farcaster.xyz
Farcaster
Who runs Farcaster, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest decentralized social network alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- joinmastodon.org
Measured from Farcaster’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Farcaster01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Farcaster
Farcaster farcaster.xyz
A decentralized social network
Wikidata: decentralized social network protocol
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Farcaster tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 12 alternatives below has fewer; 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Farcaster
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Farcaster, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Mastodon - Decentralized social media
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
Close - 02
Mastodon.online
A newer server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.
Very close - 03
Bluesky
Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
Close - 04 x.com Top 100
American social networking service founded in 2006
Very close - 05
social networking site operated by Meta Platforms
Very close - 06
Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
Very close - 07
Chinese microblogging website
Very close - 08 twitter.com Top 100
American social networking service founded in 2006
Very close - 09
AT Protocol
social networking protocol
Very close - 10
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 11
social networking service for neighborhoods
Very close - 12
TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
Very close - 13 Cara cara.app
artist social media app
Very close - 14
Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
Very close - 15
IMVU - #1 3D Avatar Social App, Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality, VR, Avatars, Free 3D Chat
IMVU's Official Website. IMVU is a 3D Avatar Social App that allows users to explore thousands of Virtual Worlds or Metaverse, create 3D Avatars, enjoy 3D Chats, meet people from all over the world in virtual settings, and spread the power of friendship.
Very close - 16
design website
Very close - 17
Make Everyone Shine
Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.
Very close - 18
Russian social networking service
Very close - 19
LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Very close - 20
Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Farcaster’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Farcaster uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Farcaster adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 27 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Farcaster’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5779aaf9da0588f-HAM
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:_spf.mx.cloudflare.net -all
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS brian.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=bdYxpoEvbJWVeGVGC1ZM_yn3pat2onw6H16gkgkEP5Q
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace · not on farcaster.xyz 13/20
- Atlassian · not on farcaster.xyz 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on farcaster.xyz 5/20
- Zendesk · not on farcaster.xyz 5/20
- Apple Business · not on farcaster.xyz 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on farcaster.xyz 5/20
- Adobe · not on farcaster.xyz 4/20
- DocuSign · not on farcaster.xyz 4/20
- Fastly · not on farcaster.xyz 3/20
- Next.js · not on farcaster.xyz 3/20
- React · not on farcaster.xyz 3/20
- Slack · not on farcaster.xyz 3/20
- Stripe · not on farcaster.xyz 3/20
- nginx · not on farcaster.xyz 3/20
- Cloudflare 3/20