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A curated list of fediverse software that offer decentralized social networking services based on the W3C ActivityPub family of related protocols. See also πŸ’Ž delightful fediverse development.

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Β  ⏱️ planning ActivityPub support or have open feature requests. Β  βš—οΈ indicates fediverse innovation areas, are not marked unmaintained. Β  πŸ€ looking to be rescued or forked by new maintainer custodians. Β  πŸ‘» unmaintained and inactive for over a year. Will you revitalize them?

Contents

Social web joyful creation

The free and commons-based fediverse grows organically, like a beautiful garden. Social web technologies can only emerge and evolve by commons participation, crafted by many people with love and the joy of coding, while exploring realms of creation.

Joyful creation is where fediverse allows us to ✨ social code the social code.

Social coding

Coding is social and involves communication between countless people to meet their needs. Social coding is where social networking supports the free software development process.

ForgeFed based federation

ForgeFed is an open standard for code collaboration across federated code forges, and offers a foundation to bring more of the development process and tool stack to the social web.

Social coding planned

Social coding unmaintained

Personal social networking

Social experience is uniquely personal, social networking starts with us. A social web supportive of real people allows us to roam freely, to express ourselves, and be with whom we want to be. From global public square to intimite inter-personal relationships, our fediverse must support whom we actually want to be, in connection with those around us.

Personal social networking is where πŸ’ͺ people are in control and free to live their daily life.

Social profiles

Be free. Be who you want to be. Proudly show your identities. Manage rich, fun, and self-sovereign profiles for every fediverse experience.

Social verifiable credentials

We all deserve to be recognized for who we are and what we do. Get attribution for our work and acknowledgment for our skills and human traits. Social verifiable credentials makes strides towards open recognition of all the splendid individuals that make a fediverse thrive.

Personal social networking unmaintained

Content management

Small is beautiful. Embrace the small web, create and host your own websites. Enrich them with social capabilities. Let's make the web weird again.

Content management unmaintained

Blogging

Speak freely, outline your thoughts, give your opinion, inform others. Create individual and collective blogs and articles and publish them to the web. Connected to the fediverse we can rediscover the beauty in words and sharing of rich information. Blogging is both social and interactive, and affects our soul and our mind. Our fediverse culture.

Blogging planned

Blogging unmaintained

Social networking apps & services

Delightful applications and services with integrated social networking capabilities.

Open science

Open science forms the pillar for mankind to invent a better world, and a society worth living in. Or so it should be, if academia weren't held captive or willing prisoner to commercial interests. Fediverse opens new grazing grounds for scientists, engineers, or anyone for that matter to πŸ”¬ uncover wisdom and insights collectively.

🌱 grow commons. Want to help free academia from corporate enshittification? The πŸ’Ž delightful open science curated list needs a true gardener that brings it to open science standards.

Knowledge management

Capture, enrich, organize, share, and utilize knowledge and disseminate information out into the fediverse, to be picked up and processed by countless fedizens, agents and services.

Wiki software

Where Wikipedia led the way by collecting commons curated information, there is so much than encyclopedic knowledge. Fediverse has potention not only to decentralize knowledge gathering and curation, but create rich social knowledge fabrics, where personal knowledge gardens extend seamlessly into community ones, and on to the vast forest of global information.

Open data

Open data source supply data streams that are openly accessible, exploitable, editable and shareable by anyone for any purpose.

Semantic web

The "Web of Meaning" was envisioned by Sir Tim Berners Lee as a way to turn the semantics of concepts and relationships into machine readable format, so that our tools and technology would be better capable of serving our needs. ActivityPub is an open standard based on Linked Data and may help revive the vision of the Semantic web.

Knowledge management planned

Knowledge management unmaintained

Crowdfunding

fediverse provides the grassroots commons great opportunity to find new ways to sustain itself. All the beautiful initiatives, made by hard and mostly volunteer work. Fediverse can make it visible, discoverable, outline the needs, and help others πŸͺ™πŸͺ™ support our commons financially.

🌱 grow commons. Passion for sustainable FOSS? Curate πŸ’Ž delightful funding so we may catch up with its huge backlog. Or help restyle the format to what you see here.

