. (mantaining and renting a server is no cheap matter. I am happy of offering my RSS-Bridge, nonetheless, if you started using it a lot, [a symbolic contribution](https://it.liberapay.com/tommi/donate "Dona a Tommi su Liberapay") would really help me).
## Alternatives
We already covered [the reasons](/why "Why") why Social Media platforms as we know them are bad. Nevertheless, there are plenty of platforms which solve most, if not all, of Social Media greatest issues. The key features which all of them share is that they have **no ads**, user data collected are **the minimum** needed to make the service work, and they are open source: they will never die. Furthermore, since the software is open and anyone can use it, there are several different instances
All of these platforms are free not only to subscribe to, but also to actually use! Anyone could take the code and install it on her/his own server. Imagine having a whole Facebook, completely owned by you. How cool would it be?
- [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org "Join Mastodon") is the most famous one. Think of it as a healthier version of Twitter.
- [Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org "Pixelfed official website") is almost identical to Instagram. It has stories, too!
- [Friendica](https://friendi.ca "Friendica official website") it something like Facebook.
- [PeerTube](https://joinpeertube.org "PeerTube") is a great paltform built by the French Framasoft. As the name suggests, it's like YouTube, but it relies on peer-to-peer video sharing to avoid stressing the servers which host the existing instances.
The most awesome thing is that all of these platforms are connected among each other: I can follof from my mastodon account someone on PixelFed, as well as a PeerTube channel. This is possible because these healthier alternative Social Media platforms are based on the same protocol, [ActivityPub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub "“ActivityPub„ on Wikipedia"). Thanks to this federation, all of these platforms can interact with each other and together they composed what is wonderfully called the [*Fediverse*](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fediverse "“Fediverse„ on Wikipedia") (which stands for *Federated (Social Media) Universe*)
## Run your own
Run your own social networking platform! It's awesome and, in the end, it's not so hard. About this topic, everything is perfectly explained in [runyourown.social](https://runyourown.social "Run Your Own Social"); once you get to the end of that quite long (yet super interesting and insightful) page, you'll want nothing more than starting your own platform.
Note: one thing which has to be pointed out in advance is that running your own social does not mean at all that you have to build one from scratch or that it will be “yet another social media platform” where the user base is so tiny that the social platform itself is useless. Instead, one of the most awesome features of running your own social is that your platform can connect to all of the other Fediverse platforms in the world, hence making your potential connections everything but limited!
## Website
The last solution is the best one: build your own website! Whatever your technical skills may be, you can be your own social media provider and create your online world by yourself. [Wordpress](https://wordpress.com "Wordpress") is the most popular and it's easiest way to start, but if you'd like to learn web development, I suggest [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com "Jekyll official website"), which I used for my personal site as well as this one!
### Further info
- [Get a Website Now! Don't be a Web Peasant!](https://youtu.be/bdKZVIGRAKQ "Get a Website Now! Don't be a Web Peasant!"), a YouTube video by [Luke Smith](https://lukesmith.xyz "Luke's personal website")
## Experiment
After quitting, instead of being [limited](/why#closed) you become free and your creativity is unbounded. Therefore, **start experimenting**!
You may start a newsletter or record a podcast, they're very popular these days! Alternetively, you may consider focusing on more intimate and personal communications, sharing your life's milestones by sending [private messages](https://signal.org) to groups or individuals.
Regardless of what you decide to do, you can start enjoying your freedom from Social Media.\
At first, it's going to be quite hard, but on the long run it's going to be a great gain!