Open social web platforms on FediForum Connect

bandwagon.fm

Bandwagon.fm is a Fediverse server for musicians and bands, where you can sell your music directly to fans, or stream it for free. You can also post events, such as tour dates, along with general news updates for your followers.

Bandwagon.fm runs the self-hostable Bandwagon platform.

Bluesky

Bluesky is social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

Social media is too important to be controlled by a few corporations. We’re building an open foundation for the social internet so that we can all shape its future.

Your timeline, your choice

Stay focused on your friend group, keep up-to-date on the latest news, or explore with an algorithm that learns what you like. On Bluesky, there’s a feed for that.

Control your scroll

Use powerful moderation lists, content filters, and more to control what ends up in your timeline. In the future, people and organizations will be able to use open tools to contribute even more directly to moderation.

Some of the old, all of the new

Social media used to be fun. Be your unique self and create with your friends, all while keeping tabs on what’s happening at a global scale.

What’s next is being built today

We’re building a foundation for connection that gives users a choice in their experience, creators independence from platforms, and developers the freedom to build. The future is bright.

The public deserves a thriving online commons. We’re committed to building this space and ensuring that your social network can never be bought by a single individual or organization. L Bluesky is an open network. With one account, you can access both an easy-to-use social network and a shared identity across the entire social internet.

Eurosky

Eurosky is your European home on the Atmosphere, a new world of social apps and services that all work together. It’s the future of the web.

How it works

Create your account

Pick your apps

Your account works across dozens of apps on the Atmosphere — Bluesky, Flashes, Tangled, and more. One login, everywhere.

Own your data

Your content lives on your own Personal Data Server. Switch apps anytime, take your followers with you, and stay in control.

We build shared digital infrastructure for a new generation of social apps — open, competitive, and built on European values. We’re here for the people who use these apps, and the builders who make them.

ghost.org

Turn your audience into a business

Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.

Complete control over your website and branding

Launch a custom website and tweak the design settings to perfectly match your brand and style.

Go even further with hundreds of custom themes in our marketplace, or build your own completely custom design from scratch.

Your unique brand sits front and center, while Ghost runs things in the background.

An editor built from the ground-up for professionals. Calm by design, with advanced workflows by default. No more suffering through clumsy toolbars or drag & oops. Immerse yourself in the story with an interface that’s invisible until you need it, and powerful when you do.

Rich media & dynamic cards

Modern publishing requires more than just words. Expand your story with image galleries, gifs, video, audio, products, info boxes, accordion toggles, downloadable files, bookmarks, and so much more.

Newsletters built-in

Deliver posts by email newsletter to your audience, so they’ll be in the loop whenever something new goes live. Segment your audience and send multiple different newsletters based on preference.

Transform those clicks into contacts

Until now, building an indie publication with memberships and subscriptions has been difficult and complicated.

Ghost makes it easy, with native signup forms that turn anonymous views into logged-in members.

Allow people to sign up for free, or purchase a paid subscription to support your work across monthly and yearly premium tiers.

Hello, new friends

Manage your memberships.

See who’s signing up, who’s paying, and what they’re reading, so you can get a better understanding of your core audience.

Native analytics

Understand what’s working. Detailed engagement analytics for your audience so you can understand what content is getting the most attention, and who your biggest fans are.

Offers & promotions

Entice new subscribers with offers and promotions to grow your business. Run a 30% discount for your first 100 subscribers, an 80%-off Black Friday sale, or a special promotion for a live event.

Works with everything

Social, referral programs, push notifications, social sharing, payment gateways, A/B testing, desktop editors, mobile apps, comments, recommendations. Yes.

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loops.video

Loops was built on a simple but radical idea: short-form video should serve people, not exploit them.

Loops.video is the flagship instance of Loops — an open-source, federated alternative to commercial short-video platforms, created by the team behind Pixelfed".

We built Loops because we believe the era of handing your creativity over to algorithms designed to extract attention and sell ads should be over. Your videos, your audience, your community — none of that should belong to a corporation.

Loops runs on ActivityPub, the same open protocol that powers Mastodon, Pixelfed, and the wider fediverse. That means your content can reach people across the social web, and you’re never locked in. If you ever want to move to another Loops instance — or leave entirely — you can, and we’ll help you do it.

We’re not backed by venture capital. We’re not chasing growth metrics or building toward an exit. Loops is funded by the community, built in the open, and governed by people who actually use it.

Every feature we ship is guided by one question: is this good for creators and their communities?

If the answer is no, we don’t ship it.

Our Mission

We’re reclaiming short-video sharing for humanity.

Social media should serve people, not exploit them. Loops is an ethical alternative to commercial short-video platforms — a space where creators, people, and visual artists can share their work without invasive tracking, data mining, or dark-pattern design.

As an open-source project, we believe in radical transparency and true community governance. Every feature we build is designed with user privacy and experience in mind — not advertising revenue or engagement metrics.

