5d ago

Are there any non-US/China based social media companies?

Are there any social media platforms that are not USA or China owned? Are they any good?

Specifically, I'm looking for a replacement for Facebook and Instagram for sharing information and photos with family and friend groups.

Edit: Thanks, everyone. I've got enough here to work something out.

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There used to be. Shoutouts to Nexopia the Canadian social media before Facebook blew up.
Modern internet is heavily over-represented by USA. idk why Europe was fine with it up until recent times. Let's see what happens.
The Fediverse (which Lemmy is part of) has frendica and pixelfed as Facebook and Instagram replacements.
I'm not sure where Frendica is based out of, but Dan Supernault of Pixelfed is Canadian.
- Friendica is mostly developed in France iirc
The ones I could think of are mostly on the Fediverse. In fact I think a very large chunk of the Fediverse are non-US/China: mastodon.social is currently operated by a German non-profit, misskey.io is operated by a Japan-based group, the Mastodon server I'm registered on is owned by a Dutch guy, ... I think if it is just for friends/family that are willing to switch, Fediverse might be the best option at the moment
https://joinmastodon.org/
- John Mastodon is from Germany.
I share pixelfed with family and friends. Works very well.
Mastodon is based in Europe.
Naver is Korean
Russia just launched one called MAX 🙃
- Lmao OP needs to add Russia to their list
  We have a unholy trinity of authoritarian regimes
- I think VK is still around which I also think is Russian.
mixi might still just be owned by a Japanese company, but I wouldn't be surprised if some US company gobbled it up. You need a Japanese phone number (or maybe phone short mail address from a Japanese carrier) to use it and no one I know has used it in many, many years, but it technically still exists.
You should use Friendica as a replacement for facebook.
I don't really see a point in something like Instagram, considering you can just share pictures on facebook already, but Pixelfed is the logical replacement for it.
I think Italy has vero?

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