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Rumble
Rumble
Rumble.com is an open video platform that sits on a rights management technology. This rights management technology is a machine learning DRM algorithm called Rumble Rank, which automatically scales verification, clearance, discovery and licensing for social (UGC) video. In less than 3 years, the company is now a top 50 video destination according to ComScore. Due to legal concerns (the Viacom lawsuit), YouTube paved way for rights management companies to manage videos on their platform; known as Multi Channel Networks (MCN's). By giving up rights management, YouTube is unable to algorithmically scale rights management, they can't provide agnostic distribution, and they can't allow publishers to take part in video embed revenue. ITunes, Netflix, and Amazon all have basic DRM's (Digital Rights Management) for long form content owned by a few studios, but no one has solved DRM for billions of videos now being produced by the masses.Starting Price: Free -
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Locals
Locals.com
Control your Destiny. Locals is for independent creators. Publish your content, engage with your supporters and make money from subscriptions. We empower creators to be independent. Creators should be their own publishers. We provide the tools creators need to publish, operate, and grow all in one place. Create a stable revenue stream via subscription and grow your business with Locals. Build your community. Control your destiny. Make money from subscriptions. Own your data. Leverage your network. Create a community under your brand. Set the tone with your guidelines and build your own page. Locals will provide all the tools needed to manage your community with ease. With a set tier system, creating a subscription is simple; just set a price. Supporters will have access to your exclusive content and participate in the community.Starting Price: Free -
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Mastodon
Mastodon
Follow friends and discover new ones among more than 4.4M people. Publish anything you want: links, pictures, text, video. All on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free. Mastodon isn’t a single website like Twitter or Facebook, it's a network of thousands of communities operated by different organizations and individuals that provide a seamless social media experience. Mastodon comes with effective anti-abuse tools to help protect yourself. Thanks to the network's spread out and independent nature there are more moderators who you can approach for personal help, and communities with strict codes of conduct. You have 500 characters. You can adjust the thumbnails of your pictures with focal points. You can use custom emojis, hide things behind spoiler warnings and choose who sees a given post. Messed it up? You can delete & redraft for quick corrections. Without an incentive to sell you things, Mastodon allows you to consume content you enjoy uninterrupted.Starting Price: Free -
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Parler
Parler
Parler is a free speech social network. Users on Parler can express themselves without censorship. Speak freely. Parler is the premier social media app animated by the First Amendment. Freedom of thought, association, expression, plus security and privacy are all made a reality on the Parler app. On Parler you decide what and with whom you want to share your experiences and point of view. Join the only social app where the power to speak freely lies in your hands, where you decide what you want to see. Enjoy your online home. Parler offers the tools you need to share your thoughts and experiences with a community of your choosing. Be part of an inspiring and welcoming social network where your voice matters. What’s New, Receive push notifications, Add a reply to other replies (comments); Upgraded text translations; Improved image performance; Add emojis to responses and more!Starting Price: Free -
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Bluesky
Bluesky Social
Bluesky is social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again. Stay focused on your friend group, keep up-to-date on the latest news, or explore with an algorithm that learns what you like. On Bluesky, there's a feed for that. Use powerful moderation lists, content filters, and more to control what ends up in your timeline. In the future, people and organizations will be able to use open tools to contribute even more directly to moderation. The web. Email. RSS feeds. XMPP chats. What all these technologies had in common is they allowed people to freely interact and create content, without a single intermediary. We‘re building the AT Protocol, a new foundation for social networking which gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience.Starting Price: Free -
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MeWe
MeWe
MeWe has an honorable business model where members are customers to serve and respect, not data to be shared or sold. You have full control over your newsfeeds and the order of how posts appear. We do not manipulate, filter, or change the order of your newsfeeds. MeWe is committed to creating a safe place for all walks of life to communicate and connect without fear of intimidation or bullying. MeWe empowers you and enriches your world. It’s the fun, uplifting social media experience in the spirit of trust, control and love. MeWe provides an uplifting social media experience in the spirit of human camaraderie.Starting Price: Free -
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Solcial
Solcial
Solcial is a decentralized social network built for privacy and freedom of speech. It gives users the ability to interact with each other without fear of censorship and allows content creators to monetize their work fairly at market value. Solcial allows creators to easily mint and sell their own SPL tokens allowing their followers to invest directly in them. On Solcial the user-token represents the brand value of creators and also gives the ability to offer exclusivity through the ability to establish “Tiered Feeds”. By allowing creators to monetize through their token, Solcial has coined the “invest-for-subscription” model: when you buy the token of someone, you not only invest in them, but you also subscribe to their private posts, only visible to their token holders. These subscribers are tiered based on the number of tokens they hold.Starting Price: 0 -
