Free Mastodon Alternatives
Mastodon is described as 'decentralized microblogging engine.
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- Free and open-source.
- Decentralized, no worries about a single company controlling your communications'. There are more than 50 alternatives to Mastodon for various platforms. The best alternative is Diaspora, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Mastodon are Twitter (Free), Tumblr (Free), PixelFed (Free, Open Source) and Minds (Freemium, Open Source).
- Diaspora is a federated social networking service, designed to be a more privacy-aware alternative to Facebook . View 125 alternatives to Diaspora
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Online
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- Ruby
JohnFastman Diaspora is more like a Facebook alternative; Mastodon is a Twitter alternative. Both are open-source and non-profit and aren't based on exploiting people's privacy for money-making/selling you out to adverisers or passing on everything about you (contacts, opinions, likes, location, interests...) to government authorities. Facebook does do this. - Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 280-character messages called "tweets". View 149 alternatives to TwitterNo screenshots yet
- Free
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- Windows S
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Blackberry 10
- Kindle Fire
RemovedUser Twitter is a centralized, propertiary service, while Mastodon is free software - Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people. View 126 alternatives to Tumblr
- Free
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Pixelfed is an image sharing platform with focus on Privacy, Safety and Security, an ethical alternative to centralized platforms like Instagram. Federated, Ad-Free, No algorithms, No 3rd party analytics or tracking. Can run on your own server. View 132 alternatives to PixelFed
- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Cloudron
- We are a free and open-source platform to launch your digital brand, social network and mobile app. We are also a social network ourselves. View 144 alternatives to Minds
- Freemium • Open Source
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- A social network that champions free speech, individual liberty and the free flow of information online. View 150 alternatives to Gab
Warning
Gab is less moderated compared to other social networks and could be offensive to some people
- Freemium • Open Source
- Online
- Android
- Self-Hosted
Gab can connect to the rest of the Mastodon network anyway! It's like Twitter but even easier to use and user-friendly. You don't need an account to look at stuff. And of course, free speech. - 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. View 17 alternatives to Pleroma
- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Free online social media and network service connecting people with friends, family, classmates and more. View 197 alternatives to Facebook
- Free
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- Windows S
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- KaiOS
JohnFastman Facebook makes money by using people's private information for their profit. Your privacy - everyone you know, message, what you like and discuss - is the basis of their money-making. You are the product. Additionally, FB likes can be used to guess with high accuracy people's political preferences. Facebook have also experimented with manipulating peoples' emotions using the news feed. Mastodon does NONE of this; it's free, non-profit and open source.Mastodon: Open-source, decentralized/federated, can even be done p2p... Facebook: closed-source/proprietary, centralized, owned and operated by a company that gets raging hard-ons whenever there's a chance for them to molest your privacy and sell your data to anyone from shops to downright evil governments... If these two have any similarity beyond that they're both on the internet, then I'm guessing a submarine and a jetfighter are also similar. - GNU social is a continuation of the StatusNet project. It is social communication software for both public and private communications. View 95 alternatives to GNU social
Discontinued
Git repo seems abandoned, last update was in 2017.
- Free • Open Source
- Self-Hosted
- Distributed social network. With focus on decentralization, privacy, interoperability. View 122 alternatives to Friendica
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- PHP