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Open-source alternatives to Facebook

3 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Facebook. Mastodon is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.

3 / 3
Pushed in the last 90 days
0 / 3
With a container command
0 / 3
Permissive licence
Facebook’s own site ↗

Side by side

Open-source alternatives to Facebook
ProjectStarsActivityLicenceSelf-hostLanguage
Mastodon50,415ActiveNetwork copyleft○Ruby
Movim2,065ActiveNetwork copyleft○PHP
Friendica1,693ActiveNetwork copyleft○PHP

Each one, briefly

  • Mastodon50,415 stars · network copyleft · active

    Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

  • Movim2,065 stars · network copyleft · active

    Movim - Decentralized social platform

    Also replaces Discord, Slack, Twitter

  • Friendica1,693 stars · network copyleft · active

    Friendica Communications Platform

Where this comes from

Which projects are offered against Facebook comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Facebook. Browse every open-source alternative.