Friendica
Friendica is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Social & Forums category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in PHP. It is a self-hosted alternative to Twitter / X. It has 1,697 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 1,697
- Forks
- 384
- Open issues
- 1,356
- Commits, last 12 months
- 2,640
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- 2026.05-1May 21, 2026
- Created
- Nov 6, 2011
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 2,640 commits in 12 months.
- Welcomes contributors7 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 2,640 |
| Latest release | 2026.05-1 (May 21, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 2 |
| Releases, all time | 44 |
| Open issues | 1,356 |
| Open pull requests | 27 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Nov 6, 2011 |
Health as of , from the GitHub API. A label describes activity, not quality or security. How we label project health · Report a data error
About Friendica
Social Communication Server.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/friendica/friendica.
Topics
- fediverse
- federation
- social-network
- social-media
- self-hosted
- hacktoberfest
- php
- mariadb
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Is Friendica free and open source?
Yes. Friendica is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Friendica with Docker?
Friendica does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (PHP), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to Friendica?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Friendica include Mastodon, Discourse and Flarum. Friendica itself is a self-hosted alternative to Twitter / X.
Is Friendica actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Friendica was on Oct 25, 2026 with 2,640 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 2026.05-1, published May 21, 2026. It had 1,356 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.