Mastodon is arguably the best free and open-source social media platform, using the same shared (federated) network as Flipboard, Metaâ s Threads, and other platforms. Mastodon 4.3 is now rolling ...

Social media has long been dominated by companies that operate through surveillance, censorship, and the whims of a few people in charge. Yet different possibilities are emerging: in recent years, a ...

Tech leaders, including an early Facebook investor, launch a $30M campaign for independent social media. Free Our Feeds aims to counter billionaire control with the open-source AT Protocol. The ...

April 29, 2025, CAMBRIDGE – The Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the open-sourcing of Frankly, a groundbreaking ...

Free Our Feeds, which includes support from the Mozilla Foundation, is working with Bluesky to make sure the open source social media landscape is robust — even if it means more competition for ...

The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development.