Alternative social media platforms

Alternative social media platforms aim to challenge the societal control of Western corporate 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

Name	Notes	Link
Lemmy	FOSS Reddit alternative with Lemmygrad and Hexbear as openly leftist instances.	https://join-lemmy.org
Mastodon	FOSS Twitter alternative	https://joinmastodon.org
PeerTube	FOSS YouTube alternative.	https://joinpeertube.org
Invidious	Mirrors the same content as YouTube but without ads or tracking	https://invidious.io/
VK	Russian social media	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 (yet to be launched)	https://panquake.com
Gab	Statesian alt-tech microblogging, tends to attract right wingers.	http://gab.com
Diaspora		https://diasporafoundation.org
Parler	Tends to attract right-wingers	https://parler.com
Flote		https://flote.app
Sola
Manyverse		https://www.manyver.se