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Alternative social media platforms aim to challenge the societal control of Western corporate social media, such as Facebook and Twitter.

These platforms tend to either be based in countries outside of the imperial core or are open source alternatives which tend to avoid any jurisdiction at all.

Alternative social media^[1]
Name	Notes	Link
Lemmy	FOSS Reddit alternative with Lemmygrad and Hexbear as openly leftist instances.	https://join-lemmy.org
Mastodon	FOSS Twitter alternative	https://joinmastodon.org
PeerTube	FOSS YouTube alternative.	https://joinpeertube.org
Invidious	FOSS YouTube alternative. Mirrors the same content as YouTube but without ads or tracking	https://invidious.io/
VK	Russian social media	http://vk.com
Telegram	Russian chat app, considered social media because some chats are used as interactive feeds (like ASB News)	https://telegram.org/
Weibo	Chinese social media	http://weibo.com
Minds	FOSS cryptocurrency-based social media	https://www.minds.com
Panquake	FOSS cryptocurrency-based social media (yet to be launched)	https://panquake.com
Gab	Statesian alt-tech microblogging, tends to attract right wingers.	http://gab.com
Diaspora		https://diasporafoundation.org
Parler	Tends to attract right-wingers	https://parler.com
Flote		https://flote.app
Sola
Manyverse		https://www.manyver.se

Western social media websites and alternatives
Western	Frontends	Chinese	Russian	FOSS	Communist instances
discord.com			telegram.org	signal.org
facebook.com			vk.com
reddit.com		tieba.baidu.com	pikabu.ru	join-lemmy.org	lemmygrad.ml hexbear.net
tiktok.com	proxitok.pabloferreiro.es	douyin.com
twitter.com	nitter.io.lol	weibo.com		joinmastodon.org	toots.matapacos.dog
youtube.com	invidious.io materialio.us	bilibili.tv	rutube.ru	joinpeertube.org	tankie.tube

References

↑ Jamie Redman (2021-01-09). "Big Tech's Freedom of Speech Purge Pushes People to Censorship-Resistant Blockchain Social Media"

[1] Jamie Redman (2021-01-09). "Big Tech's Freedom of Speech Purge Pushes People to Censorship-Resistant Blockchain Social Media"

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-'''Alternative social media platforms''' aim to challenge the societal control of Western corporate [[social media]], such as [[Facebook, Inc.|Facebook]] and [[Twitter]].
+'''Alternative social media platforms''' aim to challenge the societal control of [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|Western]] [[Bourgeoisie|corporate]] [[social media]], such as [[Facebook, Inc.|Facebook]] and [[Twitter]].
 These platforms tend to either be based in countries outside of the [[imperial core]] or are open source alternatives which tend to avoid any jurisdiction at all.
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+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Western social media websites and alternatives
+!Western
+!Frontends
+!Chinese
+!Russian
+!FOSS
+!Communist instances
+|-
+|[https://discord.com discord.com]
+|
+|
+|[https://telegram.org telegram.org]
+|[https://signal.org signal.org]
+|
+|-
+|[https://facebook.com facebook.com]
+|
+|
+|[https://vk.com vk.com]
+|
+|
+|-
+|[https://reddit.com reddit.com]
+|
+|[https://tieba.baidu.com tieba.baidu.com]
+|[https://pikabu.ru pikabu.ru]
+|[https://join-lemmy.org join-lemmy.org]
+|[https://lemmygrad.ml lemmygrad.ml][https://hexbear.net hexbear.net]
+|-
+|[https://tiktok.com tiktok.com]
+|[https://proxitok.pabloferreiro.es/ proxitok.pabloferreiro.es]
+|[https://douyin.com douyin.com]
+|
+|
+|
+|-
+|[https://twitter.com twitter.com]
+|[https://nitter.io.lol nitter.io.lol]
+|[https://weibo.com weibo.com]
+|
+|[https://joinmastodon.org joinmastodon.org]
+|[https://toots.matapacos.dog toots.matapacos.dog]
+|-
+|[https://youtube.com youtube.com]
+|[https://invidious.io invidious.io][https://materialio.us/ materialio.us]
+|[https://bilibili.tv bilibili.tv]
+|[https://rutube.ru rutube.ru]
+|[https://joinpeertube.org joinpeertube.org]
+|[https://tankie.tube tankie.tube]
 |}