A list of free and open source front-ends and alternatives to popular services like like Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and YouTube
Here’s a list of free and open source front-ends and alternatives to popular services like Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and YouTube. This list will be updated as soon as more front-ends and alternative services will be available.
NOTE: the list is now available and actively maintained on our GitLab.

1. Nitter – Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy.
Features:
- No JavaScript or ads
- All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter
- Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
- Unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)
- Lightweight ( 60KB vs 784KB from twitter.com )
- RSS feeds
- Themes
- Mobile support (responsive design)
- AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted
2. Mastodon – Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub where users can follow friends and discover new ones. On Mastodon, users can publish anything they want: links, pictures, text, video. All Mastodon servers are interoperable as a federated network
3. Yotter – Allows you to follow and gather all the content from your favorite Twitter and YouTube accounts in a beautiful feed so you can stay up to date without compromising your privacy at all.
4. Misskey – a decentralized microblogging platform born on Earth. Since it exists within the Fediverse (a universe where various social media platforms are organized), it is mutually linked with other social media platforms.

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1. Bibliogram – Bibliogram is a website that takes data from Instagram’s public profile views and puts it into a friendlier page that loads faster, gives downloadable images, eliminates ads, generates RSS feeds, and doesn’t urge you to sign up.
2. Pixelfed – Pixelfed is an image sharing platform, an ethical alternative to centralized platforms like Instagram.

1. Teddit – Teddit is a free and open source alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy.
Features:
- No JavaScript or ads
- All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Reddit
- Prevents Reddit from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
- Lightweight (teddit frontpage: ~30 HTTP requests with ~270 KB of data downloaded vs. Reddit frontpage: ~190 HTTP requests with ~24 MB)
2. Lemmy – Reddit alternative. Lemmy allows you to subscribe to forums you’re interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.
3. Lobste.rs – Reddit alternative. Lobsters is a computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion, launched on July 3rd, 2012.
4. Raddle – Reddit alternative. It’s been said Raddle is a community for outsiders, malcontents and wayward dreamers.
5. Aether – Peer-to-peer ephemeral public communities. Open source, self-governing communities with auditable moderation and mod elections
6. Ruqqus – Open source Reddit Alternative
7. SaidIt – Open Source Reddit clone.
8. Libreddit – An alternative private front-end to Reddit

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1. Invidious – Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
Features:
- Copylefted libre software (AGPLv3+ licensed)
- Audio-only mode (and no need to keep window open on mobile)
- Lightweight (the homepage is ~4 KB compressed)
- Tools for managing subscriptions:
- Only show unseen videos
- Only show latest (or latest unseen) video from each channel
- Delivers notifications from all subscribed channels
- Automatically redirect homepage to feed
- Import subscriptions from YouTube
- Dark mode
- Embed support
- Set default player options (speed, quality, autoplay, loop)
- Support for Reddit comments in place of YouTube comments
- Import/Export subscriptions, watch history, preferences
- Developer API
- Does not use any of the official YouTube APIs
- Does not require JavaScript to play videos
- No need to create a Google account to save subscriptions
- No ads
- No CoC
- No CLA
- Multilingual (translated into many languages)
2. FreeTube – FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows, Mac & Linux thanks to Electron.
3. LBRY – Alternative to YouTube. LBRY is a place where users can find great videos, music, ebooks, and more: imagine a vast digital library that is available on all of your devices. But under the hood, LBRY is many components working together.
4. Odysee – Video platform backed by the creators of LBRY and uses the LBRY blockchain protocol
5. Yotter – Allows you to follow and gather all the content from your favorite Twitter and YouTube accounts in a beautiful feed so you can stay up to date without compromising your privacy at all.
6. PeerTube –

- Vutuv – a business network which is hosted at https://www.vutuv.de. Think of it as a free, fast and secure open-source alternative for LinkedIn or XING

1. Radicle – open-source alternative to GitHub. Peer-to-peer, removes the dependency for a centralized server.