Mu
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Scientists in Europe, please check out https://mu.social which is hosted by an european open foundation”
“You can switch to the AppView from https://mu.social/ and you'll get editing working.”
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“instead of something actually positive and better, but not as directly manipulable.”
“Just use https://mu.social, it's essentially the same thing”
Caveats and dissent
“I would run a million miles away from this.”
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I prototyped an agent[1] to use bash as the language for codemode, which in my opinion worked equally well”
“An MCP server and web app that provides real time access to news, markets, weather, video, places, search, etc.”
“a new agent/harness, mu. not ready yet”
“Originally I felt there should be an alternative to Google and Facebook.”
“Here's my similar project from a few years ago, in case you want to compare notes”
“I find it quite useful.”
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) 2 mentions
- Has W Social switched to closed source? 2 mentions
- Neural networks are clean 1 mention
- What is Codemode 1 mention
- Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down 1 mention
- CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps 1 mention
Also written as mu, mu.social, Mu.social. Data: mu.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“Scientists in Europe, please check out https://mu.social which is hosted by an european open foundation”
https://hello.mu.social/
“we use Eurosky/Mu.social daily for our social accounts”
“You can switch to the AppView from https://mu.social/ and you'll get editing working.”
“instead of something actually positive and better, but not as directly manipulable.”
“Just use https://mu.social, it's essentially the same thing”
“>mu is an open social app built in Europe and open to all.”
“I would run a million miles away from this.”