Pixelfed
Open-source federated photo sharing platform built on ActivityPub. Choose a European instance or self-host for full data sovereignty. No ads, no algorithms, no data mining. Major EU-hosted instances include pixelfed.social and pixelfed.de. Available on iOS and Android.
Quick facts
Why does it score 97?
Pixelfed operates under the Pixelfed Foundation, with its largest instances hosted in the EU.
The Pixelfed Foundation has no outside investors or corporate parent.
Pixelfed's major instances, including pixelfed.social and pixelfed.de, run on EU-hosted infrastructure, and the platform is fully self-hostable.
Pixelfed is fully open source and federates with Mastodon via ActivityPub.
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