Federated, open-source, ad-free, and fully under your control. Build or join a community that reflects your values — no algorithms, no corporate overlords, no attention economy. No ads, no tracking, no addictive algorithms — your feed is built by you. Join our server at piefed.social or host your own for full control. Self-host or pick an instance aligned with your values. Federated freedom. Posts on one server can be seen, shared, and discussed by users on any other server, too. Everything runs on open standards (ActivityPub), creating a diverse and billionaire-resistant ecosystem.

Smart Link Aggregation Automatically collect and rank links shared across your social networks based on popularity within your trusted circle. Trending Links See what’s trending across the open social web in real-time. Open to everyone, not just people with Sill accounts. Bookmarks Save links to your bookmarks for easy access and organization. Custom Lists & Feeds Track links from your favorite custom lists and feeds on Bluesky or Mastodon. Daily Digest Get a daily curated email or RSS feed of the most popular links from your network, delivered at your preferred time.

What is Streamplace? Streamplace is the video layer for decentralized social networks. We’re building open-source infrastructure around bringing high-quality video experiences to the AT Protocol, designed around user sovereignty and content authenticity. Open source single-binary node software Get up and running with one command. No complex configuration or deep video expertise required. Perfect for hackers and builders. User sovereignty by design All video content is cryptographically signed by creators and respects their consent preferences. Built on the same public key infrastructure as decentralized social networks.

Product and service listings for the Open Social Web supporting decentralized protocols such as ActivityPub and ATProtocol

Lemmy is a discussion platform that is truly free. You choose which communities to be a part of and which posts to see. You can use extensive blocking and filtering tools to sort and curate your feed. You are in control and not a corporation, so there is no tracking, advertising nor secret algorithms. And you can follow the development in the open, or get your own ideas included. Upvotes and Threaded Comments Posts can be upvoted or downvoted. The most interesting ones rise to the top. You can choose between different sort options. Threaded let you follow discussions easily. All the important features from Reddit are available.

Leaflet is a fun, flexible, social publishing tool. Delightful publishing to connect with your community, whether you’re writing a blog, newsletter, or secret third thing. Powerful Publishing Tools Easily write, manage posts, and track subscriptions Reach your readers Send updates via Email, Bluesky, and the Atmosphere Leverage a social ecosystem with millions of users Express yourself Free custom themes and custom domains Features include: fast web app rich block editor comments checklists footnotes subpages canvas shareable view and edit links social quotes custom themes custom domains

All-in-One Managed Service Tailored for large organisations We handle everything - from infrastructure, security, backups, updates, moderation, legal takedowns. Perfect for organisations that want fast access to their own Mastodon server with guaranteed compliance and low resource investment. Including Hosting, Moderation and Support Single Service Designed for organisations that want to stay in control You stay in control. You can decide which services you want to run yourself, and where to get support from Mastodon.

FediHost makes it quick, easy, and affordable to get on the Fediverse with no technical knowledge required. Get started for just $4/month with a 7-day risk-free trial. Tutorials & Blog Extensive documentation and guides are available to help you understand and navigate the Fediverse. Check out the FediHost Blog and video tutorials to get started. Manage Multiple Services FediHost provides one interface to manage all your Fediverse instances letting you share resources across instances so you save as you grow.

Emissary is a programmable Fediverse server that can be customized to fit many different needs. The server itself provides many low-level features such as ActivityPub connectivity, online sales and subscriptions, media management, geolocation services, access controls, and more. Additional applications can be installed on Emissary from a variety of sources. These lightweight packages are built with only HTML + JSON, and simply configure the various capabilities of the compiled Emissary server that runs them.

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Bonfire Bonfire is a federated, open-source social platform designed to give communities real autonomy and participatory governance over their digital spaces. Bonfire Social 1.0 was released at the end of 2025. Bonfire isn’t just another federated social app, it’s a modular framework for building digital spaces governed by communities. Bonfire Social is the first “flavour” to reach 1.0, and is a starting point for communities who want a space of their own, that’s locally governed and fully customisable, yet connected to the wider fediverse.

