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Social-network projects on GitHub

Social platforms, community apps, and profiling of social media accounts.

As of , the most-starred Social-network projects on GitHub are mastodon (50.4K stars), maigret (39.2K stars) and hey.xyz (29.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 12 Social-network repositories with 250.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was maigret, with +41 stars in a day.

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250.9KStars in total
+72Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+41

maigret

soxoj/maigret · ★ 39.2K

Maigret is an OSINT command-line tool that builds a dossier on a person by checking for an account under a given username across thousands of websites and pulling together whatever profile info it finds, with no API keys required.

+10

holehe

megadose/holehe · ★ 15.2K

Holehe is an OSINT tool that checks whether an email address is registered on 120+ websites (Twitter, Instagram, Spotify, Imgur, etc) by abusing each site's 'forgot password' or registration flow, without alerting the target.

+6

lemmy

LemmyNet/lemmy · ★ 14.6K

Lemmy is a free, open-source link aggregator and forum for the fediverse — think Reddit or Hacker News, but anyone can run a server and all servers connect into one network.

+5

nostr

nostr-protocol/nostr · ★ 12.1K

Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open protocol for a censorship-resistant global social network. This repo holds the idea and spec, not an app.

The all-time top

12 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · 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
  2. #2 · soxoj/maigret

    maigret

    Maigret is an OSINT command-line tool that builds a dossier on a person by checking for an account under a given username across thousands of websites and pulling together whatever profile info it finds, with no API keys required.

    39.2K
  3. #3 · slymnoyann/hey.xyz

    hey.xyz

    Hey is a decentralized, permissionless social media app built on Lens Protocol. This repo preserves the last open-source version of its code, as it existed before May 15, 2026.

    29.4K
  1. 4

    forem

    22.8Kforem/forem · Ruby

    Forem is open-source software for building communities — it is the platform that powers dev.to. You run it to create your own space where members publish articles, join discussions, and build profiles.

  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

    holehe

    15.2Kmegadose/holehe · Python

    Holehe is an OSINT tool that checks whether an email address is registered on 120+ websites (Twitter, Instagram, Spotify, Imgur, etc) by abusing each site's 'forgot password' or registration flow, without alerting the target.

  4. 7

    lemmy

    14.6KLemmyNet/lemmy · Rust

    Lemmy is a free, open-source link aggregator and forum for the fediverse — think Reddit or Hacker News, but anyone can run a server and all servers connect into one network.

  5. 8

    diaspora

    13.7Kdiaspora/diaspora · Ruby

    diaspora* is a privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network: instead of one company-owned platform, it is a network of many independent servers (pods) run by different people.

  6. 9

    sigma.js

    12.2Kjacomyal/sigma.js · TypeScript

    Sigma.js is an open-source JavaScript library for visualizing graphs of thousands of nodes and edges using WebGL rendering.

  7. 10

    nostr

    12.1Knostr-protocol/nostr

    Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open protocol for a censorship-resistant global social network. This repo holds the idea and spec, not an app.

  8. 11

    github-do-not-ban-us

    11.7K1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us · JavaScript

    An open letter and protest campaign against GitHub restricting Iranian developers' accounts, which also showcases open-source projects made by Iranian developers.

  9. 12

    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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