Our values, in plain language:

**Privacy as a fundamental right. Your content is yours. Period.
**Ethical design. No dark patterns or manipulative interfaces.
**Global accessibility. Available to anyone with internet access.
**Community ownership. Users have a voice in platform decisions.
**Sustainable growth. Building for long-term impact, not quick profit.

Why Loops Matters

The major short-video platforms have the same business model: harvest your attention, sell it to advertisers, and keep you scrolling at any cost. Creators are at the mercy of opaque algorithms, arbitrary moderation, and the constant threat of being deplatformed overnight.

Loops is different by design. Because it’s built on ActivityPub, no single company can own the network. Because it’s open-source, anyone can inspect, fork, or self-host it. And because it’s community-funded, we answer to users — not shareholders.

The fediverse already proved this model works for text and photos. Loops is here to do the same for video.

mastodon.social

Mastodon.social is the original server instance of the Mastodon open source software (OSS), created and maintained by Mastodon GmbH. The team runs this server to provide a safe landing place for anyone, especially for newcomers to the social web, and as a reference implementation of the Mastodon software. Mastodon.social takes a strong stance against content and speech that does harm.

Mastodon.social is the largest Mastodon server, and the largest ActivityPub server as well.

micro.blog

Easy blogging at your own domain name for short posts, full essays, photo blogs, and email newsletters, with a great community, cross-posting to other networks, and more.

What is Micro.blog?

Micro.blog is a unique platform that combines blog hosting with a social media-style timeline and community.

It’s a paid hosting service for personal blogs that makes it easy to publish short or long posts. Use it for short thoughts, longer essays, photos, podcasts, what books you’re reading, links to news articles, and more.

It’s a community whose members share posts via a timeline that is a safe space for conversations, free from advertising, trolling, and abuse, with community guidelines that are enforced.

Micro.blog launched in 2017 with a Kickstarter campaign supported by 3000 backers.

Micro.blog’s timeline shows posts from people you’re following. It’s always chronological. There are no trends, no ads, no boosts, and no extra clutter.

Micro.blog doesn’t have like counts or follower counts. It’s not a popularity contest. Private bookmarks instead of public likes let you reference a post or blog about it later. This focus on posts also simplifies the timeline and encourages quick replies when you want to acknowledge someone’s post. Cross-posting to Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, and more

Micro.blog can automatically copy your blog posts to many popular services. Post to your blog first, where you have more control over your content, then let Micro.blog send a copy everywhere. Start small, scale to anything

Micro.blog has so many features, you can start small with short blog posts and then grow your web site with photos, podcasts, email newsletters, and custom pages. But don’t be overwhelmed! The features you don’t need won’t get in your way.

Demo

November 2023

Read the book!

Manton Reece, the founder of micro.blog, has written a book called Indie Microblogging.

pixelfed.social

A fresh take on photo sharing. Get inspired with beautiful photos captured by people around the world.

Ad-free and privacy friendly
Open source and decentralized
Chronological feeds

Features

A few of our most popular features.

Albums: Share multiple photos to create an album post
Comments: Express yourself with threaded comments
Direct Messages: Engage in private conversations with DMs
Filters: Apply that perfect filter to your photos
Likes: Show your appreciation by giving that post a like
Stories: Share an ephemeral moment that disappears after 24h

social.coop

write.as

About

Write.as is the easiest way to share your writing on the web.

Create a journal, newsletter, space for your thoughts. Reach people with your ideas, and form new connections. Keep loved ones in the loop, free from social media. Write.as is a simple, modern, and ad-free web publishing platform.

No distractions

The editor only gives you what you need to write, and automatically saves while you type.

Start a minimal blog

No comments, spam, likes, or distractions — just your words in your own digital space.

Privacy by default

We don’t collect your personal data, so you can write freely. Publish anonymously or under any name you choose.

Open distribution

Reach readers using open web technologies: browser, RSS, and ActivityPub.

Write.as Pro

Write.as Pro includes everything we offer on the platform, plus perks like early access to new features and our friendly human support.

Custom domains

Brand your site with your own domain name.

Three or more blogs

Publish to multiple lightweight blogs / identities under a single account.

Custom themes

Make your writing space fit your personality, starting from scratch or from our showcase of themes.

Privacy settings

Join our community on Read Write.as, password-protect your blogs, or keep them completely private.

Format control

Design your site as a novel, notebook, or in the classic blog format.

Newsletters

Start a newsletter people can read from their inbox.

Static pages

Add permanent pages to your site.

Photo hosting

Add visuals to your words with simple, integrated photo hosting from Snap.as.

More publishing options

Publish via email or our command-line app, and get a discount on our desktop app.

Discounts for longer subscriptions

Get a discount for subscribing for one or five years at a time.

Team support

Reach our friendly team of humans via email during business hours.