a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform sea-slang for gossip - a scuttlebutt is basically a watercooler on a ship.
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- Open Source (MIT)
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Facebook Alternatives
Facebook is described as 'Connect with friends and family, share photos and videos, organize events, and join groups on a cross-platform social network offering messaging, live streaming, and more' and is a leading Social Network in the social & communications category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Facebook for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, Self-Hosted and iPad apps. The best Facebook alternative is diaspora*, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Facebook are Mastodon, Minds, Gab and VK.
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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.
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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54 Vero alternativesVero 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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Comments about Threads as an Alternative to Facebook
- Threads is Free and Proprietary
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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Comments about Communities as an Alternative to Facebook
It's a great way to interact directly with people you know and the groups are excellent for community building and communication. Plus no investors, billionaires, or meddling algorithms.
- Communities is Free and Open Source
- Communities is Privacy focused
We like to think Plurk as a social network for weirdos - the cool, uncompromising and loving community for misfits we all long to have.
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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...
61 Open Source Social Network ( OSSN ) alternativesopensource-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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- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Apache HTTP Server
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74 Trust Café alternativesTrust 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.
OpenVK is an attempt to create a simple CMS that cosplays imitates old VK. Code provided here is not stable yet.
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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.