The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development.

The trio is part of the growing open social web, also known as the fediverse, powered by the same ActivityPub protocol used by X alternative Mastodon. The latter saw increased signups and use after the company formerly known as Twitter sold to Elon Musk in October 2022 and during the X exodus that followed the U.S. presidential election.

In the months and years following that sale, open source and decentralized apps like Mastodon and Bluesky (which uses the newer AT Protocol), have continued to grow their user bases, as people sought alternatives to centralized social media apps controlled by billionaires like Musk and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (30 children)

Okay so

BlueSky = Twitter
Loops = TikTok
PixelFed = Instagram
Sup = What's App
Lemmy = Reddit

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 64 points 5 days ago (23 children)

~~BlueSky~~ Mastodon = Twitter
Loops = TikTok
PixelFed = Instagram
Sup = What's App
Lemmy = Reddit

[–] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (17 children)

What can replace Facebook?

And how can anyone convince all their friends, family, and random people the follow, to jump platform?

[–] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

Diaspora is the fediverse version of Facebook. It hasn't taken off quite like lemmy or mastodon and it's much older, but still seems to be in active development.

Convincing family is hard, I have a lot of them moved over to Linux already, but they don't want to quit Facebook :(

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