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Diaspora is a privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network developed by the Diaspora Foundation. The social network is built up of distributed pods, that can be self-hosted by anyone. However, to join the Dispora, you can simply chose an already hosted pod on the network. Members can share and discuss content with others, and label content with hashtags, allowing them to easily follow certain topics that they are interested in. Diaspora also supports @mentions and re-shares of posts, features which all adds up to an intricate communication and sharing system, distributed across the globe.

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.

Mix is a content discovery platform by the creators of StumbleUpon.

Bunklist is a web application that provides collections of website bookmarks saved by users. With Bunklist you can collect and discover useful websites through the use of lists and topics. Bunklist is the perfect place to to create, discuss, and discover list of inspiring, fun, useful, and informative websites.

Hacker News is a social news website initially built by YC co-founder Paul Graham as a demonstration of Arc, a new programming language he'd been working on. Today Hacker News is a go to source for news and discussion surrounding computer science and entrepreneurship, used by millions of people monthly. The site facilitates deeper nested discussion about technology, science and is used by startups and people promoting new ideas in ShowHN section.