App.net Alternatives

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 280-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS or mobile device apps. In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens—from breaking world news to updates from friends.

Features:

• Threaded Conversations
• Hashtags
• IFTTT integration
• Private messaging
• Progressive Web App
• Real-time
• Trends
• Minimalistic UI
• Social network

Mastodon

Mastodon is a decentralized microblogging engine. FEATURES - Free and open-source. - Decentralized, no worries about a single company controlling your communications. - Supports the standardized ActivityPub protocol - Fully interoperable with https://alternativeto .

Features:

• Decentralized
• Federated
• Content warnings
• Support for ActivityPub
• Ad-free
• Fediverse
• Community based
• Delete and re-draft
• Federated Cloud
• Pinnable topics
• Privacy-friendly
• Privacy settings
• Security & Privacy
• Trigger warning
• Support for ActivityPub
• Autopause gifs
• Communities
• Decentralisation
• Distributed
• Free Speech
• IFTTT integration
• Open API
• Ruby
• Server Moderation
• Social network
• Two factor authentication

Minds

We are a free and open-source platform to launch your digital brand, social network and mobile app. We are also a social network ourselves. It is a global social network of social networks. Available in either decentralized or centralized options. Meaning its source code is available publicly for reviews and contributions. • Really free speech. Zero censorship. One of the co-founder Bill Ottman is an information activist. • Blogs, Channel, Groups, Videos • Monetizing options.

Features:

• Free Speech
• Anticensorship
• Encrypted chat
• Security focused
• Freedom
• Privacy focused
• Anticensorship
• Blogging
• Content discovery
• Decentralized
• Encryption
• Gamification
• Podcast Hosting
• Point System
• Privacy Protected
• Share screenshots
• Secure Chat
• Security & Privacy
• Social network
• Tokenization

Friendica

Friendica 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'. In addition to these two way connections, users can also use Friendica as a publishing platform to post content to Google+, Google Buzz, WordPress, Tumblr, GNU-social, and Libertree. The list of supported networks is growing.

Features:

• Federated
• Commodity hosting support
• Community events
• Decentralized
• Diaspora integration
• FLOSS
• Group Messaging
• Privacy focused
• Rsvp
• Twitter integration
• Distributed
• Events
• Group collaboration
• Php
• Social network

GNU social

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. It is already used by the Free Software Foundation, and Richard Stallman himself. The history of GNU social GNU social was started in 2010 as a spin-off from the GNU FM project that was created to power music communities such as Libre.fm.

Features:

• Decentralized
• Ad-free
• Free Speech
• Social network
• Php

Known

Known is a simple platform for publishing words, pictures, podcasts and more to a site that you control. Choose to share it on social networks like Twitter and Facebook, or extend it to integrate with the software you already use. Self-hosted software is free and opensource, hosting service is paid.

Features:

• Blogging
• Decentralized
• Encrypted chat
• Group chat
• Integrated Chat
• Photo Sharing
• Public Status Page
• Publish on Twitter
• Publishing
• Social Bookmarking
• Social Media Publishing
• Social network

Choqok

Choqok - KDE Micro-Blogging Client The name comes from an ancient Persian word, means Sparrow! Currently supports Twitter.com and Identi.ca services. It currently features: * Supporting Twitter.com micro-blogging service. * Supporting Identi.ca micro-blogging service. (Using its Twitter compatible API) * Supporting self hosted StatusNet websites. (Using their Twitter compatible API) * Supporting Friends, @Reply, Favorite and Public time-lines.

Features:

• Built-in URL shortening
• Multiple Account support
• Twitter

Ello

Ello is a simple, beautiful, ad-free social network created by a small group of artists and designers. We originally built Ello as a private social network. Over time, so many people wanted to join Ello that we built a public version of Ello for everyone to use.

Features:

• IFTTT integration
• Privacy Protected
• Social network

Yammer

Yammer is revolutionizing internal corporate communications by bringing together all of a company’s employees inside a private and secure enterprise social network. Although Yammer is as easy to use as consumer products like Facebook or Twitter, it’s enterprise-grade software is built from the ground up to drive business objectives. Yammer is free for your whole company, enabling users to communicate, collaborate, and share more easily and efficiently than ever before.