Social Networking

Alternatives to the Big-Tech censor networks. Here are some social networks that have or are implementing decentralization.

Services & Apps

Activity Pub

A *CENTRALIZED* service to aid in partial decentralization.

Aether

A fully decentralized PUBLIC messaging platform. There are NO central servers. All messages are public. Messages disappear after 6 months unless someone chooses to save any. Groups exist. Group moderator...

Ahmia

A search engine for the TOR network

AKASHA

A decentralized social network, built with Ethereum and IPFS, to be censorship-resistant by design.

BeeChat

A South Korean decentralized messenger that can run DAPPs on bot the ETH & EOS blockchains.

crbn.social

A partially decentralized social network. You log in with your own wallet address that you created yourself, outside the scope of this social network. Use MetaMask to create your ID and connect crbn.social...

Den.Social

A centralized, but crypto-monetized social network that incentivizes you to contribute, evaluate, or engage with quality and original content inside Lairs. We strive to combat fraud, fake news, and censorshi...

Diaspora

Decentralized Social Network. Google+ was modeled after it.

Everdome

A decentralized metaverse focused on hyperrealism on Mars. Virtual realestate is for sale. As of early 2022, they're still in beta because the hardware required is far beyond consumer price points.

fbdown

Download videos from Facebook. Not a decentralized service, but is a useful tool for extracting videos from facebook to store them in a decentralized video sharing platform.

Flote

A social network that monetizes your activity with cryptocurrency. The data is stored on a block chain and the platform is censorship resistant. NEW! You can now LIVESTREAM through flote! This has now be...

Gab

Semi-decentralized social networking site with micro-blogging, running on the Mastodon decentralized network. Started as a free speech alternative as result of the massive, political censorship on the big s...

Ignite

Ignite is a decentralized social network, which allows everyone to share their mind freely via texts and media files. All the posts are distributed through Binance Smart Chain and are immutably stored distri...

Iris

Iris is like the social networking apps we're used to, but better. Accessible. No phone number or signup required. Just type in your name or alias and go! Secure. It's open source. You can verify that your...

Manyver.se

A decentralized social network that works offline too.

Mastodon

A collection of independant centralized networks that, together, share a public feed.

MeetThing.space

An open source, decentralized video conferencing system that runs in the browser. You can embed it on your own website. End to end encryption is baked in. Sponsored by Mozilla. The goal is to make it an...

Memo

A decentralized social network that stores data on the BitCoin blockchain.

Minds.com

Open sourced social network that uses a cryptocurrency. Plans to become fully decentralized. The Minds token is not a real cryptocurrency. It's an Ethereum based ERC-20 token. It's use is for a utility t...

Nostr

A Decentralized social network, messaging service, and protocol

NotABug

A decentralized social network that works like redit. It's a sample project that uses GUNDB for its decentralized database. Notabug is a decentralized P2P Reddit alternative, which also offers an improved...

Orbis

A decentralized, open source social media dapp, similar to twitter, but using decentralized technology, including user accounts. You own everything and you can't be censored. It's more for a demo of decentra...

OXEN

A blockchain with a focus on privacy. Oxen is the platform on which the privacy communications app Session is built, as well as the TOR-like privacy layer Lokinet. Lokinet is like TOR, but newer, faster, and...

pleroma.social

Pleroma is a free, federated micro-blogging social networking server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub implementations. The project consists of...

PocketNet

Decentralized social networking site. They just announced on June 18, 2020, that their next release will be 100% decentralized!

Pyro Network

PYRO NETWORK is a series of projects including but not limited to a social network, digital advertising network and blockchain gaming dApp platform which will utilize PYRO, an ERC20 and TRC20 deflationary an...

ReSee.it

@reSeeIt permanently saves any Tweet, Tweet Thread or Twitter Conversation as a high-resolution image, PDF, and permanent record utilizing the Polygon blockchain and IPFS for distributed and durable storage....

Scuttlebutt

A fully decentralized social network.

SocialX

a decentralised blockchain platform where everyone can earn cryptocurrency SOCX token rewards

Solidarity

A community based chat services running on the decentralized network called, "SOLID".

Somee Social

A social network run by sue happy tyrants that will sue anyone for reporting negative reviews. Should be called "Sue Me!"

Sphinx Chat

A chat app where you subscribe to publishers and participate in their chats. You can tip them with BitCoin by sending micropayments of Satoshis. One Satoshi is 1/100,000,000th of a BitCoin. If BitCoin were $...

Status.IM

Status is a secure messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser built with state of the art technology.

Sylo

A decentralized messenger app, a cryptocurrency, a wallet, and a decentralized storage app.

Twetch

Twetch is the decentralized network where you own your data and earn money from your content. Every interaction is archived on the blockchain. Everything is stored on a public blockchain (except your passw...

WeGo.Social

A social network, claimed to be decentralized on a blockchain, with easily accessible source to start your OWN front end on your OWN domain, accessing the same content. Moderation is by the users themselves...