GNU social began in 2010 from the GNU FM project and later collaborated with StatusNet software making it what it is today.
# Will GNU Social become a popular social network site?

Apparently GNU Social could become a plugin and needs to be seen by the public.
Which is why I am looking into it and sharing what I find.

But you could use it by hosting it on your server or join servers that already are hosting GNU Social. 

![We Are Change2.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSfSA3wkk5dWd3QDhY9chmQorxnXAmFfKKYoMEoEiwzg4/We%20Are%20Change2.png)
These are creative and exciting days as the beast system is starving for citizens' support, whose Trust was betrayed by the institutions serving the beast.

__We the People are not powerless, we are creative problem solvers!__

Starve the Beast by leaving the corporate-government system of control and joining freedom nurturing efforts.
Leave Facebook, Google and Youtube to join freedom nurturing social media platforms and software.
We the People are the change we have been searching for.

# Download GNU Social
> Why are we making GNU social?
Well, like many of us, we've used several different social sites over the years. From orkut, to friendster, to myspace and now facebook. Yet, when a new site appears, and everyone flocks to use it, your contacts are left behind, as well as a significant amount of your private and personal information.
Social networks should be evolving, they should allow you to control what you put into them, and you should be able to keep control of your own data, including running the same software that GNU social uses, on your own website.
The web itself is already somewhat social in this regard. emerging standards like FoAF already handle some of the basics for a better way to control your contacts, and GNU social can add some fun features of its own.
GNU social is being created, from scratch, in php for maximum portability.
PHP runs on virtually any web hosting provider we can think of.
We recommend suhosin for added security.
...
Privacy is important, and lots of people value their privacy as well as their freedom to ensure the software they're using isn't doing things they don't want.

Get a copy of the code: our code is managed using git. [Visit the gnu-social project code repository](https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social) or check out the code with the following command:

git clone https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social.git

Here are Servers run by [active GNU members' community](https://gnu.io/social/try/servers.html)

See a wiki list of known [GNU social servers, many of which you can join](https://wiki.loadaverage.org/gnusocial) .

Visit: https://fediverse.kranglabs.com/ 
> Fediverse.org is an attempt to map all public nodes that are part of the GNU Social Fediverse as a way to contribute to the grow of the community, by offering a neutral starting point to newcommers, while being a knowledge-base for admins & users.

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