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Friendica is a free and open-source software decentralized social network. With Friendica you can host your own server with a unique domain while being part of the Friendica fediverse of federated services. You can also join one of the already hosted and managed servers as with any other social network. The main difference with Friendica and more common social networks like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram is the distributed nature of the software and it's use built-in support for ActivityPub. Allowing you not only to connect to a plethora of Friendica servers but also connect with other ActivityPub-protocol powered social networks like Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed and GNU Social.

With JomSocial you can quickly setup a social network for your Joomla-powered website. The extension is built to be friendly to both developers and regular Joomla users. Features you have come to expect from a social network such as activity streams, comments, featured posts, hashtags, mentions, video shares, photo shares, location shares, moods, polls and more, is all included in the JomSocial extension for Joomla. Currently over 180,000 communities globally use JomSocial to power their social network.

A flexible WordPress plugin for building online communities, teams, and groups with WordPress-powered sites.

MemberPress is a premium WordPress plugin that allows you to instantly start charging your users for access to your content. The MemberPress plugin integrates with the most common payment provides and third-party services.

HumHub is a free and open-source social network software and framework built to give you the tools to make communication and collaboration easy and successful. HumHub is designed to be lightweight, powerful and comes with an user-friendly interface that is easy to use both for users of the social network and administrators.

SocialEngine is an award winner for Best Social Network Software, and a leading online community software to power social media websites. With SocialEngine you can easily build or create your own social network

Movim is a distributed social platform, with web client and mobile apps, that protects your privacy, comes with a set of awesome features and uses the industry-standard XMPP protocol.

GNU social connects you to a free network of thousands of communities that discuss daily on a variety of topics, each being part of the whole. GNU social supports both single-user and community modes and can be used in an intranet environment or as part of the wider open network. The free and open source microblogging server is written in PHP and built on-top of the OStatus standard for inter-operation between installations.

A free and ethical photo sharing platform, powered by ActivityPub federation protocol. Pixelfed is open-sourced software licensed under the AGPL license.

Gab is a free social network that champions free speech, individual liberty and the free flow of information online. All thoughts and ideas are welcome at Gab.