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Vaultwarden

Sync your passwords, using the 3rdparty Bitwarden server written in Rust.

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CryptPad

The powerful encrypted collaboration suite.

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MicroBin

A handy place to share your snippets and screenshots.

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Vikunja

Powerful task-management with nice features

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OpenTalk

Modern video-conferencing solution

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Mumble

The powerful opensource TeamSpeak competitor.

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Social

BookWyrm

Social reading and reviewing

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PeerTube

Federated YouTube alternative with P2P and live support.

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Lemmy

Experience like on Reddit, but decentralized in the Fediverse.

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Mobilizon

Federated organizing of online or offline events.

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Pixelfed

Federated platform for your photos. Compatible to eg. Mastodon and PeerTube.

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Firefish

A beautiful feature-rich server for (more) advanced Fediverse users.

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Mastodon

Next level, federated microblogging. Make your Twitter obsolete with a few clicks.

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Chat

Jabber

...also known as XMPP, is a well-known, decentralized IM and IoT solution.

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Matrix

The decentralized solution for end to end encrypted instant messaging.

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Blog
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Writefreely

Distraction free opensource blogging.

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Development
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Vaultwarden

Sync your passwords, using the 3rdparty Bitwarden server written in Rust.

Open webvault

CryptPad

The powerful encrypted collaboration suite.

Let's go!

MicroBin

A handy place to share your snippets and screenshots.

Go, use it!

Vikunja

Powerful task-management with nice features

Join

GitLab

Advanced open source Git server.

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Games

Illuna Minetest

Unique, feature-rich Minetest Servers. Who needs Minecraft?

Visit Illuna!

Mumble

The powerful opensource TeamSpeak competitor.

About this server
Vaultwarden Icon image/svg+xml Vaultwarden Icon Mathijs van Veluw Rust Logo

Vaultwarden

Sync your passwords, using the 3rdparty Bitwarden server written in Rust.

Open webvault

CryptPad

The powerful encrypted collaboration suite.

Let's go!

MicroBin

A handy place to share your snippets and screenshots.

Go, use it!

Vikunja

Powerful task-management with nice features

Join

OpenTalk

Modern video-conferencing solution

About this instance

Mumble

The powerful opensource TeamSpeak competitor.

About this server

BookWyrm

Social reading and reviewing

Join now

PeerTube

Federated YouTube alternative with P2P and live support.

Jump to our instance!

Lemmy

Experience like on Reddit, but decentralized in the Fediverse.

Join Lemmy

Mobilizon

Federated organizing of online or offline events.

Announcement

Pixelfed

Federated platform for your photos. Compatible to eg. Mastodon and PeerTube.

This way!

Firefish

A beautiful feature-rich server for (more) advanced Fediverse users.

Calckey rebrand Join now

Mastodon

Next level, federated microblogging. Make your Twitter obsolete with a few clicks.

Jump to our instance!

Jabber

...also known as XMPP, is a well-known, decentralized IM and IoT solution.

About this server

Matrix

The decentralized solution for end to end encrypted instant messaging.

About this instance
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Writefreely

Distraction free opensource blogging.

Instance
Vaultwarden Icon image/svg+xml Vaultwarden Icon Mathijs van Veluw Rust Logo

Vaultwarden

Sync your passwords, using the 3rdparty Bitwarden server written in Rust.

Open webvault

CryptPad

The powerful encrypted collaboration suite.

Let's go!

MicroBin

A handy place to share your snippets and screenshots.

Go, use it!

Vikunja

Powerful task-management with nice features

Join

GitLab

Advanced open source Git server.

To our instance!

Illuna Minetest

Unique, feature-rich Minetest Servers. Who needs Minecraft?

Visit Illuna!

Mumble

The powerful opensource TeamSpeak competitor.

About this server

..:: tchncs :: Playground ::..

Services that are currently being explored for a certain timerange. Please use the announcement button for any updates on each test. When a test ends, it is concluded whether it can stay long term. Criteria includes quality of moderation tools, active project development, general reliability of the software, but also whether people (You!) actually use it.

Bonfire

Maybe coming soon...
Testing until --.----

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Mobilizon

Federated organizing of online or offline events.

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Currently closed registrations

Services that might have gotten too costly, unreliable, have poor moderation tools or are no longer actively maintained by their developers. If you are an existing user, you might have luck requesting an account.

Plume

Young, like Medium – but federated!

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