10Centuries started out as a simple blogging platform and has evolved over the years to include support for podcasts, action lists, social interactions, and more.

A blogging platform with a social network built in.

A directory/cross index that lets you find your friends by nickname across several social networks. Twitter, App.net, Micro.blog, Mastodon and website URL are indexed.

Essay on, why social media works and what it will take to replace social media with something else.

News, Reviews, and Technical Support. BleepingComputer.com is a premier destination for computer users of all skill levels to learn how to use and receive support for their computer. Additional focus on computer security and privacy.

A community driven site socially networked around extensive forums.

Friendica is a software to create a distributed social network. It is part of the federation of servers that are running with Friendica. Decentralized social network similar to Facebook in look and feel. Has excellent syndication abilities.

Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology. Demo link on that site.

A social network that is over 20 years old based on a community weblog model. Metafilter is human moderated and currently owned by a librarian. I suggest reading the FAQ.

It's hard to categorize this one. It's a tiny social network for the slo-web.

A noncommercial Old Reddit-like alternative run by anarchists for anarchists and anti-authoritarians. It runs under Postmill which is a free and open-source link aggregator and wiki. It also has a Tor hidden service available.

A federated social network. Posts are displayed in a grid, post format can be both short micro blog type or long form posts like a blog. Open source so there may be multiple instances.

A micro blogging type social network for posting your current status. The service lets you customize your status index page. Also has a forum for longer posts.

Site shows memebership, usage, and platorm adoption statistics of many "Federated" social networks operating on several platforms.

A 40 year old articulate virtual community. Paid membership, no advertising, no data mining and real names.

Reclaiming the Internet. A community with the goal of reclaiming the internet and Web for non-commercial use. To continue the 1.0 Web that was fun, interesting, quirky, informative, expressive and not overrun with ads and stuff to buy.

Site includes: Discord discussion community, link directory, web zine, radio, podcasts, webring you can join and more.