NodeBB is next generation community forum software. It’s powerful, mobile-ready and easy to use. Looking for a way to engage your followers, away from the noise and chaos of today’s “social” sites? NodeBB takes the spirit and energy of the great online forum communities of old, and empowers it with powerful, mobile-ready and easy to use software. Establish your own platform for real conversations. Start today!

Surf, a browser for the open social web, gives people, publishers and creators a simple way to search for the conversations they care about or create feeds to build community around anything—from events to podcasts. Use Surf to see what people are saying on issues of the day, trends or topics you care about. Create Surf Feeds for Your Community People, publishers, organizations and communities can design a custom feed for themselves or others that share an interest. It takes just a few steps: Select +Create a Feed in the Surf Sidebar, name your feed, add a community hashtag and add sources like social profiles from Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon, YouTube channels, podcasts and RSS feeds. Your Surf feed can be shared on the web, serving as a resource for others or a dedicated space for conversations around any topic. Get started at https://surf.social.

Loops was built on a simple but radical idea: short-form video should serve people, not exploit them. Loops.video is the flagship instance of Loops — an open-source, federated alternative to commercial short-video platforms, created by the team behind Pixelfed". We built Loops because we believe the era of handing your creativity over to algorithms designed to extract attention and sell ads should be over. Your videos, your audience, your community — none of that should belong to a corporation.

About Write.as is the easiest way to share your writing on the web. Create a journal, newsletter, space for your thoughts. Reach people with your ideas, and form new connections. Keep loved ones in the loop, free from social media. Write.as is a simple, modern, and ad-free web pub­lish­ing platform. No distractions The editor only gives you what you need to write, and auto­ma­ti­cally saves while you type. Start a minimal blog No comments, spam, likes, or dis­trac­tions — just your words in your own digital space.

Bounce is an open social web migration tool. It lets you migrate your account from one decentralized social network to another, and still keep all of your followers, along with some of the people you follow. Which networks are supported? Bounce currently supports migrating from Bluesky to Mastodon or Pixelfed, and from Mastodon to Bluesky. We hope to add support for Threads, micro.blog, and more in the future. What gets migrated, exactly? Right now, only your profile, followers, and some follows. The existing posts on the accounts you migrate from and to will stay the same; only new posts going forward will get bridged back to the old account.

Bluesky is the social app built for better conversations. Find your people, follow what you care about, and have fun online again — without ads or engagement traps. Join the moment See what people are talking about right now. From breaking news to big cultural moments, jump into conversations as they unfold and be part of what’s happening. Explore feeds Choose from thousands of community-built feeds covering news, art, pets, science, fandom, investing, culture, and everything in between. Stay updated with people you care about in your Following feed, or dive into new perspectives and trends in Discover.

The ActivityPub plugin adds ActivityPub support to WordPress, the open source publishing platform that powers over 43% of websites. Once installed, any WordPress site can join the Fediverse directly from its own domain. With the plugin enabled, each site gets a site-wide federated profile and each author gets an individual federated profile. This lets people follow either a publication or a specific author from ActivityPub-compatible platforms. The plugin also includes dedicated blocks for showing Fediverse followers, reactions, and follow buttons in your site layout. Site owners can keep using familiar WordPress workflows, themes, and plugins while participating in open social networking.

The world’s first federated app store Discover New Apps AltStore is an app store designed for sideloading. Every app in AltStore gets a beautifully generated store page with detailed information to make sideloading fun and easy. Browse apps from trusted developers, or add additional “sources” to further increase your options. Self-Published Apps Anyone can distribute their apps with AltStore. All you need is to make a “source”, which you can do by hosting a text file with basic information about your apps. Users can then enter your source URL in AltStore and your apps will automatically appear.

Awarded in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 5, 2026, at the Public Spaces Conference. Organized by New_ Public, PublicSpaces and Waag Futurelab, with jury members Audrey Tang, Johannes Ernst, Melanie Bartos, Mike Masnick, Robin Berjon and Laurens Hof and supported by Bluesky PBC and ZDF.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 5, 2026, at the Public Spaces Conference.