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2 self-hosted X (formerly Twitter) alternatives

X (formerly Twitter) is a social networking platform for posting and reading short public messages, media, and threaded conversations. Features include user profiles, follows, direct messages, trends, content embedding, and moderation controls.

Alternatives to X (formerly Twitter)

Elgg is a modular open source platform for building social networks and collaborative communities with plugin-based extensions.

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1.7k stars667 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Mbin is a federated content aggregator offering voting, discussion and microblogging via ActivityPub. A community-focused fork of kbin, built with PHP and Symfony.

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426 stars33 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing X (formerly Twitter) actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 2 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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