Open Source Linux Social Networking Software
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View 16 business solutionsBrowse free open source Social Networking software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Social Networking software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Sherlock
Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400+ social networks. -
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Admidio
Manage your organization online
Admidio is a free open source user management system for websites of organizations and groups. The system has a flexible role model so that it’s possible to reflect the structure and permissions of your organization. You can create an individual profile for your members by adding or removing fields. Additional to these functions the system contains several modules like member lists, event manager, guestbook, photo album or download area. -
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Postiz
The ultimate social media scheduling tool, with a bunch of AI
Postiz offers everything you need to manage your social media posts, build an audience, capture leads, and grow your business. Streamlined content creation and scheduling for consistent personal brand growth. Expand brand reach and boost marketing impact with tailored post-scheduling. Easily manage multiple client accounts for increased productivity and better results. Schedule, analyze, and engage with your audience. Cross-post your social media posts into multiple channels. Improve your content creation process with an AI agent that performs all tasks for you. Use a Canva-like tool to create stunning visuals for your social media posts and generate pictures with AI. Manage your social media channels with ease. Collaborate with your team and delegate tasks. Expose your brand to a wider audience by connecting with influencers and brands. Learn from your data and improve your social media strategy. Track your performance and optimize your content. -
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Mastodon social network
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Your home feed should be filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see. Radically different social media, back in the hands of the people. You know best what you want to see on your home feed. No algorithms or ads to waste your time. Follow anyone across any Mastodon server from a single account and receive their posts in chronological order, and make your corner of the internet a little more like you. Mastodon provides you with a unique possibility of managing your audience without middlemen. Mastodon deployed on your own infrastructure allows you to follow and be followed from any other Mastodon server online and is under no one's control but yours. Mastodon puts decision making back in your hands. Each server creates their own rules and regulations, which are enforced locally and not top-down like corporate social media, making it the most flexible in responding to the needs of different groups of people. -
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Social-Analyzer
API, CLI, and Web App for analyzing and finding a person's profile
Social Analyzer is an open source OSINT tool that helps investigators discover and analyze a person’s presence across a very large number of social media platforms. It provides a unified API, CLI, and web interface capable of scanning hundreds or thousands of sites for username matches and related metadata. The project includes modular detection and analysis components that users can enable depending on their investigative needs. It is commonly used in cybersecurity, digital forensics, and reconnaissance workflows where identity correlation is required. Social Analyzer emphasizes flexibility, allowing integration into automated pipelines or manual investigations. Overall, the project functions as a powerful reconnaissance engine for mapping online identities at scale. -
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Nitter
Alternative Twitter front-end
Nitter is an open-source alternative frontend for Twitter designed to provide a privacy-focused and lightweight way to browse content without interacting directly with the official platform. It acts as a proxy between the user and Twitter, ensuring that requests are handled by the backend server rather than exposing the user’s IP address or browser fingerprint. The interface is intentionally minimalistic and removes elements such as advertisements, tracking scripts, and algorithmic timelines, presenting content in a chronological and distraction-free format. Users can view profiles, tweets, media, and replies without needing to log in, making it useful for anonymous browsing and content consumption. The system also supports RSS feeds and advanced search features, enabling integration with external tools and workflows. Because it avoids JavaScript and heavy frontend dependencies, Nitter delivers faster performance and lower bandwidth usage compared to the official platform. -
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NodeBB
Node.js based forum software built for the modern web
