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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.

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.

Gab is a free social network that champions free speech, individual liberty and the free flow of information online. All thoughts and ideas are welcome at Gab.

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.