Alternative social media platforms

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Alternative social media platforms aim to challenge the societal control of Big Tech social media, such as Facebook and Twitter.

These platforms tend to either be based in countries outside of the imperial core or are open source alternatives which tend to avoid any jurisdiction at all.

Alternative social media[1]
Name Notes Link
Lemmy FOSS Reddit alternative https://join-lemmy.org
Mastodon FOSS Twitter alternative https://joinmastodon.org
PeerTube FOSS YouTube alternative https://joinpeertube.org
VK Russian social media, and an app. http://vk.com
Telegram Russian chat app, considered social media because some chats are used as interactive "feeds" (like ASB News) https://telegram.org/
Weibo Chinese social media http://weibo.com
Minds FOSS cryptocurrency-based social media https://www.minds.com
Panquake FOSS cryptocurrency-based social media (hasn't yet been launched)
Plaxed Venezuelan social media
Gab American alt-tech microblogging http://gab.com
Diaspora https://diasporafoundation.org
Parler https://parler.com
Flote https://flote.app
Sola
Manyverse https://www.manyver.se

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