Mastodon is a decentralized social network where users can publish 500-character messages with pictures, polls, videos and more. Find your crew and reach your audience with familiar posting tools, while optionally limiting the reach of your content to reduce the chance for trolls to derail conversation. Run a node (server) for yourself individually, or host one for your friends and community. Mastodon uses the ActivityPub standard, which interoperates with other popular social media alternatives like Pixelfed.

Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralized, real-time communication, maintained by the non-profit Matrix.org Foundation. When you send a message in Matrix, it is replicated over all the servers whose users are participating in a given conversation. Even if your server goes offline, the conversation can continue uninterrupted elsewhere until it returns. This means that every server has total self-sovereignty over its users data - and anyone can choose or run their own server and participate in the wider Matrix network. Element is a client for creating and interacting with conversations communicated over the Matrix network. With Element, you can choose where your data lives. No phone number is required to sign up or use it, and there are never ads, tracking, or data mining.

Post your photos and videos to friends or the public, build albums and collections, all without being tracked by the platform or third-party analytics. Pixelfed is an ad-free photo and video sharing platform that allows users to follow people and discover new content more organically than on algorithm-based platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Based on a chronological feed instead of an algorithm, Pixelfed also aims to end the endless scrolling once you’ve caught up with your friends- although their Discover feature allows for endless discovery of new content.