Comparison of social networking software

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Social networking software provides the technological basis for community driven content sharing and social networking.

See also Comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking, especially for open-source software. Comparison of microblogging and similar services may also be relevant.

## Social networking software comparison

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Aggregator  | Access control | Wiki | Forum | Blog  | Media sharing  | Credits and payments  | p2p Video-confrencing  | Messaging  | Event Calendar | Group Rides  | Social Grouping  | Tagging | Connectivity  | Poll Generation/Tally  | Contact Management  | Supports the Semantic Web | Supports DataPortability  | Customizable  | Comment  | Name

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BuddyPress | 2020-01-08  | GPL 2.0 | Free  | Yes  | 5.1.2  | Out of the box  | PHP, MySQL/PostgreSQL | OpenID \+ OAuth \+ Facebook \+ Twitter built in  | Yes  | Yes  | Users, groups (extensible via plugins)  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |  | Yes  | Yes  |  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Extensible via plugins with a flexible API; skinnable; available in many languages  | Based on WordPress.  | BuddyPress
Drupal | 2008-11-02  | GPL 2.0[1] | Free  | Yes  | 5  | Out of the box  | PHP, PDO  | OpenID, module  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Module  | Yes  | Yes  |  |  | Yes  | Module  |  | Plugin  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Extensible via plugins, widgets, tasks, events, REST; skinnable; available in many languages  | Community and collaboration platform with many integrated core applications  | Drupal
Elgg | 2014-01-01  | GPL 2.0[2] | Free  | Yes  | 3.3.11  | Out of the box  | PHP, MySQL / PostgreSQL / Oracle / Microsoft SQL Server | Module[3] | Yes  | Yes  | Users levels, Groups, Pages  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |  | Yes  | Yes  |  | Yes  | Yes  | Facebook, Google, Content Mirroring, RSS importer, External Widgets  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Extensible via plugins with a flexible API; skinnable; available in many languages  | ?  | ELGG
Humhub | 2021-01-28  | AGPLv3 or under a proprietary license  | Free or 99€ / monthly  | Yes  | 1.10.3  | Ou of the box  | PHP, MySQL, or MariaDB with InnoDB storage engine installed  | Yes  | No  | No  | Users, Spaces, Groups  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |  | Yes  | Yes  |  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes

