Social Media and Communications

Cereal Soup is an MMO-style animal roleplaying game where you customize your character, battle, and explore the world of Primordial. Has user submitted custom content for your character.

Newgrounds.com, the large Flash games and animation site that spawned Alien Hominid, has been accepting user-produced submissions since 1999. That it has been quietly spearheading for eight years what is only now being trumpeted about in the mainstream media is indicative of how...

Inkbunny is a furry art community that helps artists showcase their artwork, comics, stories, music and animations. Join For Free to start exploring, sharing and selling!

Weasyl is a social gallery website designed for artists, writers, musicians, and more to share their work with other artists and fans.

Create playlists and discover great new music through online mixes made by music lovers worldwide.

Keep track of your completed anime and manga, browse the database to find new series, discuss on the forums or with friends.

WEBTOON is a digital comics platform with various comics for free on web and mobile.

Put tens of thousands of comics and web novels in your pocket!

Got a minute to kill at the bus stop, the bathroom (don’t worry – we won’t tell), or on your lunch break? Sounds like you need a story snack! Enjoy a quick laugh or get lost in a captivating story created by one of t.

Glitchwave is a community-built video game database where you can rate, review, catalog and discover new games as well as participate in contributing to the database itself. Part of the RateYourMusic family.

LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for people who love to read. It allows users to easily create their own catalogs of books that they have read, own, or would like to read.

Open source, self-governing communities with auditable moderation and mod elections.

Online blogging software - free for basic users! Personal publishing, community involvement and individual expression.

Dreamwidth Studios is a home and a community for all kinds of creative folk. Share your writing, your artwork, or your innermost thoughts. Find others who create the sort of things you like to enjoy. Control who can see your creation with our fine-grained privacy controls.

Discogs is a crowdsourced music database and marketplace. Discover music, buy and sell music with collectors in the Marketplace in all physical formats.

OpenCritic is a review aggregator for video games. We gather game reviews from across the internet and bundle them together on a single game page.

Rate Your Music is a community-built music and film database where you can rate, review, catalog and discover new music and films as well as participate in contributing to the database itself.

We believe that the information we use to make decisions -- about what book to read, what place to stay at or what product to buy -- will be of higher quality if we organize it transparently, through an open community.

Track watched films, rate and review titles, create personalized lists, explore trending movies, and join a global community sharing recommendations and discussions.

Track your TV shows and movies automatically with media integration and mobile check-ins. Discover new favorites and use the extensive API across platforms.

Decentralized social network on the fediverse. Usable for both #microblogging and full length #blog posts. Editing both content and replies is supported.

GNU social is a continuation of the StatusNet project. It is social communication software for both public and private communications. It is widely supported and has a large userbase.

Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected based websites featuring a decentralised identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology. Hubzilla is very suitable for communities (of any size).

The StoryGraph helps you track your reading and choose your next book based on your mood and your favorite topics and themes.

BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Federation allows BookWyrm users to join small, trusted communities that can connect with one another, and with other ActivityPub services like...

Owncast is a self-hosted live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software. Point your live stream at a server you personally control and regain ownership over your content.

Castopod is an open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want to engage and interact with their audience.

Platform for exploring a vast global music catalog, with direct artist support, instant streaming and download of DRM-free purchases, and physical merchandise.

Stream millions of tracks and discover new music while supporting artists via fan-powered streams. Enjoy ad-free listening and offline access with subscriptions.

Decentralized, open source music streaming; self-hosted, browse by artist, genre; Android, iOS app compatibility. Enjoy unlimited streaming.

Experience YouTube ad-free on desktop with enhanced privacy. FreeTube prevents Google tracking and works seamlessly across Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Experience instant messaging with remarkable speed and robust security. Join massive group chats or channels. Enjoy free and advanced features.

An encrypted messaging app focused on privacy, supporting texts, calls, photos, videos, files, and group chats, with no ads or trackers.

Jitsi Desktop (previously SIP Communicator) is a legacy audio/video and chat communicator with full encryption, precedessor of Jitsi Meet .

DTube is the first crypto-decentralized video platform, built on top of the Steemit and the IPFS peer-to-peer network.

A secure collaboration app with end-to-end encryption and interoperability across web, desktop, and mobile. Includes chat, voice, and video calls.

Lightweight and open-source app for YouTube, PeerTube, SoundCloud, and more. No Google Account needed, supports 4K and background audio streaming with downloads.

LBRY is the first digital marketplace to be controlled by the market's participants rather than a corporation or other 3rd-party.

Matrix defines a set of open APIs for decentralised communication, suitable for securely publishing, persisting and subscribing to data over a global open federation of servers with no single point of control.

Launch your own channel | Watch and share videos.

OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. It is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.

Bibliogram is a website that takes data from Instagram 's public profile views and puts it into a friendlier page that loads faster, gives downloadable images, eliminates ads, generates RSS feeds, and doesn't urge you to sign up.

The world's most popular modern publishing platform for creating a new media platform.

A forever evolving, sophisticated microblogging platform.

Pixelfed is an image sharing platform with focus on Privacy, Safety and Security, an ethical alternative to centralized platforms like Instagram.

Friendica is a distributed social network application. Which allow users to connect with others via their own Friendica server, but may also fully integrate contacts from other platforms including Twitter, diaspora*, Pump.io and StatusNet into their 'newsfeed'.

Reddit Enhancement Suite is a community-driven unofficial browser extension for Reddit.

A free and open source alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy. Inspired by the Nitter project.

Private, fast Reddit front-end written in Rust with no JavaScript, ads, or tracking. Proxies all requests, avoids Reddit OAuth, and enforces strong content security.

Nitter is a free and open-source front-end mirror of Twitter, which allows you to consult Twitter, with a focus on privacy.

An open-source, ad-free front-end to YouTube offering video downloads, audio-only mode, and subscription management without JS or registration.