A better community platform for the modern web. NodeBB is next generation forum software. It's powerful, mobile-ready and easy to use. NodeBB Forum Software is powered by Node.js and supports either Redis, MongoDB, or a PostgreSQL database. It utilizes web sockets for instant interactions and real-time notifications. NodeBB has many modern features out of the box such as social network integration and streaming discussions, while still making sure to be compatible with older browsers. From brand communities to product support boards, forums are a great way to engage and provide value to your audience. At NodeBB, our mission is to provide forum software with all the modern features and performance you’ve come to expect from the social and mobile web. For the tech savvy DIY pro, install and maintain NodeBB on your own server. Want to get your forum going right away without any set-up hassles? Our monthly hosting plans are for you. -
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Tuba
Browse the Fediverse
Explore the federated social web with Tuba for GNOME. Stay connected to your favorite communities, family and friends with support for popular Fediverse platforms like Mastodon, GoToSocial, Akkoma & more. The Fediverse is a decentralized social network that consists of multiple interconnected platforms and communities, allowing users to communicate and share content across different networks and servers. It promotes user privacy and data ownership and offers an alternative to centralized social media platforms. -
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pH7 Social Dating CMS (pH7Builder)❤️
🚀 Professional Social Dating Web App Builder (formerly pH7CMS)
pH7Builder is a Professional, Free & Open Source PHP Social Dating Builder Software (primarily designed for developers ...). This Social Dating Web App is fully coded in object-oriented PHP (OOP) with the MVC pattern (Model-View-Controller). It is low resource-intensive, extremely powerful and highly secure. pH7Builder is included with over 42 native modules and is based on its homemade pH7 Framework which includes more than 52 packages To summarize, pH7Builder Social Dating Script gives you the perfect ingredients to create the best dating web app or social networking site on the World Wide Web! -- Get Involved! -- If you want to work on an Innovative Open Source Social/Dating Software Project with a Beautiful PHP Code using the latest PHP Features while collaborating with nice people and finally if you love the "Social" and "Dating" Services, ...you HAVE TO DO IT! - Fork the repo http://github.com/pH7Software/pH7-Social-Dating-CMS -
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LittleLink
A lightweight DIY alternative to services like Linktree
The DIY self-hosted LinkTree alternative. LittleLink has more than 60 branded button styles you can easily use, with more being added by our community all the time. LittleLink has more than 60 branded button styles you can use (with even more being added by our community). You'll also find a light and dark theme ready to go. Not a fan of the default colors? Update skeleton-light.css or skeleton-dark.css to the HEX values of your choosing. You can also set your CSS to skeleton-auto.css, which will use the system theme of the device you visit on. Using Skeleton let us build something that loads quickly & doesn't have any of the unnecessary bloat you would get from using a large framework for a page that requires nothing more than simplicity. LittleLink scored a 99/100 in performance when tested with Google Lighthouse. -
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Mstdn
Tiny web-based mastodon client for your desktop
Mstdn is a desktop application based on the mobile version of the Mastodon page and the Electron framework. It basically uses Mastodon's mobile page and provides various desktop application features (such as desktop notifications, keybindings, and multi-account support). -
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JGraphT is a free Java class library that provides mathematical graph-theory objects and algorithms. JGraphT supports a rich gallery of graphs and is designed to be powerful, extensible, and easy to use.
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DetectDee
Hunt down social media accounts by username, email or phone
DetectDee: Hunt down social media accounts by username, email or phone across social networks example. -
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Elk alpha
A nimble Mastodon web client
A nimble Mastodon web client. In order to host Elk yourself you can use the provided Dockerfile to build a container with Elk. Be aware, that Elk only loads properly if the connection is done via SSL/TLS. The Docker container itself does not provide any SSL/TLS handling. You'll have to add this bit yourself. One could put Elk behind popular reverse proxies with SSL Handling like Traefik, NGINX, etc. The provided Dockerfile creates a container that will eventually run Elk as a non-root user and create a persistent named Docker volume upon first start (if that volume does not yet exist). This volume is always created with root permission. Failing to change the permissions of /elk/data inside this volume to UID: GID 911 (as specified for Elk in the Dockerfile) will prevent Elk from storing its config for user accounts. You either have to fix the permission in the created named volume, or mount a directory with the correct permission to /elk/data into the container. -
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Masto.js
Universal Mastodon API client for JavaScript
Universal Mastodon API client for JavaScript. -
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Mastodon.py
Python wrapper for the Mastodon
Python wrapper for the Mastodon API. Feature complete for public API as of Mastodon version 3.5.5 and easy to get started with. -
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Mirror
#1 Open Source Unity Networking Library
