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Federation projects on GitHub

Federated protocols that let independent servers interoperate.

As of , the most-starred Federation projects on GitHub are ruflo (75.8K stars), mastodon (50.4K stars) and Rocket.Chat (46.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 10 Federation repositories with 296K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was ruflo, with +461 stars in a day.

10Projects
296KStars in total
+499Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+461

ruflo

ruvnet/ruflo · ★ 75.8K

Ruflo is an agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex: it adds 100+ specialized agents, coordinated swarms, self-learning memory, and cross-machine federation on top of those coding agents so they can collaborate instead of running solo.

+21

server

nextcloud/server · ★ 37.1K

Nextcloud server is a self-hosted platform for storing, syncing, and sharing your files, contacts, calendars, and more, with hundreds of apps (Mail, Video Chat, etc.) to extend it.

+6

owncast

owncast/owncast · ★ 11.6K

Owncast is an open source, self-hosted, decentralized, single-user live video streaming and chat server you run yourself instead of relying on mainstream streaming platforms.

+5

Rocket.Chat

RocketChat/Rocket.Chat · ★ 46.3K

Rocket.Chat is an open-source, self-hostable team communications platform for real-time chat, voice calls, and federation, aimed at organizations with high data protection requirements.

The all-time top

10 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · ruvnet/ruflo

    ruflo

    Ruflo is an agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex: it adds 100+ specialized agents, coordinated swarms, self-learning memory, and cross-machine federation on top of those coding agents so they can collaborate instead of running solo.

    75.8K
  2. #2 · mastodon/mastodon

    mastodon

    Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub, where users can follow friends, discover new ones, and publish text, links, pictures, and video.

    50.4K
  3. #3 · RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

    Rocket.Chat

    Rocket.Chat is an open-source, self-hostable team communications platform for real-time chat, voice calls, and federation, aimed at organizations with high data protection requirements.

    46.3K
  1. 4

    server

    37.1Knextcloud/server · PHP

    Nextcloud server is a self-hosted platform for storing, syncing, and sharing your files, contacts, calendars, and more, with hundreds of apps (Mail, Video Chat, etc.) to extend it.

  2. 5

    social-app

    18.3Kbluesky-social/social-app · TypeScript

    This is the official codebase for the Bluesky Social app, the client for the decentralized AT Protocol social network, available on Web, iOS, and Android.

  3. 6

    hydra

    17.6Kory/hydra · Go

    Ory Hydra is an OpenID Certified OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect server, written in Go, that issues and validates tokens, manages clients, and orchestrates login and consent. Run it self-hosted or as a managed service on the Ory Network.

  4. 7

    PeerTube

    15.4KChocobozzz/PeerTube · TypeScript

    PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform built as an alternative to centralized services like YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo.

  5. 8

    synapse

    12.1Kmatrix-org/synapse · Python

    Synapse is an open-source Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted - server software that lets you run your own chat server on the decentralized, federated Matrix network, with support for encryption and VoIP.

  6. 9

    owncast

    11.6Kowncast/owncast · Go

    Owncast is an open source, self-hosted, decentralized, single-user live video streaming and chat server you run yourself instead of relying on mainstream streaming platforms.

  7. 10

    misskey

    11.3Kmisskey-dev/misskey · TypeScript

    Misskey is an open source, federated social media (microblogging) platform built on ActivityPub, so your own instance can follow and interact with accounts on other fediverse servers like Mastodon. The project describes itself as free forever.

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