Mastodon is free, open-source server software for running a social network where people follow friends and share text, links, pictures and videos. It is for people or groups who want to host their own social network that can also talk to other Mastodon and ActivityPub servers.
Bluesky is a social app for posting short messages and following people, built on an open decentralized protocol. It is for anyone who wants a Twitter-style network, and the code is public so others can run forks.
App · GitHub · The app is open; the main network is run by one company
Misskey is a free, open social media platform where people share short posts and follow others. It is built to be federated, so it can connect with other servers that run the same kind of software.
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Friendica is a social network where you can post, follow and talk with people, including users on other federated services like Mastodon and Diaspora. It is for people who want a social network not controlled by a single company.
Runs on your own server · GitHub
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Planning something for an alternative to Twitter / X? See what exists first, so you can reuse parts or explain what's different. Paste this into any AI assistant:
Read the list of open-source alternatives at https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/microblogging.json. Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
Here is a list of open-source alternatives to Twitter / X, from Open Source Everything (CC BY-SA 4.0):
- Mastodon (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon; replaces fully): Mastodon is free, open-source server software for running a social network where people follow friends and share text, links, pictures and videos. It is for people or groups who want to host their own social network that can also talk to other Mastodon and ActivityPub servers.
- Bluesky (MIT, https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app; replaces fully): Bluesky is a social app for posting short messages and following people, built on an open decentralized protocol. It is for anyone who wants a Twitter-style network, and the code is public so others can run forks.
- Misskey (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey; replaces fully): Misskey is a free, open social media platform where people share short posts and follow others. It is built to be federated, so it can connect with other servers that run the same kind of software.
- Friendica (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/friendica/friendica; replaces fully): Friendica is a social network where you can post, follow and talk with people, including users on other federated services like Mastodon and Diaspora. It is for people who want a social network not controlled by a single company.
Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
