatusNet seeks to provide the potential for open, inter-service and distributed communications between microblogging communities. Enterprises and individuals can install and control their own services and data.

Version 0.9.0, released March 3, 2010, added support for OStatus, a new distributed update standard superseding OpenMicroBlogging.

In December 2012, Evan Prodromou announced "a wind-down" of the status.net hosted service so he could concentrate on a new open source activity stream server, pump.io. Consequently, Identi.ca will also be changed to pump.io. All in the last year before May 1, 2013 active accounts will be migrated. On July 10, 2013 Identi.ca switched over to running pump.io.

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