Discord,

Google,

Facebook,

Kopano,

OnlyOffice

| Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Provides API  | ?  | Humhub
ImpressCMS | 2012-04-22  | GPL 2.0 | Free  | Yes  | 1.5.20  | Out of the box  | PHP, MySQL | Facebook Connect  | Plugin  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | via plugins  |  |  | Yes  | Plugin  |  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Content management  | ImpressCMS
Jamroom | 2017-02-07  | MPL | Free, $299 Premium, Hosted from $39  | Yes  | 6.1.0  | Hosted Out of the box  | PHP, MySQL | OpenID \+ LDAP + Yubikey + Active Directory built in  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Module  | Yes  | Plugin  | Yes  |  |  | Yes  | Module  |  | Module  | Module  | @all by Module  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Module  | Small Core, 150+ modules, responsive, SEO optimized, cloud scalable, friendly support and community  | Jamroom
Joomla!  | 2007-03-05  | GPL 2.0 | Free  | Yes  | 3.9.5  | Out of the box/hosted  | PHP, MySQL | LDAP + Active Directory built in  | ?  | ?  | Users roles  | Module  | Yes  | Yes  | Images/Photos, Videos, Maps, etc.  |  |  | Yes  | Module  |  | Module  | Module  | Module  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Open source, Plugins, Themes, Events, Widgets  | Customizable Facebook-style newsfeed  | Joomla!
Kune | 2012-04-22  | AGPLv3 | Free  | Yes  | 9.7.2  | Out of the box (deb package)  | Java-based GWT, auto-generated AJAX  | LDAP, Facebook Connect, Google Account, GitHub, Microsoft Account, others  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |  |  | ?  | ?  |  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Federated, focused on real-time group collaboration and social networking, Apache Wave-based  | Kune
Minds | 2018-02-20  | AGPLv3 | Free  | Yes  | 1  | Out of the box  | Angular2, Cassandra, NodeJS, PHP, Elasticsearch, React Native  | oAuth 2.0, Google Account, Facebook Connect, Custom  | Yes  | Yes  | Group Levels, Memberships, Access Control, Privacy, Permissions  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Images, Video, Docs, Music, Extensions  |  |  | Messenger, WebRTC Chat, Mailbox, iOS and Android Chats, MAC and WIN Chat Apps  | No  |  | Groups, Events, Webinars  | Categories, Tags, Inline Hashtags  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Enterprise ready and scalable for millions of users  | Minds
Movim | ?  | AGPLv3 | Free  | Yes  |  | ?  | PHP | No  | No  | ?  | Group Levels, Memberships, Access Control, Privacy, Permissions  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  |  |  | Yes, and audio + video calls based webRTC | No  |  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes, with all networks supporting XMPP | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Federated, based on XMPP | Movim
pH7CMS | 2023-01-02  | GPL 3.0[4] | Free  | Yes  | 17.9.0[5] | Out of the box  | PHP 5.6+, JS, MySQL, MariaDB | oAuth 2.0, Google Account, Facebook Connect, Custom  | Yes  | Yes  | Access Control Levels, User levels, Actions, Memberships, Privacy, Permissions, Groups, Pages  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Images, Video, Docs, Music, Extensions  |  |  | Yes  | Yes  |  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Interactive Polls, Visual Graphs  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | 99% OOP code, MVC pattern, module- and template-based approach  | pH7CMS
Telligent Community | 2009-06-23  | Proprietary | Per License  | Yes  | 1.3.2  | Out of the box  | PHP, MySQL | Facebook Connect  | Yes  | ?  | Users, Groups  | No  | Component  | Component  | ?  |  |  | Plugin  | Plugin  |  | Plugin  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Module  | ?  | ?  | Module, Plugins, ImpressCMS Persitable Framework (IPF)  | ?  | Telligent Community
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | 2015-01-06  | LGPL 2.1[6] | Free  | Freely available via stable releases and development SVN  | 1.6.4  | Out of the box  | PHP, MySQL | OpenID \+ LDAP + Active Directory built in  | Blog, Files, Groups, Users, Tags  | Yes  | User levels, Groups  | Yes  | Plugin  | Yes  | Image, video, audio, documents, any filetype, automatic podcast support (Kaltura Elgg Plugin)[7] |  |  | Yes  | Plugin  |  | Yes  | Yes  | Webservices  | Plugin  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes, based on WordPress theme and plugin architecture  | ?  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
XOOPS | 2010-06-06  | GPL 2.0 | Free  | Yes  | 0.2.0 (beta/production)  | Out of the box  | PHP, MySQL | Facebook Connect  | ?  | ?  | Users (with roles), Groups  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |  |  | ?  | ?  |  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Open source; extensible via gadgets (wave extensions) & via modules; skinnable; available in many languages  | Modular approach[8] | XOOPS
Name  | Last Access  | License | Cost | Source code | Version | Installation | Codebase | SSO support  | RSS | RSS
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Aggregator  | Access control | Wiki | Forum | Blog  | Media sharing  |  |  | Messaging  | Event Calendar |  | Social Grouping  | Tagging | Connectivity  | Poll Generation/Tally  | Contact Management  | Supports the Semantic Web | Supports DataPortability  | Customizable  | Comment  | Name

## References

1. ↑ "About Drupal". Drupal Open Source CMS. http://drupal.org/about.
2. ↑ "Elgg License". Elgg Open Source Social Networking Engine. http://elgg.org/license.php.
3. ↑ "Jamroom Marketplace System". youtube. 3 October 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9BTURpfFWU.
4. ↑ pH7CMS General Public License 3
5. ↑ pH7CMS v17.9 Release
6. ↑ "Tiki Wiki License (GNU Lesser General Public License v. 2.1)". Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. http://tiki.org/license.
7. ↑ "Kaltura Collaborative Video Plugin". The Elgg Community. http://community.elgg.org/pg/groups/282/kaltura-plugin/.
8. ↑ "Why XOOPS?". XOOPS Web Application System. http://www.xoops.org/modules/wfchannel/index.php?wfc_cid=24.

