Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Blogmesh is a decentralized social network that connects individual blogs together, launched in 2018. It allows bloggers to build a shared social experience across their existing blogs without relying on a central… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Blogmesh, Interconnect Blogs to Create a Decentralized Social Network launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs▲351

   2019 · git.sr.ht · its alternatives →

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   I built a frontpage for personal blogs▲783

   With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/ If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.

   Apr 2026 · text.blogosphere.app · its alternatives →

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   s@: decentralized social networking over static sites▲414

   Social networking over static sites

   Mar 2026 · satproto.org · its alternatives →

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   Blogin v2▲156

   Mix of Medium and WordPress, but for internal communication

   2024 · blogin.co · its alternatives →

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   A decentralized social network with end-to-end encryption▲167

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Blogbuster ▲313

   Launch a blog on your domain in minutes & free

   2025 · blogbuster.so · its alternatives →

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   r/hnblogs, Blogging is not Dead▲306

   Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/ Old Reddit Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/ Hi HN, Inspired by this post earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23237559, I thought we could make blog discovery easier by having a place to find interesting, unusual, niche, or really any kind of non-marketing blogs that are posted by the people that write them. There are a ton of interesting blogs on the web, probably more than there were when the web was new, but even though there's more they're a smaller…

   2020 · its alternatives →

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   Decentralised Twitter – Microblogging on the Ethereum Blockchain▲63

   Decentralized Twitter: A microblogging service running on the Ethereum blockchain - yep/eth-tweet

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   The Newscene▲81

   FB groups meet Mailchimp. Build your own social community.

   2020 · newscene.io · its alternatives →

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    Blogin▲105

    Create and run an internal company blog.

    2014 · blogin.co · its alternatives →

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    A new decentralized microblogging platform▲364

    A GNU Social-compatible microblogging server. Contribute to Gargron/mastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Blogosphere – Discover independent technical blogs▲200

    Hi, my name is Bill. I’m a software engineer based in London. This is a blog about software development.

    2021 · bilbof.com · its alternatives →

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    Blogging by 1MB▲99

    The easy way to host your website or blog

    2021 · 1mb.co · its alternatives →

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    The Agora – an experimental social network▲157

    2020 · anagora.org · its alternatives →

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    Blogs.hn – tiny blog directory▲224

    Like others on here, I was inspired by the "personal blogs" post :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 In proper HN fashion, the site is open-source and requires no JS! There's instructions on how to add/edit a blog on the Github README. [1] https://github.com/surprisetalk/blogs.hn Note that your blog might appear in blogs.json, but not on the site! Right now I'm using the following code to filter out blogs. Your blog might appear if you add more metadata: if ( 3 > 0 + !!blog.title + (blog.desc.length > 40) + !!blog.about + !!blog.now +…

    2023 · blogs.hn · its alternatives →

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    Minds▲91

    The Community Owned Social Network

    2015 · minds.com · its alternatives →

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    Threads▲274

    Share ideas & trends with text

    2023 · threads.net · its alternatives →

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    Pine.blog▲68

    A Open Social Network built on blogging and feed reading

    2018 · pine.blog · its alternatives →

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    squabbles▲247

    A new kind of social media, a community powered platform

    2023 · squabbles.io · its alternatives →

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    Graphite Publishing – A decentralized, user owned blogging platform▲90

    2019 · publishing.graphitedocs.com · its alternatives →

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    Airtext▲164

    Create your own decentralized blog with one click ✍

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Decentralized Twitter clone built on Ethereum blockchain▲25

    Social media platform where users can post and authenticate via smart contracts, built on Ethereum using Nest.js, PostgreSQL, Solidity and Prisma - Dyslex7c/Decentralized-Twitter

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post▲107

    A social network with no POSTs. Send a message with an HTTP GET request.

    Sep 2026 · gettogether.dev · its alternatives →

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    A Blogging Platform▲25

    2020 · scribbble.io · its alternatives →

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