Privacy-friendly alternatives to mastodon.social
The decentralized social network sites closest to mastodon.social, with the fewest trackers first: what each homepage loads before you accept cookies. mastodon.social itself loads 0 trackers.
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Mastodon 🐘
A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.
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Bluesky
Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
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Farcaster
A decentralized social network
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Mastodon - Decentralized social media
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
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Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
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Welcome to ~tilde.club~
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Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
- Amazon SES
- Amazon Web Services
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
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Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
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Explore - SoFurry
Discover artwork, stories, music, games and more from the furry community. Join SoFurry and share your creations.
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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.
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AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
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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.
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YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Featured Content on Myspace
Featured Content on Myspace
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Hyphanet
free software
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AT Protocol
social networking protocol
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The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
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Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
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Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents
Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.
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