This Mastodon page lists official and third-party apps for the decentralized social network, organized by platform including Android, iOS, Web, Desktop and Retro computing, with free, paid and open-source labels. It also notes a progressive web app and an open API.
Lemmy is a decentralized discussion platform for communities. Posts can be upvoted or downvoted and support threaded comments. It consists of interconnected servers and can be self-hosted via Docker or Ansible. It offers apps for iOS, Android, desktop and web and is open source.
A page on the JoinPeerTube site for finding PeerTube platforms and creating an account among a list of existing platforms. The list can be filtered by theme, category or language, and is generated from instances.joinpeertube.org.
A browser-based tool that opens ActivityPub posts and profiles in the user's preferred server. Users prepend an ActivityPub link with the service's URL, and links then open on the configured server. It has only been tested with Mastodon instances, and Threads.net does not always work. No sign-up is needed; the server is stored in localStorage.
Fediverse.Party is a guide to decentralized, autonomous networks running free open software on servers worldwide. It presents federated platforms including Friendica, Lemmy, Mastodon, PeerTube, Pleroma, Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Misskey, Pixelfed and diaspora. The site states there are no ads and no algorithms.
StreetPass is a browser extension that helps users find people on Mastodon. Mastodon users verify themselves by adding a custom link to their personal site, and StreetPass adds found links to a StreetPass list while the user browses the web. The project is open source and states that nothing leaves the device and that profile resolution is handled in the browser.
diaspora* is a decentralized social network made up of independently run servers called pods. Users choose a pod to register with and can communicate across the network. It is Free Software and organizes contacts into aspects to control who sees shared content.
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Lemmy is a decentralized discussion platform for communities. Posts can be upvoted or downvoted and support threaded comments. It consists of interconnected servers and can be self-hosted via Docker or Ansible. It offers apps for iOS, Android, desktop and web and is open source.
A page on the JoinPeerTube site for finding PeerTube platforms and creating an account among a list of existing platforms. The list can be filtered by theme, category or language, and is generated from instances.joinpeertube.org.
A browser-based tool that opens ActivityPub posts and profiles in the user's preferred server. Users prepend an ActivityPub link with the service's URL, and links then open on the configured server. It has only been tested with Mastodon instances, and Threads.net does not always work. No sign-up is needed; the server is stored in localStorage.
Fediverse.Party is a guide to decentralized, autonomous networks running free open software on servers worldwide. It presents federated platforms including Friendica, Lemmy, Mastodon, PeerTube, Pleroma, Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Misskey, Pixelfed and diaspora. The site states there are no ads and no algorithms.
StreetPass is a browser extension that helps users find people on Mastodon. Mastodon users verify themselves by adding a custom link to their personal site, and StreetPass adds found links to a StreetPass list while the user browses the web. The project is open source and states that nothing leaves the device and that profile resolution is handled in the browser.
diaspora* is a decentralized social network made up of independently run servers called pods. Users choose a pod to register with and can communicate across the network. It is Free Software and organizes contacts into aspects to control who sees shared content.
