Open Source Self-Hosted Pixelfed Alternatives

There are many alternatives to Pixelfed as a self-hosted solution if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Self-Hosted alternative is Mastodon. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Pixelfed and nine of them are open source and available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Self-Hosted alternatives to Pixelfed are Sharkey, GoToSocial, Wafrn and Soapbox.pub.

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  1. Mastodon icon

    Mastodon

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    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.

    133 Mastodon alternatives

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    • F-Droid
    • Cloudron
    • Android Tablet
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    • Almost everyone thinks Mastodon is a great Pixelfed alternative.

    • Mastodon is the most popular Web-based, Android, iPhone & iPad alternative to Pixelfed.

    • Mastodon is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Pixelfed.

    • Mastodon is Free and Open SourcePixelfed is also Free and Open Source
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    Sharkey

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    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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  4. GoToSocial icon

    GoToSocial

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

    35 GoToSocial alternatives

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    • Windows
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    • Online
    • Android
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    • Kubernetes
    • YunoHost
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    • GoToSocial is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Pixelfed.

    • GoToSocial is Free and Open SourcePixelfed is also Free and Open Source
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    Wafrn

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    Wafrn is a social network inspired by tumblr, that also can connect with other wafrn instances, or with mastodon, pleroma, firefish and other platforms that use activitypub.

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    • UNIX Web Browser
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • iPhone
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  6. Soapbox.pub icon

    Soapbox.pub

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    Soapbox 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...

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    Versia

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    A simple, extensible federated protocol for building useful applications. Formerly known as Lysand.

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  10. Ktistec icon

    Ktistec

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    Ktistec is an ActivityPub server. It is intended for individual users, not communities of users, although support for additional users will be added in the future. It is designed to have few runtime dependencies -- for example, it uses SQLite as its database, instead of...

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    piclog

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    Hi! Here you can share your JPEG pictures with your friends. You can customize the CSS of your profile, and even add a little widget to your site! The pictures are heavily compressed to keep the file size small.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
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