Pleroma Alternatives

Pleroma is described as 'Free, federated social networking server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub and OStatus implementations' and is a popular Social Network in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Pleroma for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, Self-Hosted and iPad apps. The best Pleroma alternative is Mastodon, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pleroma are Bluesky, X, diaspora* and Facebook.

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  1. Akkoma icon
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    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...

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    • Free
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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Sharkey icon
     7 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...

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  3. Soapbox.pub icon
     10 likes

    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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  4. GoToSocial icon
     11 likes

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

    36 GoToSocial alternatives

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    • Kubernetes
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    Light-weight, easy to setup

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    • GoToSocial is Free and Open SourcePleroma is also Free and Open Source
  5. Manyverse icon
     17 likes

    Manyverse is a social network app using the SSB protocol (Secure Scuttlebutt) where you can write posts and share with friends nearby or over the internet. It's different from mainstream social networks because your data is yours, it lives on your phone, not in the cloud.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • F-Droid
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6. Identi.ca icon
     56 likes

    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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  7. Enafore icon
     4 likes

    Maintained fork of Pinafore. A somewhat unstable fediverse client with better support for Akkoma, glitch-soc, and Iceshrimp instances.

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    • Online
     
  8. Mitra icon
     2 likes

    Federated micro-blogging platform with a content subscription service.

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  9. Takesama icon
     2 likes

    A modern Mastodon and Misskey client.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10. Takahe icon
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    While it’s always nice to have more Fediverse software, we have some specific features and goals that we think makes Takahe a great choice of server software:

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  11. hollo icon
     2 likes

    Hollo is a federated single-user microblogging software powered by Fedify. Although it is for single-user, it is designed to be federated through ActivityPub, which means that you can follow and be followed by other users from other instances, even from other software that...

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  12. Trust Café icon
     8 likes

    Trust 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.

    74 Trust Café alternatives

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    • Free
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    • Online
     
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