Twitter Alternatives

Diaspora

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. Diaspora lets you sort your connections into groups called aspects. Unique to Diaspora, aspects ensure that your photos, stories and jokes are shared only with the people you intend. Diaspora makes sharing clean and easy – and this goes for privacy too.

Features:

• Decentralized
• Self-hosted in intranet or private cloud
• Support for ActivityPub
• Distributed
• Encrypted Connection
• Federated
• Fediverse
• MarkDown support
• Privacy focused
• Privacy-friendly
• Privacy Protected
• Ruby
• 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

Gab

Gab Social is an open source and fully decentralized social network powered by the Gab Platform. It is the new social network of Gab.com. This change was made to further Gab's commitment to its users trust and privacy online. And, by offering decentralization and federation, Gab further demonstrates a lack of interest in the ownership of user data. The Gab Social project is based on the Mastodon project, and is licensed under the terms and conditions of AGPL-3.0.

Features:

• Free Speech
• Ad-free
• Live topics
• Apps that Bypass Censorship
• Community based
• Anonymity
• Content creators
• Decentralized
• Information aggregator
• Live Broadcasting
• Night mode/Dark Theme
• Privacy focused
• Ruby
• Social network
• Word filtering

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

ZeroMe

ZeroMe - Social network for the distributed P2P network zeroNet Eventual common source code: https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroMe Accessible from HTTP proxy: https://bit.no.com:43110/1MeFqFfFFGQfa1J3gJyYYUvb5Lksczq7nH

Features:

• Decentralized
• Peer-To-Peer
• Python

Pleroma

Pleroma 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. The project consists of several components: Pleroma is the server implementation, and comes bundled with PleromaFE, the default frontend. Other useful utilities are also provided, such as an ActivityPub relay. For a friendly introduction to Pleroma and the Fediverse, read What is Pleroma?

Features:

• Support for ActivityPub
• Ad-free
• Decentralized
• Distributed
• Fediverse
• Social network

Nitter

A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy. Inspired by the invidio.us project. - No JavaScript or ads - All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter - Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint - Unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required) - AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted - Dark theme - Lightweight (for @nim_lang, 36KB vs 580KB from twitter.com)