What are the open source alternatives for Facebook?

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ablimit picture ablimit · May 16, 2011 · Viewed 19.8k times · Source

Just want to look at how things are implemented for learning purpose and may even contribute something along the way. So is there any open source facebook clones out there ?

Thanks

Answer

Bas Bossink picture Bas Bossink · May 16, 2011

Searching gives

  1. Diaspora
  2. OneSocialWeb

as starting points, a list of active distributed social media sites can be found here

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