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diaspora*
The diaspora* Project
The online social world where you are in control. diaspora* is based on three key philosophies: Decentralization, freedom, and privacy. Instead of everyone’s data being held on huge central servers owned by a large organization, diaspora* exists on independently run servers (“pods”) all over the world. You choose which pod to register with, and you can then connect seamlessly with the diaspora* community worldwide. You can be whoever you want to be in diaspora*. Unlike some networks, you don’t have to use your real identity. You can interact with people in whatever way you choose. The only limit is your imagination. diaspora* is also Free Software, giving you liberty over how you use it. In diaspora* you own your data. You don’t sign over rights to a corporation or other interest who could use it. In addition, you choose who sees what you share, using Aspects. With diaspora*, your friends, your habits, and your content is your business ... not ours!Starting Price: Free -
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Kuaishou
Kuaishou
Kuaishou is a short video social platform for ordinary people to record and share their lives. It is committed to becoming the world's most obsessed company that creates value for customers. The mission is to "embrace every kind of life", discover what you need, give full play to your strengths, and continue to improve everyone's unique sense of happiness. Kuaishou is the pioneer and leader of the short video industry and the world's second largest live broadcast e-commerce platform. In Kuaishou, users can record their own life through short videos and photos, and share their joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys with others; they can also interact with fans in real time in the live broadcast room to understand each other and relieve loneliness. Users of different interests and different industries gather in Kuaishou, and the platform has formed a real, beautiful, diverse and useful content ecology.Starting Price: Free -
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Triller
Triller
Triller is an entertainment and music platform. A social video editor built for a community of creators. Where you can show the world who you are by capturing amazing videos and sharing them in seconds. Whether you need to add music to video, add filters and effects, share your videos to Triller and other platforms, or discover the next big star, Triller is the video app you need! Express yourself and connect with the content you love. Create amazing music videos and follow trending challenges. Be creative and lead the next dance trend or challenge and become the most viewed.Starting Price: Free -
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Twetch
Twetch
The decentralized social network where you own your data and earn money for your content. We don't sell your data and never will. Twetch empowers people to own their content, earn from it, and take it with them wherever they go. You see it every day. Censorship, trolling, fake news, pesky ads. You provide all the value for the social media you use. They make billions, you get nothing in return. It's time to take back your data. On Twetch, interactions are micropayments. All of your content on Twetch is signed by you and stored on the blockchain, so it is always accessible to you. What if you could message someone without ever having to give the information you write to a third party like Twitter or Facebook? If your messages were completely private, and only accessible to those you give permission, your data would truly be yours. Introducing Twetch Chat, fully encrypted messaging using Bitcoin, AES, and ECIES. Featuring in-app peer2peer payments and group chat support.Starting Price: Free -
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Sphinx
Sphinx
Decentralize social media, and take back your data. End to end encrypted chat with no central server using the bitcoin lightning network. Pay your favorite content creators with bitcoin. Buy using bitcoin on lightning. Sphinx lets you talk and pay. Consume your content without big brother watching. All messages are sent encrypted over the lightning network. There are no central servers to collect your private data. No one can remove you from the network. You can send bitcoin over lightning instantly to anyone in the world. Pick the right node for you and install the Sphinx app in few simple steps. Invite new users, and connect with existing ones. Send and receive satoshis, instantly and with a smile!Starting Price: $2 one-time -
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Ecency
Ecency
Decentralized, rewarding, true ownership social network. Blockchain-based social network, join-us and earn various digital tokens, reward others and build a rewarding community. Ecency is the next generation social network for Web 3.0. Blockchain technology gives you a real free speech, without any censorship or banning. Only you control your own account, content and communities. Hive blockchain has many social, gaming and financial apps that you can access with a single account you own. Access your social network account and content from any other 3rd party apps in decentralized way. Join and be part of the building team on Web 3.0. Everything that we build is blockchain-based and open source. We welcome tech talents, developers, creators and entrepreneurs. The social network with real free speech experience on your mobile phone or desktop. Blockchain's powerful benefits now always under your fingertips.Starting Price: Free -
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Liketu
Liketu
Liketu, pronounced as "like to", is a photo sharing website built on the HIVE blockchain. It allow creators to share photos and receive HIVE rewards from upvotes received. Add pay-walls to premium images for an extra level of monetization. Curators can also earn for upvoting content using their acquired Hive Power.Starting Price: Free -
