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   Mastodon

    639 likes

   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.

   151 Mastodon alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Social Network
   • Microblog

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • iPad
   • Self-Hosted
   • F-Droid
   • OpenAPK
   • Cloudron

   • Germany
   • EU

   

   

   

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   Mastodon vs Facebook Comments

   Top Positive Comment by Goldmaster · Sep 16, 2024

   No ads, no rubbish and just better than Facebook threads

   Top Negative Comment by loziniak · Jan 24, 2020

   Mastodon is more like Twitter.

   Comment by FitikWasTaken · Jan 13, 2025

   Mastodon is good, but it's too different from Facebook, it doesn't even have groups, in the Fediverse the Friendica is the closest Facebook alternative

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   • Mastodon is Free and Open SourceFacebook is Free and Proprietary
   • Mastodon is Decentralized, Privacy focused and LightweightFacebook is not according to our users
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   diaspora*

    452 likes

   Diaspora is a federated social networking service, designed to be a more privacy-aware alternative to Facebook . Share what you want, with whom you want.

   130 diaspora* alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Social Network
   • Microblog

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Online
   • BSD
   • Self-Hosted
   • Ruby

   • United States

   

   

   

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   diaspora* vs Facebook Comments

   Top Positive Comment by Yrdael · Dec 10, 2016

   So many possibilities are available. Respectful. Nice and clear. Can be self-hosted.

   Top Negative Comment by Guest · Oct 1, 2019

   group/collaboration function is absent. not a developer, so im sure i do not understand the difficulties in making this happen. but im pretty sure this is the nr 1 reason diaspora is NOT an fb alternative.

   Positive comment by richardh9935 · Jan 26, 2025

   I value privacy, security and independence. I collaborate using other tools, and I don’t expect one tool to suit all tasks.

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   • diaspora* is Free and Open SourceFacebook is Free and Proprietary
   • diaspora* is Decentralized and Privacy focusedFacebook is not according to our users
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   Minds

    331 likes

   An open-source platform for decentralized social networking. Users can monetize posts through ads or monthly support, engaging in various features such as Blogs, Videos, and secure private chats. Minds supports free speech and facilitates sharing across networks and exploring global trends.

   133 Minds alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Social Network
   • Microblog

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • iPad

   • United States

   

   

   

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   Minds vs Facebook Comments

   Top Positive Comment by Guest · Mar 19, 2017

   Open source, transparent and does not push any particular ideology.

   Top Negative Comment by David Saylor · Mar 30, 2022

   they charge money to see posts that were posted by premium members.. they have none of the features that Facebook has.. literally the only thing it has at this point in time, is a main feed wall to share posts, that's it.

   Negative comment by Yousif Adel · Mar 18, 2024

   Minds keeps sending messages to join groups or discover pages etc. It cannot be disabled and its annoying.

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   • Minds is Freemium and Open SourceFacebook is Free and Proprietary
   • Minds is Decentralized, Security-focused and Privacy focusedFacebook is not according to our users
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   Friendica

    144 likes

   Friendica is a distributed social network application. Which allow users to connect with others via their own Friendica server, but may also fully integrate contacts from other platforms including Twitter, diaspora*, Pump.io and StatusNet into their 'newsfeed'.

   125 Friendica alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Social Network
   • Microblog

   Origin

   • Australia

   Platforms

   • Online
   • BSD
   • Self-Hosted
   • PHP
   • Docker

   • Australia

   

   

   

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   Friendica vs Facebook Comments

   Top Positive Comment by arndtadler · Jul 11, 2018

   It's independent, feature rich and decentralized.

   Positive comment by Digital Sorceress · Mar 21, 2025

   Facebook like for sure but feels very unfinished.. a good start.

   Positive comment by remote man · Jan 5, 2024

   ActivityPub and open-source

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   • Friendica is Free and Open SourceFacebook is Free and Proprietary
   • Friendica is Decentralized and Privacy focusedFacebook is not according to our users
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   Pleroma

    73 likes

   Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub and OStatus implementations.

   65 Pleroma alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Social Network
   • Microblog

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Self-Hosted

   

   

   

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   Misskey

    36 likes

   A forever evolving, sophisticated microblogging platform.

   66 Misskey alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Social Network
   • Microblog

   Origin

   • Japan

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Self-Hosted

   • Japan

   

   

   

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    Gab

     258 likes

    Gab Social is an open source and fully decentralized social network powered by the Gab Platform. It is the new social network of Gab.com. This change was made to further Gab's commitment to its users trust and privacy online.

    119 Gab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application typeApplication types

    • Social Network
    • Microblog

    Origin

    • United States

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android

    • United States

    

    

    

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    Warning

    Gab is less moderated compared to other social networks and could be offensive to some people

    Gab vs Facebook Comments

    Top Positive Comment by Guest · Apr 4, 2017

    Free speech. No censoring. Say what you want, mute anyone that you don't like. GabTV so you can live broadcast. Free.

    Top Negative Comment by bird · Jul 10, 2019

    Without dabbing into politics and stuff, the architecture of Gab is more like Twitter than Facebook.

    Positive comment by Yousif Adel · Mar 21, 2024

    This platform has extremely MINIMAL Censorship on posts. Which allows for freedom of speech.

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    • Gab is Freemium and Open SourceFacebook is Free and Proprietary
    • Gab is Privacy focused and DecentralizedFacebook is not according to our users
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    GNU social

     98 likes

    GNU 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application typeApplication types

    • Social Network
    • Microblog

    Origin

    • United States

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    • United States

    

    

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    GoToSocial

     14 likes

    GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Social Network
    • Microblog

    Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • Kubernetes
    • YunoHost

    • Global

    

    

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    Threads

     12 likes

    Say more with Threads — Instagram’s text-based conversation app.

    83 Threads alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application typeApplication types

    • Social Network
    • Microblog

    Origin

    • France
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone

    • France
    • EU

    

    

    

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    Threads vs Facebook Comments

    Negative comment by Cocaine Owlbear · Jan 9, 2025

    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.

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    • Threads is Free and ProprietaryFacebook is also Free and Proprietary
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    Akkoma

     11 likes

    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

    Application typeApplication types

    • Social Network
    • Microblog

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    

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    Sharkey

     10 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Social Network
    • Microblog

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    

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