Highschoolers looking for an alternative to Facebook/Instagram?

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  • Mastodon

    Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

    If you want an alternative to Twitter you can use Mastodon. Mastodon and all three above can federate, so you can exchange messages between them whilst using the same identity: https://joinmastodon.org/ .

  • Friendica

    Friendica Communications Platform

    Friendica (open source, dunno that much about it, thought it was dead but it is not): https://friendi.ca/ .

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • diaspora*

    A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.

    *diaspora (totally open, interoperable and looks a bit like FB, missing a groups feature): https://diasporafoundation.org/

  • Element

    A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.

    I feel like what they are looking for is basically discord, and if you want a good private open source alternative look into https://element.io

  • humhub-docker

    Alpine-based PHP-FPM and NGINX HumHub docker-container

    Followed this. https://github.com/mriedmann/humhub-docker

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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