One of the most popular alternatives to Facebook is Mastodon, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are diaspora*, Minds, Friendica and VK. You're spoiled for choice with Social Networks like Facebook: we list more than 100 alternatives for the web, Android, iPhone, self-hosting and iPad.
Vero is a social network for anyone who loves anything enough to share it – and wants control over who they share it with. Just like we do in real life.
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a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform sea-slang for gossip - a scuttlebutt is basically a watercooler on a ship.
identi.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.
Canada
Bastyon 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.
We like to think Plurk as a social network for weirdos - the cool, uncompromising and loving community for misfits we all long to have.
opensource-socialnetwork also know as OSSN is a social networking software written in PHP. It allows you to make a social networking website, helps your members build social relationships with people who share similar professional or personal interests.
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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.
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A cooperative social network designed for organizing and building community. Communities uses a bi-directional friend model and supports long form posts and groups. We're working on events, tags, local feeds, custom feeds, messaging, and more.
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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).
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OpenVK is an attempt to create a simple CMS that cosplays imitates old VK. Code provided here is not stable yet.
Libertree is free, libre, open-source software which is intended to provide a way for people to create their own social network. Libertree social networks can be free from commercial influence and manifestation, such as behaviour tracking, user profiling, advertising, data...
Trust Café (formerly WT Social / WikiTribune) is a privacy-focused and ad-free social network that places a special emphasis on evidence-based journalism. The platform survives on the generosity of individual donors to ensure privacy is protected and social space is ad-free.
