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A free and ethical photo sharing platform, powered by ActivityPub federation protocol. Pixelfed is open-sourced software licensed under the AGPL license.

A social media platform that lets you discover ideas and inspiration from photos pinned to topic specific boards. With Pinterest you can discover recipes, home decor ideas and style inspiration from others. The platform has over 300 million active users that share and discover ideas from each other on monthly basis.

Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking that aims to bring you closer together to the people and things you love. Take a photo with your phone and choose a filter to enhance it, and upload it Instagram in a few simple steps. Instagram is available for mobile devices including Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone, as well as a web-based version available in the web browser.

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.

An ethical social network for a brighter tomorrow. Okuna launched on the scene in 2018 with a Kickstarter campaign under the name Openbook, where they succeeded to raise over $50,000. The goal of the project is to build a free and open source social media platform that respects user privacy. Okuna is still in closed beta and provides registration via invites only.

Locals is a new social network and content platform that rewards content creators. With Locals, you can get exclusive content directly from a creator that is never censored or filtered by an algorithm. Anyone can become a support and unlock an ad-free content library of your favorite creator. The open nature of the platform allows you to connect with members who have shared values and express your own views by creating your own posts and engage in healthy and productive discussions via comments. Locals is avalible as a web app and for Android and iOS.