Micro donations

Direct charitable usually small contributions given person to person, or to groups and communities.

Geosocial networking

Social networks with geographic services and capabilities like geotagging or location-planning.

Geosocial networking planned

Geosocial networking unmaintained

Online marketplaces

Questions and answers

Federated Q&A systems allow fedizens to form communities around particular topics of interest and learn from each other.

Discussion forums

Bulletin boards, message boards and forum software where people can hold conversations and form communities on topics of their interest.

Discussion forums planned

Discussion forums unmaintained

Events planning

Platforms to organize in-person and virtual activities, gatherings, and events for people and communities of similar interests, hobbies, and professions.

Events planning planned

Events planning unmaintained

Alternative social media platforms

Delightful alternatives to the Big Tech corporate media platforms that erode our society.

Social media hubs

Server platforms that offer multiple social networking services in an integrated experience.

Misskey forks

Social media hubs planned

Social media hubs unmaintained

Social bookmarking

Federated link aggregators and link-sharing.

Social bookmarking planned

Social bookmarking unmaintained

Social cataloging

Curate and share catalogs and interact with others based upon shared items.

Social cataloging unmaintained

Live streaming

Dodge the dodgy AI infested corporate streaming services and zoom out, as on the fediverse we own the stream. Here are platforms that offer streaming of video or audio in real time or near real time, with live chat and other social capabilities.

On the fediverse our πŸ’œ lifestreams meet people and humanity and we engage our favorite fedi crowds. Fedi is where outreach matters.

Live streaming planned

Live streaming unmaintained

Media sharing

Online platforms that allow people to upload, convert, store, and play back media content, such as images videos, podcasts, and bring them to audiences on the fediverse for social interaction.

Media sharing planned

Media sharing unmaintained

Microblogging

Send status updates in the form of short messages that contain images and links and exchange them with others on the social graph. Mastodon is among the pioneers and flagship project that gave rise to the fediverse, and the microblogging domain has the broadest adoption.

Groups following

Follow or join groups to be informed on particular themes and interact with specific audiences.

Mastodon forks

Microblogging unmaintained

Social web infrastructure

Fundamental building blocks to support fedi's solid groundwork and help weave our social fabric.

[TODO] Phase 2: Transfer selected project from delightful-activitypub-development.

Social media bridges

Multi-protocol bridges

RSS bridges

ActivityPub relay servers

ActivityPub transport agents

A transport agent sits between client and server, and merely stores and forwards content.

Fediverse hosting providers

Check these other curated list and find delightful hosting providers that offer fediverse apps & services, and sustainable VPS infrastructure providers.

πŸ’Ž delightful libre hosters

πŸ’Ž delightful off grid open tech

πŸ’Ž delightful sustainable VPS

Fediversity

A diversity of various applications that help enrich the Fediverse social experience.

Fediverse games

What is more delightful than playing games directly between the people in your social graph. Gaming ON the fediverse. An area that is wide open for discovery and epxloration. Be inspired on what is possible by looking at Spritely Fantasary, a planned project by Christine-Lemmer Webber, co-author of the W3C ActivityPub standard.

Fediverse games planned

Fediverse games unmaintained

Metaverses

Immersive 3D virtual reality worlds, where you walk spaces and meet people's chosen avatars, to have fun and interact. Here too are fediverse projects, pioneering this new field. Creating metaverses that are for everyone.

Commons gardening

πŸ€ This curated list is carefully gardened by volunteers working in spare time. We are working in commons and so can you. Help make this list better, and become a Gardener of the fediverse.

If you have questions or feedback regarding this list, then please create an Issue in our tracker, and optionally @mention one or more of our maintainers:

Contributors

We are proud to introduce you to some of our delightful gardeners. Thank you for your kind contributions. Gardening, and not on this list? Please add yourself if you are missing.

Special thanks goes to NLnet who supported the revival and repositioning of this list, when maintenance burdens and lack of volunteer time saw it ever more lagging behind.

License

CC0 Public domain. This work is free of known copyright restrictions. Β  This delightful commons list evolves under Social coding commons.