TLDR: I want to run a small "basic Facebook blue/classic" (circa 2006-2009) clone for a private community. Can you suggest such a FOSS project to use?<p>MUCH MORE:<p>I thought it would be easy to find this in the FOSS world, but I came up short after looking around. There are hosted and commercial solutions, but I want true FOSS. Maybe I just missed it.<p>There's a spectrum from Mastodon down to "GNU social", but those are too complicated and too poor in terms of design, respectively (no offense, anyone).<p>To reiterate, all I really want is a basic Facebook classic clone that is maintained. Why do I find there are none? I thought this was (or used to be) a learning-programming weekend project, though would take more effort to make it more secure/scalable, etc.<p>I don't care about scaling beyond 1000 people. Basic PHP is ok. But it should have security patches regularly, so some group of people would have to care about it.<p>Can you clue me in? What is the closest project to this? The important features are not very numerous:<p>- post to own timeline (or "wall"), any kind of self-post/mini-blog as self profile<p>- any user can create groups (ideally site-public, private-access-but-listed, and secret)<p>- request addition to groups<p>- invite users to groups<p>- post text and/or image to groups, obviously<p>- instant messaging among users in the same window is ok<p>- group instant messaging (I think?)<p>There doesn't even need to be a mobile app. I don't even need audio or video support, though I guess those would be nice-to-have. Desktop web browsers only is ok. Ideally, I suppose that it would be responsive for mobile devices, but, honestly, that does not matter at all, given that our phones have desktop resolutions these days.<p>I could make one, but it would be easier in terms of security efforts to be part of a larger project. Thanks for ideas. I think this is a basic functionality. The design should be really good, though, and IMO pretty much a straight-up clone is the only way. No current FOSS seems to fit it any more (while keeping things simple and also checking all the boxes).<p>I am not worried about bots, moderation, and bad actors, because the site will be closed to our real-world group only, and the moderation by membership/admins will be sufficient.<p>THANK YOU.