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Pleroma
Pleroma
Start using Pleroma by joining an existing Pleroma instance or check the installation guide to setting up your own server. Pleroma is a microblogging server software that can federate (= exchange messages with) other servers that support the same federation standards (OStatus and ActivityPub). What that means is that you can host a server for yourself or your friends and stay in control of your online identity, but still exchange messages with people on larger servers. Pleroma will federate with all servers that implement either OStatus or ActivityPub, like GNU Social, Friendica, Hubzilla and Mastodon.Starting Price: Free -
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SoMee Social
SoMee Social
SoMee Social is a modern social media platform that guarantees free speech. SoMee Social is blockchain-based and decentralized, and users can earn tokens for sharing. Imagine a social media platform that was built to resist top down censorship and control. A platform that encourages and makes profitable those that speak and spread truth, while allowing the community to down vote propaganda and lies. This platform also includes a lot of cool technology designed to EMPOWER people to fully express themselves. But most importantly this is a platform made by the people, for the people!Starting Price: Free -
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Planetary
Planetary
Planetary puts people first. Our algorithms are open source. You can choose which one you want to use and read the code to understand how it works. Planetary for a truly distributed social network that doesn't keep your data in the cloud. Your data is hosted by your friends through cooperative mutual aid. Planetary is all about communities. Share what you love with like-minded people and make the network feel more like you. Planetary and secure scuttlebutt are peer-to-peer but they are not cryptocurrency or blockchain projects. The protocol puts people not money at its center. We work on mutual aid, democratic self-governance, and cooperation. Planetary is building a social media commons. That includes the right of our users to see, modify, and redistribute the application and its underlying code.Starting Price: Free -
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cohost
anti software software club
cohost is a new social media platform built from the ground up by a small team of developers and designers who like sharing things on the internet. cohost will never sell your data, sell ads, or sell the company to anyone who might change these policies to make a quick buck. All your follows’ posts, in the order they were posted, in a timeline that goes vertically. clear and effective moderation done by humans. For now, you can give us a few bucks a month to help us keep the lights on. soon we’ll let you take tips and sell subscriptions to help you keep the lights on too. We think existing platforms have some good ideas, but no one’s managed to create one without profound flaws. we’re borrowing liberally from other sites, but we want to build cohost into something that works well and serves its users rather than just another clone.Starting Price: Free -
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Plurk
Plurk
A really snazzy site that allows you to showcase the events that make up your life. Plurk is an easy way to chronicle and share the things you do, the way you feel, and all the other things in between that make up your life, with the people close to you. It's instant gratification, instant self-indulgence, instant celebrity, instantly YOU. Share your life stream, live your life.Starting Price: Free -
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Amino
Amino
Amino has authentic mobile Communities for whatever you're into. Chat, blogs, favorites, polls and more. Meet likeminded people around the world. Amino Creator Manager allows anyone to create a Community. Custom design features including logo, theme, background image and more. World-class curation, moderation and promotion tools.Starting Price: Free -
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BeReal
BeReal
BeReal is the simplest photo sharing app to share once a day your real life in photo with friends. Every day at a different time, everyone captures a photo within 2 minutes. Capture and post in time to discover what your Friends are up to. A new and unique way to discover who your friends really are in their daily life. The special BeReal camera is designed to take both a selfie and a frontal photo simultaneously. Share your BeReal publicly and discover what other people are doing around you. Some days, the BeReal comes with a unique challenge. Comment on your friend's BeReal and chat with all their friends. React on your friend's BeReal with a RealMoji, your own emojis representation. See where your friends are in the world when they post their BeReal. Access your previous BeReal in an archive. See your friends right on your Home Screen when they react to your BeReal with a widget.Starting Price: Free -
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Lemmy
Lemmy
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. Lemmy is and will always remain free, open source software, using the strong copyleft AGPL License. Made using some of the fastest frameworks and tools, including Rust, Actix, Diesel, Inferno, and Typescript. Each server can set its own moderation policy, to help foster a healthy environment where all can feel comfortable contributing. With Lemmy, you can easily host your own server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.Starting Price: Free -
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SPILL
SPILL
SPILL is visual conversation at the speed of culture. Express your thoughts by easily combining text with image, video, GIF and more.Starting Price: Free -
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WireMin
WireMin
