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TalkOpen was a microblog built on Elgg, meant to be a Twitter alternative. It was online at talkopen.info between 31 March 2012 to early June 2012. It…

Quitter.se is an installation of GNU social (and styled with Qvitter) administered by En Kompis Kompis, a Swedish non-profit. It is a federated…

Id3nt is a microblog based on i2p (called an "eepsite"), available via the i2prouter at id3nt.i2p.

rstat.us is a microblog -- a Twitter alternative -- built to be installed in nodes. It is in the public domain (licensed Creative Commons 0).

Independent Microblogging Service is an installation of StatusNet administered by Aktivix (https://aktivix.org/). It is part of the GNU social…

Jisko was a microblog that was mirrored as both a Tor hidden service (that is, a .onion site) as well as on i2p. It ceased operation late 2014. Along…

Founded in 2014, Seen.is is an Iceland-based social networking site dedicated to user privacy. Users can create and join groups, post blogs, upload…

Galaxy was a dark web social networking site available as a Tor hidden service. It ran mid 2013 to late 2014. At its height, it had over 30000…

Galaxy2 is an elgg-based social networking site hosted on a Tor hidden service. Galaxy2 was created by Lameth after the original Galaxy shut down in…

Visibility is an eepsite -- that is, a site hosted on the Invisible Internet Project (i2p). Its main goal is to popularize i2p by offering a service…

Twister is a peer-to-peer microblogging service that can run on mobile devices or on desktop computers. Twister was created by computer scientist…

Vole is a peer-to-peer microblogging service. It uses the bittorrent protocol.

Ello is an alternative social network famous for declaring that users are not products. Ello refuses to host advertisements. It gained a lot of…

Torbook has been on and off the Dark Web (as a Tor hidden service) for several years. This version appears to have gone online on March 29, 2015. It…

Propaganda was an Elgg-based social networking site first appearing online 2015. It was announced on Galaxy2 (a Tor-based social networking site) and…

Duuit is an Elgg-based social networking site first conceptualized in 2009. It is based on many open source software packages and promises to keep…

Hatebook is an "anti-social utility" organized around "hating": members hate each other as well as most popular things. Clearly, this is a commentary…

DarkNet Social is a Tor-based social networking site built on the open source package HumHub. It was founded mid-2015.

Evergreen was a social networking system built to run on Freenet, a peer-to-peer anonymous networking system. From the Freenet page: "Evergreen is a…

Multiverse was a Tor-based social networking site built on top of BuddyPress, a social networking system for WordPress. It lasted for a large part of…

joindiaspora.org is a "pod" on the federated diaspora* network. diaspora* was founded in 2010 by four students at New York University who were…

Sone is the main microblogging service for Freenet, an anonymous, peer-to-peer networking system. Sone is important for Freenet; new Freesites are…

Voat is a media aggregator and social networking service where users can submit content such as text, images, and links. Users can vote on the…

Tokumei is a microblogging service that allows users to post without signing up for an account. According to their privacy policy, the site does not…

My Muslim Friends Book is a Facebook alternative. It is designed as a place to meet Over 1.6 billion Muslims and peaceful people from other religions.…