GNU social – social communication software used in federated social networks

GNU social is a free social networking platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short status updates, do polls, announce events, or other social activities (and you can add more!). Users can choose which people to “follow” and receive only their friends’ or colleagues’ status messages.

It provides a similar service to proprietary social network sites.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Status messages can be sent to mobile phones, instant messenger programs (using XMPP), and specially-designed desktop clients that support the Twitter API.
• Supports open standards (such as OStatus and ActivityPub that lets users in different networks follow each other. It enables a distributed social network spread all across the Web.
• RemoteFollow: Remote follow ActivityPub and OStatus remote actors via the click of a button.
• ActorLists: Allow to create collections of Actors and to interact with them – supports both OStatus and ActivityPub.
• The Free Network: Automagically migrate internal remote profiles between Free Network protocols.

Website: gnusocial.rocks
Support:
Developer: Diogo Cordeiro, Alexei Sorokin, Bruno Casteleiro, and many other contributors
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

GNU social is written in PHP. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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