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.
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Smithereen AlternativesSocial Networks and other similar apps like Smithereen
Smithereen is described as 'Federated, ActivityPub-compatible social network server with friends, walls, and groups' and is a Social Network in the social & communications category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Smithereen for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Android, iPhone and Android Tablet apps. The best Smithereen alternative is diaspora*, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Smithereen are Facebook, Pleroma, Friendica and VK.
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- 118 diaspora* alternatives
152 Facebook alternativesA 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.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Tor
- KaiOS
55 Pleroma alternativesPleroma 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.
114 Friendica alternativesFriendica 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'.
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97 VK alternativesVK (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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Kindle Fire
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66 Hubzilla alternativesHubzilla 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).
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Online
- Self-Hosted
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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
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- Discontinued
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- Self-Hosted
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Self-Hosted
- Kubernetes
- YunoHost
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...
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...
Decentralized social network on the fediverse. Usable for both #microblogging and full length #blog posts. Editing both content and replies is supported.
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