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We've compiled a list of 65 free and paid alternatives to GNU social. The primary competitors include Twitter, Facebook. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between GNU social and Diaspora, Mastodon, Minds. Also you can look at other similar options here: Social Software.
We've compiled a list of 65 free and paid alternatives to GNU social. The primary competitors include Twitter, Facebook. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between GNU social and Diaspora, Mastodon, Minds. Also you can look at other similar options here: Social Software.
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Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and...
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Diaspora is a federated social networking service, designed to be a more privacy-aware alternative...
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The open-source, encrypted social network that expands your reach for using it.
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A social network that champions free speech, individual liberty and the free flow of information...
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VK is a social network that unites people all over the world and helps them communicate comfortably...
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Distributed social network. With focus on decentralization, privacy, interoperability.
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Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected based websites featuring a...
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Ello is a simple, beautiful, ad-free social network created by a small group of artists and...
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GNU social is communication software for both public and private communications.
GNU social is communication software for both public and private communications.
GNU social is a continuation of the 
StatusNet project. It is social communication software for both public and private communications. It is widely supported and has a large userbase. It is already used by the Free Software Foundation, and Richard Stallman himself.
The history of GNU social
GNU social was started in 2010 as a spin-off from the GNU FM project that was created to power music communities such as Libre.fm. In 2013, Evan Prodromou continued to develop social software for the web as Pump.io, and kindly donated all of his work to the Free Software Foundation, so we merged the existing project with StatusNet and another project called FreeSocial. And here we are.
What's next?
Thanks to Bytemark, GNU social has a new home in the UK, with resources to open a series of public GNU social servers for new users, including private servers dedicated to GNU social development.
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