It’s time to ditch the Web 2.0 social networks! WireMin is a decentralized social network that enables complete freedom of expression and privacy protection. The WireMin Network is purely based on people’s devices and does not rely on any cloud services of giant companies. It provides a superior secure messaging experience by not only concealing your message content with end-to-end encryption but also eliminating the possibility of censorship, surveillance, or data collection. On WireMin, you can experience a new level of privacy and security: 1/ Anonymous ID creation: NO email or phone number required 2/ E2E-encrypted for DMs, images, files, voice message, voice call 3/ Feed space for blog posting 4/ Chat space with unlimited members 5/ Secret group 6/ Crypto transfer while chatting 7/ Fast & Unlimited file transfer Not just an instant messenger or social network. On WireMin, free speech and privacy are inevitable, not choices.Starting Price: $0 -
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Kwai
Kwai
Kwai is a social network for creating and sharing short videos. With Kwai, you can connect with people from all over the world, discover trends, and share your favorite tastes. The Kwai community is constantly growing, here you can find millions of videos with incredible content, selected especially for you. In Kwai, there is a place for everyone, to have fun swiping, watching, and sharing videos. On Kwai, you can watch amazing dance choreography, listen to cool music, learn to cook, watch makeup tutorials, and much more. Here, too, you can find plenty of entertainment content, including comedy, sports, video games, fashion, movies, and more. In addition, on our platform, you will be able to stay informed with the latest news, see information about strange events, and discover interesting things that are happening around you. There are so many creators within Kwai showing off their talents and sharing their stories. You can follow them and interact with them.Starting Price: Free -
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Lemon8
ByteDance
Lemon8, developed by ByteDance, is a lifestyle-focused social media platform blending elements of Instagram and Pinterest. It offers users a space to share and discover content related to fashion, beauty, food, travel, wellness, and more, with a focus on high-quality visuals and personalized content recommendations. Equipped with integrated editing tools, Lemon8 enables polished, engaging posts while its algorithm curates content tailored to user interests. Popular for its aesthetic-driven community, Lemon8 fosters inspiration and creativity, making it a go-to platform for lifestyle enthusiasts.Starting Price: Free -
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Primal
Primal.net
Primal is a platform designed to help users discover and engage with the most compelling content on Nostr, a decentralized social network. It offers features such as trending notes, featured authors, and a variety of topics, including technology, philosophy, and sports. Primal also provides premium tiers, like the Legend tier, which offers benefits such as lifetime premium subscription and increased media storage for users who make significant contributions. The platform emphasizes user control, allowing management of account settings and network preferences.Starting Price: Free -
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Instagram Reels
Meta
Instagram Reels is a short-form video feature within Instagram that allows users and brands to create and share engaging vertical videos up to 90 seconds long. Equipped with a variety of creative tools, including audio effects, AR filters, text overlays, and speed controls, Reels makes content creation simple and dynamic. Integrated into Instagram’s ecosystem, it provides strong discoverability through the Reels tab, Explore page, and algorithm-driven recommendations, helping creators and brands reach new audiences. Designed to compete with TikTok, Reels is ideal for viral trends, tutorials, storytelling, and product showcases. Whether for entertainment, education, or marketing, Instagram Reels offers a powerful way to connect with viewers in a visually compelling format.Starting Price: Free -
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TikTok Lite
TikTok
TikTok Lite is a compact, high-performance variant of the main TikTok app, designed specifically for users with low-end devices, limited data plans, or unstable network conditions. It delivers the core TikTok experience, personalized video feeds, trending music, and social sharing, while minimizing data consumption and storage use. At just around 13 MB in size, the app ensures fast installation and smooth operation even on devices with constrained memory. TikTok Lite significantly reduces data usage, saving up to 20% compared to the full app, and supports offline playback by caching videos for viewing when connectivity is poor. Its streamlined interface provides essential features, feeds, content discovery, profile interaction, and basic sharing, while excluding advanced functionalities like uploading content. It offers users a fast, stable, and data-efficient way to stay connected with global content trends.Starting Price: Free -
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UpScrolled
UpScrolled
UpScrolled is a mobile-first social media platform committed to giving users freedom of expression without opaque algorithmic control. It rejects shadowbanning, algorithmic favoritism, and hidden censorship, instead providing a transparent chronological feed for users they follow and a “discover” feed with light ranking based on engagement and recency. UpScrolled prohibits data monetization, user data is never sold, and enforces moderation only through clear rules by human review, not by hidden manipulation of reach. The app supports the core social features users expect; image and video posts of various lengths, stories or short-form content, chatting, following others, and regional trending topics. It encourages authentic, creator-centric sharing and calls itself an “alternative to Meta, X, or TikTok,” positioning itself as a platform for marginalized voices, grassroots activists, creators, small businesses, and everyday users seeking a fairer online space.Starting Price: Free
