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Misskey

misskey-dev/misskey

An open-source alternative to Twitter.

🌎 A completely free and open interplanetary-microblogging platform 🚀 (from the repository)

Stars
11,347
Licence
AGPL-3.0
Last push
2026-10-17
Written in
TypeScript

Is it alive?

Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Active
Last push 11 days ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Recent
2026.10.0, 27 days ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
73% closed
2,257 open · 6,137 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+16 in 9 days
11,347 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.

What a business may do with it

Network copyleftAGPL-3.0

Like the GPL, and offering a modified version to users over a network counts: they are owed its source.

This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.

Run it yourself

Misskey’s README does not show a docker run, docker compose up or helm install in a code block, so this page will not guess one. It may be a desktop app, a library, or documented on its website.

Misskey against the other open-source options

Every project offered against Twitter, most-starred first.
Misskey compared with other open-source alternatives
ProjectStarsActivityLicenceSelf-hostLanguage
Misskey (this page)11,347ActiveNetwork copyleft○TypeScript
Movim2,065ActiveNetwork copyleft○PHP
All open-source alternatives to Twitter →

Where this page comes from

  • Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
  • The pairing with Twitter and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
  • Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data