Decentralized and federated social platform with no ads, focusing on personal interaction, and offering 500 character posts, custom emojis, content warnings, and robust moderation tools.
Germany
EU
+6
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The best alternative to Facebook is Mastodon, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Facebook and many of them are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to Facebook are Movim, SpaceHey, Threads and Manyverse.
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- 153 Mastodon alternatives
117 Movim alternativesDecentralized social and blog platform based on XMPP, enabling self-hosting, cross-network chat, video calls, and group collaboration. Users control and migrate their data, communicate across various networks, and access services from any node while preserving privacy and open-source principles.
France- EU
+6
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.
- Germany
- EU
+5
- France
- EU
Manyverse is a social network app using the SSB protocol (Secure Scuttlebutt) where you can write posts and share with friends nearby or over the internet. It's different from mainstream social networks because your data is yours, it lives on your phone, not in the cloud.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Since
- Since 2018
Alerts
- Discontinued
Finland- EU
- France
- EU
+3
Human Connection is an independent, not-for-profit online platform that wants to combines a social network, a knowledge network and an action network – with useful tools to exchange, research and discuss ideas and the space to start projects together.
- Germany
- EU
+8
82 XING alternativesXING is the leading online business network with 16 million members in German-speaking countries. Workers from every industry use XING to connect with one another, to look for jobs, new hires, projects, cooperation partners, expert advice and business ideas.
23 SlimSocial for Facebook alternativesSlimSocial for Facebook is a lightweight and customizable alternative to the official Facebook app. It was originally created in 2015 as a project to explore Android app development, but it was put on hold due to university and work commitments.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Since
- Since 2017
Italy- EU
- Germany
- EU
Mageo is a free-to-play network adventure, a geolocation-based role-playing game where all of your social and game activities contribute to your rank and position on the leaderboards. Make friends from all over the world, collect and display amazing clothing and accessories on...
Czechia- EU
14 Ocelot.social alternativesOcelot.social is an open source program code that is freely available for operating social networks. Its development is supported by a community of programmers and interested network operators.
- Germany
- EU
+9
