Threads is described as 'Say more with Threads — Instagram’s text-based conversation app' and is a Social Network in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Threads for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, Self-Hosted and iPad apps. The best Threads alternative is Mastodon, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Threads are Bluesky, X, diaspora* and Facebook.
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.
An open social network that gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience.
Experience global interaction with public conversations, real-time news updates, live audio Spaces, streaming video, exclusive content monetization, and niche Communities.
Most users think X is a great Threads alternative.
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.
Diaspora is more like a clone of Myspace or Facebook than Twitter/Threads.
A comprehensive social network for connecting with friends and family, sharing photos, videos, and updates, organizing events, forming groups, and accessing business pages. Offers messaging, live streaming, privacy settings, and a marketplace on both web and mobile platforms.
Not an equivalent social media app.
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.
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'.
Not an equivalent social media app. Friendica is supposed to be more like Facebook.
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.
VK (originally VKontakte) is a largest social network service from Europe. Available in many languages and highly popular particularly among Russian-speaking users around the world, especially in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Belarus, and Israel.
Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected based websites featuring a decentralised identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology. Hubzilla is very suitable for communities (of any size).
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.
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Twitter has more users and is not an echo-chamber. No real reason to use Threads.
Threads also has massive privacy concerns, so much so that I have heard that is why it is not allowed in the EU at the moment.
Not that Twitter is a privacy app, but it doesn't have as bad of a track record as Meta.