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Web-based Facebook Alternatives
There are many alternatives to Facebook as a web app if you are looking for a replacement. The best Online alternative is diaspora*, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Facebook and loads of them are available as a web app so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Online alternatives to Facebook are Mastodon, Minds, VK and Gab.
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Solcial is a decentralised social network built for privacy and freedom of speech. It give users the ability to interact with each other without fear of censorship and to allow content creators to monetize their work fairly at market value.
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- Proprietary
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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...
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40 Soapbox.pub alternativesSoapbox is customizable open-source software that puts the power of social media in the hands of the people. Feature-rich and hyper-focused on providing a user experience to rival Big Tech, Soapbox is already home to some of the biggest alternative social platforms on the...
Sharkey is a Misskey fork following upstream changes when possible, with added features. Like any other ActivityPub software Sharkey can interface with the thousands of servers that form the fediverse, an interconnected social network, working in tandem with software such as...
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126 Known alternativesKnown 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.
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Decentralized social network on the fediverse. Usable for both #microblogging and full length #blog posts. Editing both content and replies is supported.
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108 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.
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90 Identi.ca alternativesidenti.ca is a free personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service. It is based on pump.io, a free software which make up the distributed social network.
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Threads isn't an alternative to Facebook - it effectively IS Facebook. It's the Meta (Facebook's parent company) alternative to Twitter. It lacks most of Facebook's features, and it still burdened with everything you don't like about Meta.