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Social Networking & Microblogging
What 7 leading Social Networking & Microblogging apps are built on: the providers each one ships in its code or lists as an integration, grouped by layer and capability, and joined to the catalog.
domain layer 5 capabilities
Social Networks & Community 5 providers · AE-170.50 · API Evangelist extension
Social Networks & Community capability
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| X (Twitter) | observed [1] | Friendica | 73.0 exemplar |
| Bluesky | observed [1] | Friendica | 45.1 developing |
| pnut.io | observed [1] | Friendica | 32.4 thin |
| Nitter | observed [1] | Friendica | 9.5 minimal |
| Tumblr | observed [1] | Friendica | 7.9 minimal |
Content Management 4 providers · AE-170.70 · API Evangelist extension
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress | observed [1] | Friendica | 46.0 developing |
| Dreamwidth | observed [1] | Friendica | 23.3 emerging |
| LiveJournal | observed [1] | Friendica | 18.9 emerging |
| InsaneJournal | observed [1] | Friendica | 3.1 minimal |
Machine Translation 2 providers · AE-110.40.10 · API Evangelist extension
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepL | observed [1] [2] | Mastodon, Misskey | 59.8 strong |
| LibreTranslate | observed [1] | Mastodon | 26.2 thin |
Online Communities 1 providers · AE-170.50.10 · API Evangelist extension
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discourse | observed [1] | Friendica | 34.5 thin |
common layer 16 capabilities
Bot Protection & CAPTCHA 4 providers · AE-160.70 · API Evangelist extension
Bot Protection & CAPTCHA capability
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| hCaptcha | observed [1] [2] [3] | Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed | 30.6 thin |
| Cloudflare Turnstile | observed [1] [2] | Misskey, Pixelfed | 27.3 thin |
| Google reCAPTCHA | observed [1] | Misskey | 48.1 developing |
| mCaptcha | observed [1] | Misskey | 29.9 thin |
Storage Management 4 providers · BC-600.50.20 · Turbo EA
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon S3 | observed [1] [2] [3] | Friendica, Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed | 70.8 exemplar |
| Azure Blob Storage | observed [1] | Mastodon | 55.5 strong |
| DigitalOcean Spaces | observed [1] | Pixelfed | 45.0 developing |
| OpenStack Swift | observed [1] | Mastodon | 36.1 thin |
Managed Operational Databases 3 providers · AE-915 · API Evangelist extension
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redis | observed [1] [2] [3] | Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed | 47.4 developing |
| PostgreSQL | observed [1] [2] | Mastodon, Misskey | 12.2 emerging |
| MySQL | observed [1] | Pixelfed | 30.2 thin |
Product Usage Analytics 2 providers · BC-4280.30 · Turbo EA
Product Usage Analytics capability
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | observed [1] [2] [3] | Instagram, Misskey, Threads | 72.1 exemplar |
| Matomo | observed [1] | Friendica | 70.6 exemplar |
Observability Management 2 providers · BC-4220.20 · Turbo EA
Observability Management capability
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sentry | observed [1] [2] | Bluesky, Misskey | 80.6 exemplar |
| bitdrift | observed [1] | Bluesky | 58.6 strong |
Transactional Email 3 providers · AE-150.10.10 · API Evangelist extension
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon SES | observed [1] | Pixelfed | 80.6 exemplar |
| Resend | observed [1] | Pixelfed | 58.9 strong |
| Mailgun | observed [1] | Pixelfed | 30.9 thin |
Avatars, GIFs & Stickers 2 providers · AE-170.30.30 · API Evangelist extension
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gravatar | observed [1] | Friendica | 38.5 thin |
| Libravatar | observed [1] | Friendica | 21.2 emerging |
Base Map Tiles 2 providers · AE-120.20.10 · API Evangelist extension
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Maps | observed [1] | Friendica | 49.7 developing |
| OpenStreetMap | observed [1] | Friendica | 44.4 developing |
Push Notifications 1 providers · AE-150.30 · API Evangelist extension
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Expo | observed [1] [2] | Bluesky, Pixelfed | 31.4 thin |
Search and Discovery Management 2 providers · BC-830.20.30 · Turbo EA
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elasticsearch | observed [1] | Mastodon | 76.1 exemplar |
| Meilisearch | observed [1] | Misskey | 52.0 developing |
Social & Federated Login 1 providers · AE-160.10.30 · API Evangelist extension
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Facebook Login / Notifications | observed [1] [2] | Instagram, Threads | 42.7 developing |
Feature Flag Management 1 providers · BC-4210.50 · Turbo EA
Feature Flag Management capability
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| GrowthBook | observed [1] | Bluesky | 32.7 thin |
Realtime Messaging 1 providers · AE-150.70 · API Evangelist extension
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pusher | observed [1] | Pixelfed | 38.6 thin |
Reverse Geocoding 1 providers · AE-120.10.20 · API Evangelist extension
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| GeoNames | observed [1] | Friendica | 5.2 minimal |
Weather & Environment 1 providers · AE-230.10 · API Evangelist extension
Weather & Environment capability
| Provider | Evidence | Apps | Kin Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenWeatherMap | observed [1] | Friendica | 60.4 strong |
Reference apps
Mastodon open-source-saas
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
- observed ships the Amazon S3 SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Azure Blob Storage SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the DeepL SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Elasticsearch SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the hCaptcha SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the LibreTranslate SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the OpenStack Swift SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the PostgreSQL SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Redis SDK or integration code source
Read from: Android build analysis (Exodus Privacy, reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org), dependency manifest, source code, source code
Bluesky open-source-saas
https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app
- observed ships the bitdrift SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Expo SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the GrowthBook SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Sentry SDK or integration code source
Read from: Android build analysis (Exodus Privacy, reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org), dependency manifest, source code
Pixelfed self-hosted
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
- observed ships the Amazon S3 SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Amazon SES SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Cloudflare Turnstile SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the DigitalOcean Spaces SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Expo push SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the hCaptcha SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Mailgun SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the MySQL SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Pusher SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Redis SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Resend SDK or integration code source
Read from: dependency manifest, source code, source code, source code, source code
Misskey self-hosted
https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey
- observed ships the Amazon S3 SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Cloudflare Turnstile SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the DeepL SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Google Analytics SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Google reCAPTCHA SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the hCaptcha SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the mCaptcha SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Meilisearch SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the PostgreSQL SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Redis SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Sentry SDK or integration code source
Read from: dependency manifest, dependency manifest, source code, source code, source code
Friendica self-hosted
https://github.com/friendica/friendica
- observed ships the Amazon S3 SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Bluesky SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Discourse SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Dreamwidth SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the GeoNames SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Google Maps SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Gravatar SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the IFTTT SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the InsaneJournal SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Invidious SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Libravatar SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the LiveJournal SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Matomo SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Nitter SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the OpenStreetMap SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the OpenWeatherMap SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the pnut.io SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Tumblr SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the WordPress SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the X (Twitter) SDK or integration code source
Read from: dependency manifest, source code
Instagram commercial
- observed ships the Facebook Login / Notifications SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Google Analytics SDK or integration code source
Read from: Android build analysis (Exodus Privacy, reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org)
Threads commercial
- observed ships the Facebook Login / Notifications SDK or integration code source
- observed ships the Google Analytics SDK or integration code source
Read from: Android build analysis (Exodus Privacy, reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org)
Where these apps are listed
- apple-app-store: Social Networking
- google-play: Social
- awesome-selfhosted: Communication - Social Networks and Forums
See also the shared layer under every category.