Find your best fit on the open social web.

TouchGrass

• Fediverse
• ATProto
• Everyday social
• Create one account
• Growing

A calm social home for chosen friends, circles, posts, photos, and albums, with cautious connections toward the Fediverse and ATProto.

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Mastodon

• Fediverse
• Short posts
• Choose a server
• Established

Mature short-form social networking where you choose a community-run server and follow people across the Fediverse.

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Pixelfed

• Fediverse
• Photos & art
• Choose a server
• Established

Photo-first sharing with profiles, albums, and a familiar visual feed on independently run servers.

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PeerTube

• Fediverse
• Video & live
• Choose a server
• Established

Federated video hosting and livestreaming for viewers, creators, organizations, and people who want control of the server.

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Lemmy

• Fediverse
• Links & discussions
• Choose a server
• Established

Topic communities, threaded conversations, and community voting across a network of independent servers.

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Mbin

• Fediverse
• Links & discussions
• Choose a server
• Growing

A community platform that combines link discussions and microblogging in one federated interface.

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Friendica

• Fediverse
• Everyday social
• Choose a server
• Established

A classic friends-and-profiles social network with rich posts, groups, events, and broad Fediverse compatibility.

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Hubzilla

• Fediverse
• Everyday social
• Choose a server
• Established

Feature-rich community channels with fine audience controls and a nomadic identity that can move between compatible hubs.

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Misskey

• Fediverse
• Short posts
• Choose a server
• Established

Expressive, feature-rich social networking with reactions, custom timelines, drives, and lively community culture.

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Akkoma

• Fediverse
• Short posts
• Choose a server
• Established

A lightweight, expressive microblogging server with flexible timelines and deep customization for smaller communities.

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GoToSocial

• Fediverse
• Short posts
• Self-host
• Established

A lean ActivityPub server for people who want to self-host and use their choice of compatible web or mobile client.

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BookWyrm

• Fediverse
• Books & culture
• Choose a server
• Established

Social reading for tracking books, writing reviews, sharing reading goals, and discovering books through people.

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WriteFreely

• Fediverse
• Longform & publishing
• Choose a server
• Established

Minimal, distraction-free longform publishing that can federate essays and blogs to readers across the Fediverse.

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Mobilizon

• Fediverse
• Events
• Choose a server
• Established

Community-run events and groups without making a global social feed the center of the experience.

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Owncast

• Fediverse
• Video & live
• Self-host
• Established

Self-hosted livestreaming with chat for creators who want their channel, audience, and infrastructure under their control.

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Funkwhale

• Fediverse
• Audio & podcasts
• Choose a server
• Established

Federated audio libraries for music and podcasts, with shared collections and independent hosting.

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Castopod

• Fediverse
• Audio & podcasts
• Create one account
• Established

Podcast hosting, publishing, analytics, and social interaction built for podcasters who want to own their distribution.

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Bonfire

• Fediverse
• Community spaces
• Self-host
• Growing

Modular social spaces for communities that want local governance, boundaries, circles, and wider Fediverse connections.

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NeoDB

• Fediverse
• ATProto
• Books & culture
• Create one account
• Established

A social catalog for books, films, music, podcasts, and games, with reviews and connections across open networks.

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Ghost

• Fediverse
• Longform & publishing
• Create one account
• Established

Professional websites, newsletters, memberships, and longform publishing with a built-in social-web reader and ActivityPub support.

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WordPress + ActivityPub

• Fediverse
• Longform & publishing
• Create one account
• Established

The official ActivityPub plugin turns a WordPress site and its authors into followable Fediverse profiles.

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Micro.blog

• Fediverse
• Longform & publishing
• Create one account
• Established

Own-domain blogging for short notes, essays, photos, and newsletters, paired with a friendly hosted community.

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NodeBB

• Fediverse
• Links & discussions
• Create one account
• Established

Modern forum software for durable, topic-based communities, with ActivityPub bringing conversations beyond one forum.

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Bluesky

• ATProto
• Short posts
• Create one account
• Established

Large-scale public conversation with portable ATProto identity, user-selectable feeds, and a simple hosted starting point.

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Blacksky

• ATProto
• Short posts
• Create one account
• Growing

Community-led social infrastructure, feeds, moderation, and hosting designed around Black community power and governance.

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Tangled

• ATProto
• Code collaboration
• Create one account
• Growing

Social code collaboration where repositories, issues, pull requests, trust, and developer identity live on ATProto.

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Smoke Signal

• ATProto
• Events
• Create one account
• Growing

Open event discovery, publishing, and RSVPs that travel with an existing ATProto identity.

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OpenMeet

• ATProto
• Events
• Create one account
• Growing

Groups and events with privacy controls, no ads, and portable ATProto identities for community organizers.

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Frontpage

• ATProto
• Links & discussions
• Create one account
• Growing

A federated link aggregator for sharing useful pages and discussing them with the wider ATProto community.

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Leaflet

• ATProto
• Longform & publishing
• Create one account
• Growing

Social publishing for documents, blogs, and newsletters stored with an ATProto identity and readable across compatible apps.

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Streamplace

• ATProto
• Video & live
• Create one account
• Growing

Open-source livestreaming on ATProto, combining live channels with portable identity and social discovery.

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Skylight

• ATProto
• Video & live
• Mobile-first
• Growing

A mobile, video-first ATProto app with user-controlled feeds and compatibility with an existing Bluesky identity.

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Flashes

• ATProto
• Photos & art
• Mobile-first
• Growing

A photo- and video-focused mobile experience that presents compatible ATProto posts as a visual social network.

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PinkSea

• ATProto
• Photos & art
• Create one account
• Growing

A playful drawing and oekaki community where artwork is published as portable ATProto records.

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Popfeed

• ATProto
• Books & culture
• Create one account
• Growing

A social catalog for tracking, reviewing, and discussing films, shows, books, games, and music with an ATProto account.

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Semble

• ATProto
• Knowledge & research
• Create one account
• Growing

Collaborative web bookmarks and knowledge maps for collecting sources, connecting ideas, and sharing research trails.

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Sill

• Fediverse
• ATProto
• Links & discussions
• Create one account
• Growing

A calm, ranked view of the most useful links shared by people you follow on Mastodon and Bluesky.

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Offprint

• ATProto
• Longform & publishing
• Create one account
• Growing

Longform publications, branded sites, and newsletters whose articles and identity are stored on ATProto.

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