Open Source Social Networking Software

Social Networking software provides platforms for hosting decentralized communities and aggregating content feeds. These tools enable users to share posts and media across federated servers using protocols like ActivityPub. This type of software is for individuals and organizations that want to manage their own social interactions and news streams. By self-hosting these apps, you avoid reliance on centralized corporate platforms for your social graphs and activity logs. These tools ensure that your community discussions and feed subscriptions remain under your own administration.

This page lists 32 open source tools in the Social Networking category. The most popular are Mastodon, RSSHub and Glance. Most use the AGPL-3.0 or MIT license, and 27 offer an official Docker image.

• Decentralized Social Networks17
• News Aggregators16