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.
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
Friendica is mostly developed in France iirc
John Mastodon is from Germany.
I share pixelfed with family and friends. Works very well.
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.
Mastodon is based in Europe.
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.
Naver is Korean
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.
I think Italy has vero?
