Known (software)

Known is an open source publishing tool designed to provide a way of more easily publishing status updates, blog posts, and photos to a wide range of social media services. It also allows you to keep a copy of the content you publish and post on your own site.^[5]

Original author(s)	Ben Werdmuller, Erin Richey[1]
Stable release	1.5[2] / 2 June 2023; 21 months ago (2023-06-02)
Repository	github.com/idno/Known
Written in	PHP[3]
Platform	web
Type	Blog software, Content Management System,
License	Apache License 2.0 [4]
Website	withknown.com

Known is available as installable open source software, similar to WordPress.^[6] It is a part of the IndieWeb movement,^[7] and is used as a teaching tool in higher education.^[8][9] It also supports multi-user use, and is sometimes considered as an intranet platform.^[10]

Known supports the W3C Recommendations Micropub^[11] and Webmention^[12] among others.

Known is supported since 2019 by Open Collective that serves as fiscal sponsor since for many FLOSS projects.^[13][14]