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] 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.

Known is supported since 2019 by Open Collective that serves as fiscal sponsor since for many FLOSS projects.