Diaspora!

You can be whoever you want to be in diaspora*. Unlike some networks, you don’t have to use your real identity. You can interact with people in whatever way you choose. The only limit is your imagination. diaspora* is also Free Software, giving you liberty over how you use it. Find out more » http://diasporafoundation.org/about#freedom

Diaspora alternatives

  • Riot.im

  • Riot (formerly Vector) is an opensource interoperable app running on Web, iOS and Android. It is built around chat rooms, both public and private and provides messaging, filesharing, voice and video conferencing (beta on Android and web), integrations to tools like GitHub, Jira, Jenkins and much more soon. Vector is built on the Matrix.org open standard which provides bridges to other systems such as Slack, IRC and a lot more soon. One can use the hosted service or run their own. »

    tags: built-in-file-transfer chat-rooms decentralized encrypted-chat end-to-end-encryption
  • Mastodon

  • Mastodon is a decentralized microblogging engine, an alternative implementation of the Gnu Social project.

    tags: ad-free autopause-gifs content-warnings decentralized distributed
  • 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.

    tags: social-network social-media friends microblogging social-applications
  • Friendica

  • Friendica is a distributed social network application which runs on commodity hosting platforms - PHP/MySQL/Apache. (If you can install Drupal or Wordpress you can probably install Friendica)

    tags: decentralized distributed facebook federated microblogging
  • BuddyPress

  • Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. Install BuddyPress directly through your WordPress dashboard plugins page, or download it manually from the WordPress.org plugins repository.

    tags: social-network wordpress-plugin social-network-creator
  • Steemit

  • Steemit gives users monetary rewards for any meaningful contribution to the platform. Of these contributions the most important are:- Creating or posting content which the other users consider valuable (like)- Finding valuable content and upvoting it

    tags: chat-clients cryptocurrency forums messaging payments
  • Hubzilla

  • Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected based websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology. Hubzilla is very suitable for communities (of any size).

    tags: blogging-platform calendar-integration cms decentralized encrypted
  • Movim

  • Our philosophy is that your data are yours and you must always be in control. Movim achieves this through a complete decentralisation of users' data and accounts.

    tags: social-network social-applications xmpp social-net