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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 Recommended by ProleWiki?
Lemmy FOSS Reddit alternative https://join-lemmy.org Yes
Mastodon FOSS Twitter alternative https://joinmastodon.org Yes
PeerTube Free and Open Source YouTube alternative. https://joinpeertube.org
VK Russian social media http://vk.com Yes
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 Yes
Minds FOSS cryptocurrency-based social media https://www.minds.com
Panquake FOSS cryptocurrency-based social media (hasn't yet been launched)
Plaxed[2] Venezuelan social media
Gab American alt-tech microblogging, tends to attract right wingers. http://gab.com If you can stomach the right wingers, it could be a good place to promote anti-establishment ideas
Diaspora https://diasporafoundation.org
Parler Tends to attract right-wingers https://parler.com
Flote https://flote.app
Sola
Manyverse https://www.manyver.se

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