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Jodel is a social media network that focusing on creating hyperlocal connections through community that shows you what's happening in your area in real-time. With Jodel you can share news, events, experiences and discussions with other in your area. With the help of votes, interesting topics, events and discussions rise to the top for your community in your area. Jodel

Hummingbard is an experiment in building communities on top of the Matrix network. Hummingbard has social elements like user profiles, posts, communities, sharing and so on. It is intended to be more than just a decentralized link aggregator or a microblogging platform.

Facebook is the most popular social networking platform in the world. Over 2.6 billion people across the globe use the platform to share photos, post status updates and communicate with friends. Facebook can be accessed from your browser or through their mobile applications available for Android, iOS and Blackberry.

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.

Tumblr is a an easy to use microblogging site and social network first released in 2007. On Tumblr, people can share stories via blogs and other media such as photos, GIFs, links and third party platform embeds such as Spotify playlist and tracks. All users of Tumblr can follow each other to get up-to-date content from the creators you live. There is also private publishing features which allow you to share your stories only to a select group or community. Over 500 milion people use Tumblr to share contet on the web for free.