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CLUSTER BROWSING-SOCIAL-CLIENT · 39 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-08-29

Federated social network clients

This cluster comprises clients and apps for decentralized and federated social networks (e.g., diaspora*, Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed) as well as some niche community forums. The dated entries are sparse from 2010 through early 2024, then appear more regularly from late 2024, with the highest monthly count (3) occurring in June 2026. Traction is led by mobile-ios, the only member with an activity signal (3 stars), though the signal is modest overall.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

OCT 2010: 1FEB 2015: 1AUG 2015: 1MAR 2016: 1OCT 2016: 1MAR 2017: 1JUN 2018: 1SEP 2018: 1MAY 2019: 1MAY 2021: 1MAY 2022: 1SEP 2022: 1OCT 2022: 1MAY 2023: 1JUN 2023: 1OCT 2023: 1APR 2024: 1AUG 2024: 1NOV 2024: 2JAN 2025: 1FEB 2025: 1JUN 2026: 2JUL 2026: 1AUG 2026: 4SEP 2026: 7OCT 2026: 3
OCT 2010OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 4 hand-coded · 15 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 2 commercial · 13 open source · 3 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01mobile-ios6★20 days—hand-codedopen sourceNative mobile client for a social network that gives users an alternative way to browse feeds, communities, and messages.
  2. 02zup1★6 daysliveDecentralized social media web client that provides private, low-bandwidth messaging and interaction for users on the Nostr network.
  3. 03textlog0★27 daysliveopen sourceText-first mobile client for a small social network that offers feeds, nested threads, posting, and search without algorithmic timelines or metrics.
  4. 04local-first-social-native0★17 days—hobbyNative mobile app that provides a local-first social network with device-held encryption and shared document threads.
  5. 05sable-next0★5 days—open sourceCross-platform client application for a decentralized social network with a web and desktop interface.
  6. 06linxgeo-agent0★15 days—commercialDesktop application for publishing content to multiple social platforms while keeping login credentials local.
  7. 07Nipper0★24 days—hobbyMobile client for reading and posting on Lobste.rs with tag filtering, comments, voting, and user profiles.
  8. 08egoist-relay0★8 days—Desktop app that combines Telegram, X, and Instagram into one Windows client for unified messaging, sharing, and social browsing.
  9. 09Amethyst0★20 daysliveopen sourceAndroid app that connects to the Nostr social network for posting, following, messaging, and browsing content through decentralized relays.
  10. 10Nora0★18 daysliveopen sourceDesktop client for social media feeds that blocks ads and trackers, shows multiple timelines in deck or grid view, and supports video downloads.
  11. 11Aria for Misskey0★1 moliveopen sourceMobile client app for a federated microblogging network that lets users browse multiple timelines and manage several accounts across servers.
  12. 12SlimSocial for Facebook0★14 daysliveopen sourceLightweight open-source wrapper around Facebook's mobile website and APIs for a simple, ad-free experience.
  13. 13HACK for Hacker News YC Reader0★17 dayslivecommercialMobile client app for browsing and interacting with a tech and startup news community, including stories, comments, submissions, and notifications.
  14. 14canvas-social-connect0★1 mo—ai-builtA clean social page with responsive design, login and signup functionality for user connection.
  15. 15Mastodon0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceMobile client for a decentralized social network offering chronological feeds, hashtag following, content warnings, and multi-account support without algorithmic ranking.
  16. 16Tilde Friends0★8 daysliveopen sourceDecentralized peer-to-peer social network client that connects users via Secure Scuttlebutt and also runs web applications.
  17. 17Pixelix0★19 daysliveopen sourceMobile client for browsing Pixelfed and Vernissage social media feeds.
  18. 18Acho0★3 moliveopen sourceMobile app that provides access to the Acho social network through an embedded webview interface.
  19. 19dandelion*0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid client for the distributed social network diaspora* that allows browsing, sharing, and customizing content.
  20. 20Quteqoin0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop client for posting and browsing messages within a niche French-language online community network.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.