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Social networking services

Personal|

* 23snaps
* Amikumu
* aNobii
* AsianAve
* Ask.fm
* Badoo
* Cloob
* Cyworld
* Diaspora
* Draugiem.lv
* Ello
* Facebook
* Foursquare
* Gab
* Hello
* Hi5
* Highlight
* Houseparty
* Idka
* Instagram
* IGTV
* IRC-Galleria
* Keek
* LiveJournal
* Lifeknot
* Likee
* LockerDome
* Marco Polo
* Mastodon
* MeetMe
* Meetup
* Miaopai
* micro.blog
* Minds
* MixBit
* Mixi
* Myspace
* My World
* Nasza-klasa.pl
* Nextdoor
* OK.ru
* Parler
* Path
* Peach
* Periscope
* Pinterest
* Pixnet
* Plurk
* Qzone
* Readgeek
* Renren
* Sina Weibo
* Slidely
* Snapchat
* SNOW
* Spaces
* Streetlife
* StudiVZ
* Swarm
* Tagged
* Taringa!
* Tea Party Community
* TikTok
* Tinder
* Tout
* Tuenti
* TV Time
* Tumblr
* Twitter
* Untappd
* Vero
* VK
* Whisper
* Xanga
* Yo

Professional|

* Academia.edu
* Brainly
* BranchOut
* Edmodo
* IBM Connections
* LinkedIn
* Moodle
* ResearchGate
* Sciencescape (Metaα)
* Solaborate
* Viadeo
* XING
* IdeaPlane
* Yammer

Defunct|

* App.net
* Avatars United
* Bebo
* Bolt
* Capazoo
* eConozco
* Emojli
* eWorld
* Eyegroove
* FitFinder
* Formspring
* FriendFeed
* Friends Reunited
* Friendster
* Grono.net
* Google+
* Google Buzz
* Heello
* Hyves
* iTunes Ping
* iWiW
* Jaiku
* LunarStorm
* Me2day
* Meerkat
* Mobli
* Mugshot
* Multiply
* Musical.ly
* Natter Social Network
* Netlog
* Orkut
* Pheed
* Piczo
* PlanetAll
* Posterous
* Pownce
* Qaiku
* SixDegrees.com
* So.cl
* Spring.me
* Surfbook
* tbh
* Tribe.net
* Tsū
* tvtag
* Vine
* Windows Live Spaces
* Wretch
* Yahoo! 360°
* Yahoo! Kickstart
* Yahoo! Mash
* Yahoo! Meme
* Yik Yak

Services|

* Software comparison
* White-label
* Ning
* Wall.fm

Tools|

* Social network analysis software
* Diaspora (software)
* Web 2.0 Suicide Machine

Concepts|

* Online identity
* User profile
* Virtual community
* 1+ million users
* Small-world experiment
* Small-world network
* Social network
* Cybersectarianism

Applications|

* Social network advertising
* Social network hosting service
* Online dating service (comparison)
* Mobile

User interface|

* Activity stream
* Brand page
* Like button
* Hashtag
* Groups
* Reblogging
* Polling
* Online petitions

Implications|

* Privacy issues
* User gender difference
* Use in investigations

Protocols|

* ActivityPub
* Distributed Social Networking Protocol (defunct)
* Micropub
* OpenSocial (defunct)
* OStatus
* Pump.io
* XMPP

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