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Xing is a career-oriented social network where you can champion your personal career. With Xing you can make professional contacts and discover exciting jobs, events, news and groups. Xing is used by professionals around the globe to further improve their contact network and grow their businesses and personal careers.

With Meetup you can discover the things you love and meetup with people with similar interest online or in person. People use Meetup to build a career network, share interests and ideas in communities and create personal brands and social awreness around topics. Anyone can create events with Meetup and expand their network and knowledge with the help of others. The Meetup app is avalible in your web browser and for Android and iOS.

Bark is a world-leading services marketplace with over 5 milion customers in 8 countries around the world. With Bark, people can find businesses that provide services they need. In a demand-based, digital economy for service businesses, Bark strives to connect small businesses with potential customers.

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.