I'm currently looking for a social network (similar to Facebook basic functionality). The point is to connect with my relatives who are currently using Facebook and invite them to join.
Critical criteria are:
- open source
- smooth user interface for non-geeks, beautiful to look at and easy to understand
- decentralized (WebSub, XMPP, Fedeverse…)
- easy to deploy in an LXC container
- maintainted
Bonus features:
- written is JS, Python (or Ruby)
- connect with Facebook
- link to facebook for post and read
- organize events
- mobile app for iOS (eventually Android)
- extendable
- less is more, no extra feature
the following plateforms meet all the request features except listed.
- Not decentralized
Minds has a notion of token which may de distracting for the core functionality and users may wonder what they are. Earning money for using a service makes an overuse of the service for non-quality (see steemit.com as an example of low quality comments)
- Not dencentralized
- nice interface
- client + server separate
decentralized via fediverse / ActivityPub with mobile apps using these. Twitter-like clone / based on Mastodon
Couln't get properly installed. Stuck with a 502 on websocket with no log
Not decentralized
- The interface is outdated
- no iOS mobile app (Twistora is just a web view that is unusable)
- Ruby 💎
- not open source
- not really open source, only third party libs
- outdated interace, looks like 2010 jquery mobile
https://github.com/buddycloud seems not to be maintained Decentralized via XMPP
- https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork
- https://github.com/pump-io/pump.io/ (abandoned?)
- https://github.com/seven1m/onebody (church specific?)