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Mastodon

★ 48k

Federated microblogging server — run your own corner of the fediverse with full ownership.

Mastodon does the job of X Premium, self-hosted. It is AGPL-licensed, so a hosted fork has to publish its changes, and running it properly takes real ops work. X Premium bills $8 for it. 48k stars on GitHub.

Open-source replacement for X Premium.

Licence: AGPL-3.0
Self-hosting: Hard
The paid one costs: $8
GitHub stars: 48k

view the code →official site →

Is it actually a replacement?

We have not written a verdict on X Premium yet, so this page says what Mastodon is rather than judging what you would give up. When that product gets a page, this one will link to it.

Mastodon questions

Is Mastodon open source?

Yes — it is released under AGPL-3.0.

Can I self-host Mastodon?

Yes — we rate it hard to self-host.

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