Mirror is a high-level open-source networking library for Unity multiplayer games. It was originally based on UNET and has evolved into a stable, modular framework used by many production Unity projects. The library is designed to make multiplayer development easier by handling common networking patterns such as network identities, synchronization, remote procedure calls, authority, spawning, and transport integration. Mirror supports multiple low-level transports, making it adaptable to different game genres and deployment needs. It is suitable for small multiplayer games, cooperative games, competitive prototypes, and even larger persistent-world or MMORPG-style projects. The project is especially useful for Unity developers who want a mature networking layer without building protocol and synchronization systems from scratch. -
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Tweepy
Twitter for Python
An easy-to-use Python library for accessing the Twitter API. You can also use Git to clone the repository from GitHub to install the latest development version. The easiest way to install the latest version from PyPI is by using pip. Twitter requires all requests to use OAuth for authentication. The API class provides access to the entire twitter RESTful API methods. Each method can accept various parameters and return responses. When we invoke an API method most of the time returned back to us will be a Tweepy model class instance. This will contain the data returned from Twitter which we can then use inside our application. Models contain the data and some helper methods which we can then use. Tweepy supports both OAuth 1a (application-user) and OAuth 2 (application-only) authentication. Authentication is handled by the tweepy.AuthHandler class. -
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Whalebird
Single-column Fediverse client for desktop
Whalebird is a Fediverse client app for desktops. -
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GoToSocial
Fast, fun, small ActivityPub server
GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang. With GoToSocial, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles. All without being tracked or advertised to. It is already deployable and useable, and it federates cleanly with many other Fediverse servers (not yet all). However, many things are not yet implemented, and there are plenty of bugs! We left the alpha stage around September/October 2024, and we intend to exit beta sometime around 2026. GoToSocial provides a lightweight, customizable, and safety-focused entryway into the Fediverse, and is comparable to (but distinct from) existing projects such as Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, and PixelFed. If you've ever used something like Twitter or Tumblr (or even Myspace) GoToSocial will probably feel familiar to you: You can follow people and have followers, and you make posts that people can favorite and reply to, and share. -
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Laravel Befriended
Eloquent Befriended brings social media-like features
Eloquent Befriended brings social media-like features like following, blocking and filtering content based on following or blocked models. The power of example is better here. This package allows you simply to assign followers, blockings or likes without too much effort. What makes the package powerful is that you can filter queries using scopes out-of-the-box. -
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Mixpost
Self-hosted social media management software (Buffer alternative)
Mixpost it's the coolest Self-hosted social media management software. This package is the Lite version of Mixpost Pro. Mixpost is a robust and versatile social media management platform, designed to streamline social media operations and enhance content marketing strategies. Our platform empowers brands and businesses to effectively manage their online presence, leading them to success in the dynamic digital landscape. Mixpost's mission is to offer a comprehensive and powerful solution, enabling users to elevate their social media management and achieve tangible results. The platform allows users to craft, organize, and schedule their content for times when their audience is most engaged and active. Mixpost's user-friendly scheduling system ensures that content publishing is seamless and efficient. It also facilitates team collaboration by allowing users to assign tasks, manage permissions, and monitor team performance, optimizing team interactions and workflow. -
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PHP Address Book
Simple, web-based address & phone book
Simple, web-based address & phone book, contact manager, organizer. Groups, addresses, e-Mails, phone numbers & birthdays. vCards, LDIF, Excel, iPhone, Gmail & Google-Maps supported. PHP / MySQL based. -
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ActivityPub
ActivityPub for WordPress
Enter the fediverse with ActivityPub, broadcasting your blog to a wider audience! Attract followers, deliver updates, and receive comments from a diverse user base of ActivityPub-compliant platforms. With the ActivityPub plugin installed, your WordPress blog itself functions as a federated profile, along with profiles for each author. -
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Laravel Acquaintances
This package gives Eloquent models the ability to manage friendships
This package gives Eloquent models the ability to manage friendships (with groups), followships along with Likes, favorites..etc.
