The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Self-Hosted
Cato.social Alternatives
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95 SpaceHey alternativesSpaceHey is a friendly online community for you and your friends that lets you communicate with each other, share content and discover new content and people.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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- Online
- Android
- Android Tablet
- iPhone
- iPad
Germany
EU
+5
91 GNU social alternativesGNU 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.
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- Self-Hosted
United States
Undeafen is a social app where every post is a voice note. No photos, no videos. Your profile holds your voice notes the way an Instagram profile holds photos, and people reply in voice or text. It's where people share stories, opinions, advice, rants, even poems, anything...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
India
This is a fork of Pleroma, which is a microblogging server software that can federate (= exchange messages with) other servers that support ActivityPub. What that means is that you can host a server for yourself or your friends and stay in control of your online identity, but...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Online
- Self-Hosted
Known is a simple platform for publishing words, pictures, podcasts and more to a site that you control. Choose to share it on social networks like Twitter and Facebook, or extend it to integrate with the software you already use.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Online
- Self-Hosted
- United States
+4
HyperTexting is your timeline minus the ads, algorithms, and AI slop. It's like the “for you” feed, but it actually works… for YOU (not the platforms).
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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- iPhone
- United States
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- gevent
- Self-Hosted
- Python
- JavaScript
- ZeroNet
109 Bastyon alternativesBastyon is a revolutionary anti-censorship decentralized publishing and social platform voted to freedom of speech. Based on the blockchain technology, it runs on a set of computers around the world, not controlled by any single entity.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Global
+1
Decentralized social network on the fediverse. Usable for both #microblogging and full length #blog posts. Editing both content and replies is supported.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
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- Mac
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- United States
+5
a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform sea-slang for gossip - a scuttlebutt is basically a watercooler on a ship.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Patchwork
