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Comparison of Distributed Social Network Applications
This is a list comparing a number of distributed social network applications.
| Project Name | Features | License | Protocols | Privacy Support | Federation (with other applications or services) | Version/Maturity |
| 6d | Blog, media library, addressbook, themeable, private messaging | MIT | HTTP + REST | Addressbook to send posts to either individuals or groups. | not yet | alpha |
| Ampify | Trust-based search, | Public Domain | HTTPS, Ampify Messaging Protocol | Yes. Provides fine grained privacy control through object capability security and transport layer encryption. | Yes. Provides an application framework similar to Google App Engine. And a web-hook style sensor network for easy integration with other platforms. | development |
| Appleseed | User: Photos, Journals(+RSS), Messaging, Groups, Privacy controls, Friend "Circles", Status Updates, Newsfeeds Internal: Component-based MVC, i18n, Theming. Admin: Node Control, Access Control, One-Click Upgrades | GPLv2 | QuickSocial[1] | Yes, friend circles used to categorize friends and restrict/allow access | Internally, others easily added (plugin architecture) | beta, in use |
| buddycloud | location, messaging, photo/video sharing | Apache2.0 | XMPP OStatus |
Yes | in development? | |
| Crabgrass | focus on collaboration within and between groups. Wikis, task lists, asset management, photo galleries, decision making. Primary emphasis is on privacy. | AGPLv3 | none? | Simple permissions | no | active use |
| Diaspora | microblogging photo sharing 'aspects'- friend management |
AGPL3.0 | Roadmap | Roadmap: 'Near Future': 'Services Integration' | pre-alpha | |
| Duuit! | search engine, microblogging, status, email, photos, videos, blogs, webpages, XMPP chat, video chat, collaborative drawing, office document, presentation and spreadsheet creation and editing, feed reader, profiles, files, games, gifts, groups, mood, privacy controls, customizable interface, opensimulator 3d environment (alpha testers only) | GPLv2 | FOAF, XMPP, opensocial, OAuth push/pull, OStatus (next release), scrobbling, RSS/Atom, opendd, PubSubHubbub, email, and irc | excellent, acl, granular, profile, avatar, content | XMPP, OStatus in testing- due in next release | beta, in use |
| Friend2Friend | Strong encryption, XML for all data exchange, Data is digitally signed | LGPL | Connect to known individuals. | alpha | ||
| Friendika | Rich profiles, networking groups (similar to Diaspora aspects), community/group/celebrity pages, richtext status (not specifically length limited), photo albums, youtube share, location, like/dislike, multiple profiles w/assignment to specific friends, single sign on to post directly to friend's profiles on co-operating systems. Communications encryption. Fans and one-way relationships. Local and global directory services. Ability to restrict connection endpoints for corporate and EDU (primarily k-12) or other environments requiring extreme privacy. | BSD | OStatus (Webfinger/lrdd, Atom, activitystrea.ms, salmon, PubSubHubbub), OpenID, dfrn, rino | yes - extensive | yes | stable/production |
| GNU Social | AGPLv3 | OStatus | yes | |||
| Jappix | XMPP client + Microblogging | AGPL | XMPP | excellent: based on presence authorizations | production | |
| Knowee | OpenID Signup Activity Stream import and export Contact import from Web 2.0 services via XFN and FOAF Automatically updated address book from remote data sources Consolidated profile with RDF/FOAF export Personal SPARQL API |
W3C | OpenID, FOAF | alpha | ||
| Kopal | OpenID Core, Multiple profiles | MIT | OpenID Kopal Feed Kopal Connect |
alpha | ||
| Lorea | Profiles, microblogging, streams, groups, plugins, group mailing lists, tasks, calendar, subgroups, tagclouds | GPL | OpenID, activitystrea.ms, PubSubHubbub, FOAF+ssl working on: OStatus (60% production), XMPP/psyc (50% development), rdf+sparql (10% development) |
excellent | production | |
| Movim | XMPP client + Microblogging | AGPLv3 | XMPP | development | ||
| Mr. Privacy | SMTP IMAP |
yes | yes | |||
| Noosfero | Social Networking (tree entities: persons, communities and organizations) CMS: folders, articles, RSS, image and file upload. Blog and commentary notifications. e-Portfolio (individuals & groups) Sharing Interests Thematic Discussion Events Agenda Services and Products Display Window tagging, blocks(“widgets”), RSS import, categories, adding custom themes, news portal |
AGPLv3 | Privacy support: Users can put their profiles (or communities) as private and them only their friends (or members) can see it | under consideration? | active use | |
| ObjectCloud | customization, flexible hosting, security, application platform | SimPL 2.0 | OpenID, Particle | yes | Alpha, active development | |
| OneSocialWeb | Microblogging | Apache2 | XMPP XMPP extensions[2] |
yes | yes | Active developer community, features being added... |
| OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS) | Profile Management, Blogs, Wikis, Address Books, Calendars, Feed Aggregation, Discussion Forums (includes NNTP support), File Servers (WebDAV based Briefcase). | Dual (Comercial and GPL for Open Source Edition) | WebID Protocol, Webfinger, OpenID, OAuth, HTTP, SPARQL, Atom Publishing, PubSubHubbub, Semantic Pingback, OpenSocial, Social Graph API, Portable Contacts. | WebID | Yes | Active use |
| OpenMicroBlogger | User-toggleable "apps" to add/remove functionality. RSSCloud and partial OStatus (PubSubHubbub) federation as well as Open Microblogging 0.1. Local follow/unfollow. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr integration. (partial) Twitter API support. Fully Restful design, user interface consumes Rest API. | MIT | Open Microblogging 0.1, RSSCloud, (partial) OStatus (PubSubHubbub) | yes | yes | alpha |
| ownCloud | Cloudstorage and plugins for Photos, Media, RSS and more | AGPLv3 | WebDAV, Open Collaboration Services | yes | ver. 1.0 | |
| Project Danube | 1) Sharing personal data with companies/organizations 2) Sharing personal data with "friends" 3) Use of personal data for "personal applications" |
TBD, likely Eclipse or Apache | OStatus, OAuth 2.0, Webfinger, hCard, Portable Contacts, XRI, XDI, PubSubHubbub, Salmon | yes (StatusNet and Cliqset, among others) | development | |
| Project Nori | OStatus, OAuth, Portable Contacts, Webfinger, and other open protocols | yes | early alpha | |||
| psyced | profiles chat microblogging |
GPLver2 MIT |
PSYC, Jabber™/XMPP, IRC, TELNET, HTTP, Applet, SMTP, WAP, XML, RSS | |||
| RSSN | private messaging groups |
RSSN | concept | |||
| SMOB | Microblogging | FOAF | no | production | ||
| Socialriver | GPL AGPL |
OStatus, OpenID will add support for OAuth |
Private Messaging Privacy Controls |
yes | ||
| Socknet Provider- FoolishMortal.org | profiles, messaging, enables internet content sharing | Socknet, OpenID | no | yes | Beta | |
| StatusNet | microblogging | AGPLv3 | OStatus OpenID FOAF |
available for sites, planned for accounts and posts | Yes | 0.9 (Active use) |
| Thimbl | microblogging | Finger, SSH | planned for future | development | ||
| Weestit | XMPP HTTP OStatus SMTP POP |
yes | planned | alpha planned Nov.20 2010 |
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