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Plurk is a micro-blogging social network that allow you to share short messages, links, videos and everything else with your friends. Much like Twitter, Plurk is capped out at 360 text characters per post. Each user of Plurk get's a profile page and a timeline, which lists all the updates received in chronological order, and delivered to other users who have chosen to receive them follow the creator.

Friendica is a free and open-source software decentralized social network. With Friendica you can host your own server with a unique domain while being part of the Friendica fediverse of federated services. You can also join one of the already hosted and managed servers as with any other social network. The main difference with Friendica and more common social networks like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram is the distributed nature of the software and it's use built-in support for ActivityPub. Allowing you not only to connect to a plethora of Friendica servers but also connect with other ActivityPub-protocol powered social networks like Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed and GNU Social.

Twetch is a blockchian-based social network. On Twetch, all interactions are micropayments in the form of Bitcoin BSV and the platform truley revolutionize social media interactions with its micropayments business model that does not include third-party actors taking shares off the payments. All of your content on Twetch is signed by you and stored on the blockchain, forever accessible to you.

Mastodon is a free and open source decentralized social network that is used by over 4.4 million people. At mastodon you can follow friends, discover and rally around topics, and share links, pictures, text, video, much like Twitter. The main difference with Mastodon is the decentralized nature of the software. Anyone is free to start their own Mastodon server, that automatically interconnects with all the other Mastodon servers. Since the network is community-owned and not backed by any venture capital you can be sure that your data will not be monitized and that you will have an ad-free experience.

GNU social connects you to a free network of thousands of communities that discuss daily on a variety of topics, each being part of the whole. GNU social supports both single-user and community modes and can be used in an intranet environment or as part of the wider open network. The free and open source microblogging server is written in PHP and built on-top of the OStatus standard for inter-operation between installations.

Minds is an alternative, blockchain-based social media platform. With Minds you can earn money or cryptocurrency for using the platform and interactive with other people. Tokens can be used to boost posts or crowdfund other users and their cause. Minds was to be a privacy-focused social network that is censorship resistant, and where users can interact without having their personal data harvested.