Social Media

Mastodon is decentralized social networking: thousands of independently run servers federate into one shared timeline, with chronological feeds, no ad targeting and no single company deciding what you see. You pick a server, and you can move with your followers if you outgrow it. Choosing an instance is a real decision, the network is smaller […]

Pixelfed is what Instagram would look like without Meta: federated, chronological, no ads, no engagement metrics unless you want them, and open source top to bottom. Your photo archive can live on a server you trust. The network is young and smaller, mobile apps are maturing, and instance choice matters here too. A genuinely pleasant […]

Bluesky built the AT Protocol around the idea that your identity and data should be portable, with custom feeds you choose yourself. It feels like early Twitter without the ads, and the protocol vision is genuinely interesting. Today one company runs the main infrastructure and the monetization story is still being written, so the independence […]