Yarn.social

The decentralised social web, woven from plain text

About Yarn.social

Yarn.social is a decentralised micro-blogging ecosystem built on the twtxt format, where your feed is a plain text file you own and can host anywhere. Open specifications, interchangeable clients, and self-hostable pod servers let people post, follow, and converse without ads, tracking, algorithms, or a central company. It suits users who want a small, portable social presence that no single service can lock in, sell out, or shut down.

Yarn.social website preview

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Yarn.social: strengths & things to check

Strengths

Completely free to use — this directory lists no paid plan for it.
Covers social, decentralized, microblogging, open source, self hosted — see the focus areas listed in its key facts.
Has 6 close alternatives in the same category on this page, so switching or comparing is easy.

Things to check

Free tools can change their model or shut down — avoid locking critical work into it without an export path.
Current plan prices are not listed here (they change too often to print reliably) — confirm the exact price on the official site.
It is one of 565 tools in the Communication & Collaboration category here — compare it against the alternatives below before you commit.

Derived from this listing's own data (pricing model, focus areas and category) — not a hands-on review score.

Yarn.social pricing

Pricing model	Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Free access	Yes — fully free
Current plan prices	Listed on the official site — prices change, so this directory links out instead of printing a number that may already be stale.
Official site	yarn.social

Yarn.social key facts

Category: Communication & Collaboration
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: social, decentralized, microblogging, open source, self hosted
Official site: yarn.social

Yarn.social FAQ

How much does Yarn.social cost?

Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it. Current plans and prices are listed on the official site (yarn.social).

What is Yarn.social used for?

The decentralised social web, woven from plain text Its focus areas in the Communication & Collaboration category: social, decentralized, microblogging, open source, self hosted.

Where can I try Yarn.social?

On its official site, yarn.social — the Visit Official Site button above goes straight there.

Yarn.social vs alternatives

	Yarn.social	Akkoma	Apache OpenMeetings	b1gMail
Pricing	Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.	Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.	Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.	Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas	social, decentralized, microblogging, open source, self hosted	fediverse, activitypub, microblogging, self hosted, open source	video conferencing, whiteboard, groupware, self hosted, open source	webmail, self hosted, php, open source
Official site	yarn.social	akkoma.social	openmeetings.apache.org	b1gmail.eu
Directory status	Listed	Listed	Listed	Listed

Side-by-side from each listing's own directory data. Full alternative cards are below.

About the Communication & Collaboration category

Chat, video meetings, and messaging apps that keep teams connected. The Communication & Collaboration category on Tools Hub currently lists 565 tools. Alongside Yarn.social, it includes Mox, OpenSIPS, Jitsi Videobridge, DavMail.

FreeCommunication & Collaborationsocialdecentralizedmicrobloggingopen-sourceself-hosted

Alternatives to Yarn.social

Tools in the same Communication & Collaboration category that share focus areas with Yarn.social — worth comparing before you commit:

Communication & Collaboration

Akkoma

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Communication & Collaboration

Apache OpenMeetings

Open-source video conferencing, whiteboard and groupware from Apache

Freevideo-conferencingwhiteboardgroupwareself-hosted

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b1gMail

Self-hosted webmail solution that runs on ordinary PHP webspace

Freewebmailself-hostedphpopen-source

Communication & Collaboration

Conduit

Lightweight open-source Matrix chat server in a single binary

Freematrixchat-serverself-hostedopen-source

Communication & Collaboration

Cypht

All your email, from all your accounts, in one place

Freewebmailemail-clientself-hostedopen-source

Communication & Collaboration

diaspora*

Decentralized social network where you own your data.

Freesocial-networkdecentralizedfediverseopen-source

More in Communication & Collaboration

Comparing tools in the Communication & Collaboration category? These related listings are worth a look: Mox — Modern, secure, all-in-one open-source mail server; OpenSIPS — Open-source SIP proxy and server for voice and video; Jitsi Videobridge — Open-source WebRTC SFU for multiparty video applications.