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Tools, standards, and platforms that make it easier to de-centralize the internet, and social media in particular. These services often collaborate on and depend upon open protocols like AT Protocol and ActivityPub. They usually give users their choice back, through features like data portability and agency over their algorithm feeds.

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Sifa ID

The link you share when someone asks what you do.

PublicSpaces Conference

PublicSpaces is een netwerk van publieke organisaties die samen strijden voor een internet gebaseerd op publieke waarden.

ActivityPub tech spec

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format.

Bluesky Feeds catalog

Choose your own timeline! Feeds built by the community help you find content you love.

Understanding Recommenders

Understanding Recommenders is a research-driven effort to demystify recommender systems and their impact on society.

Location Data on AT Protocol

Fund. We're bringing location data to ATProto, with initial funding by Peter Wang's Skyseed Fund.

Skyseed Fund

Bluesky created a green field with 25M users. We're the first fund exclusively focused on delighting them.

FediDB

The Complete Fediverse Directory & Analytics Platform

AT Protocol Community Fund

An AT Protocol community fund to support infrastructure, open source code development, and community initiatives like events and meetups.

Pixelfed

Pixelfed

Canada 🇨🇦

Open source ActivityPub-based Instagram competitor

Eurosky Portal

A simple interface to help people navigate the Atmosphere - a new generation of apps & services on the web developed by an ever-growing number of startups, developers & organisations.

PeerTube

PeerTube

France 🇫🇷

A French non-profit alternative to Big Tech's video platforms

Flashes

Flashes is a photo/video-sharing app designed for the Bluesky social network.

Semble

Semble

Cambridge, MA

Follow your peers' research trails.

Communalytic

Communalytic is a no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media

A New Social

A New Social

United States of America 🇺🇸

Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.

Standard.site

Standard.site provides shared lexicons for long-form publishing on AT Protocol. Making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere.

eurosky

eurosky

Europe

Eurosky is building the future of social media—open, pluralistic, and made in Europe.

Bluesky

Bluesky

Seattle

We’re building an open foundation for the social internet so that we can all shape its future.

Graze.social

A social media platform that allows users to create and customize their own personalized feeds, including community feeds, hobby-specific feeds, and more.

Public Hubs (PubHubs)

Public Hubs (PubHubs)

Nijmegen, Netherlands

A public-owned social network for public institutions (municipalities, schools, libraries, hospitals, museums, etc) to engage communities without using Big Tech, and instead using infrastructure based on public values

Fediverse bylines

Today we’re launching a new feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their articles are being shared.

Mastodon

A federated social media platform alternative to Twitter (X)

FediPlan

FediPlan is an open source application (source code) built for scheduling your messages with Mastodon or Pleroma (2.7+).

eupolicy.social

eupolicy.social is a Mastodon instance for the EU policy bubble. Its aim is to provide a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in the field of EU policy and to contribute to the health, diversity and growth of the fediverse.

Civic Mastodon server roundup

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

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