Invidious
Social NetworksAlternative front-end to YouTube
Replaces YouTube
Best Cross-Platform Social Networks for self-hosting
The 17 best Cross-Platform social networks you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
Piped
Social NetworksAlternative front-end for YouTube
Replaces YouTube
Elk
Social NetworksProgressive web client for Mastodon and Pleroma
Replaces Twitter app
Redlib
Social NetworksAn alternative private front-end to Reddit, with its origins in
Phanpy
Social NetworksMinimalistic opinionated Fediverse ⁂ web client
Replaces Bluesky, Mastodon
OSSN
Social NetworksSocial networking software that allows you to make a social networking
Soapbox
Social NetworksCustomizable fediverse web front-end
Replaces Twitter app
Loops
Social NetworksFederated short video sharing platform
Replaces Instagram, TikTok
Libremdb
Social NetworksFree & open source IMDb front-end
Replaces IMDb
Enafore
Social NetworksFediverse client with better support for Akkoma, glitch-soc, and
Replaces Elk, Masto-FE
Khatru Pyramid
Social NetworksNostr invite relay
Replaces Mastodon, Twitter
Bloat
Social NetworksWeb client for Pleroma, Mitra and other Fediverse connected apps
Forte
Social Networksopen source ActivityPub/fediverse server
Replaces Facebook, Threads
GoToSocial
Social NetworksFast ActivityPub social network server
Replaces Akkoma, Bluesky
Masto-FE (🦥 flavour)
Social NetworksMastodon-like interface for GoToSocial, based on IceShrimp's Masto-FE
Replaces Elk, Phanpy
yarn.social
Social NetworksSelf-Hosted, Twitter™-like Decentralised micro-logging platform
AsmBB
Social NetworksFast, SQLite-powered forum engine written in ASM
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Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Cross-Platform within the social networks category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.