Open Source Communication Software
Pleroma
Pleroma is a free and open source, federated, social networking server built on open protocols. It consists of several openly developed components, including the Pleroma server and the default Pleroma frontend. Since Pleroma is built for the fediverse it is compatible with other socially federated networks such as GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub implementations.
Irssi
Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX-based operating systems. Irssi comes with IRC built-in and is multi-protocol friendly for module authors, it also support integration with SILC and ICB protocols via plugins. The application easily integrates with your window manager, your terminal emulator, your remote connection, your terminal multiplexer, your IRC bouncer and your IRC adapter. Allowing you to use Irssi virtually everywher throughout your system. Irssi is free software licensed under the GPLv2, available for macOS, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Cygwin.
reddit
Reddit is a social news aggregation network and community. On reddit people can share and discuss web content in user created communities called subreddits. Each subreddit rally around specific topics where only related content can be shared, and rated. The web content that can be shared or reddit includes links, text posts, and images which can all be upvoted or downvoted.
Thunderbird
A free an open-source email client developed openly by the Mozilla Foundation and the community. Thunderbird is easy to setup and customize and supports POP and IMAP. The email client comes with all features needed to search, filter, write and manage emails, but also have builtin support for live chat between contact and RSS/Atom feed reader.
Docsify
Docsify is an all-in-one mail tracker for Gmail that includes email, link, and attachment tracking. Docsify can help you increase your productivity when using Gmail as it helps you create and use your own emtail templates and schedule emails.
Ning
With Ning you can create your own social network specifically geared towards a topic or community. You don’t have to be a developer to start building with Ning, their drag-and-drop network builder empowers you to easily create a professional website and social network in a matter of minutes. You can also customize your network with HTML and CSS and make it your own. Through solid integrations with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google, user registrations becomes as simple as clicking a button. To-date, Ning has been used by over 2 million people and organizations to create immersive social networks and communities.
Mattermost
Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable enterprise team collaboration and messaging application. The software can be deployed to on-premis or to cloud instances. Mattermost is designed for internal use within organizations and businesses in financial services, government, healthcare, remote work, and enterprise DevOps, where teams use Mattermost to power collaboration at every stage of the DevOps lifecycle.
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