delightful-fediverse-apps/non-fediverse-federated-social-apps.md

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This is a list of federated social clients and other related tools that use protocols other than those used in the fediverse (OStatus, ActivityPub, Diaspora, DFRN, Zot)

Blockchain

  • Afari (pre-alpha) - a mobile-based social network built on the BlockStack blockchain. Not yet in beta as of 2018/12/20.

  • Akasha (beta) - a web-based social network app that uses the Ethereum blockchain.

  • Leeroy (defunct) - a web-based social network app that used the Ethereum blockchain. Their website now directs users to Peepeth.

  • Minds - an unmoderated web-based social network app that uses the Ethereum blockchain.

  • Numaverse (defunct?) - a web-based social network app that uses the Ethereum blockchain. Was planning to bridge with AP networks. May be abandoned due to competition from Peepeth and Minds.

  • Peepeth - a moderated web-based social network app that uses the Ethereum blockchain.

  • Steemit - a web-based social network app (Slashdot/Reddit-a-like with up/down voting) that uses the Steem blockchain.

  • Twister - a birdsite clone using its own blockchain (?)

SSB

SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt) is a distributed networking protocol based on DAT, see also: https://datproject.org/

  • Manyverse is an SSB client for Android/Linux.

  • Patchworkis an SSB client for desktop platforms (currently supporting GNU/Linux, MacOS, and Windows).

XMPP

  • Movim is a web client with social network features, written in PHP and uses eJabberd (Erlang) backend any XMPP server with XEP-0060 PubSub support. Users can login to any Movim instance using any XMPP account, just as they can login to any Pinafore instance using any Mastodon account.

  • Salut à Toi (includes the Libervia web client) is a social network based on XMPP/Jabber.