This is a list of federated social clients and other related tools that use protocols other than those used in the fediverse (OStatus, ActivityPub, Diaspora, DFRN, Zot)

#### Blockchain

* [Afari](https://www.afari.io/) (pre-alpha) - a mobile-based social network built on the BlockStack blockchain. Not yet in beta as of 2018/12/20.

* [Akasha](https://akasha.world/) (beta) - a web-based social network app that uses the Ethereum blockchain.

* [Leeroy](https://leeroy.io/) (defunct) - a web-based social network app that used the Ethereum blockchain. Their website now directs users to Peepeth.

* [Minds](http://minds.com/) - an unmoderated web-based social network app that uses the Ethereum blockchain.

* [Numaverse](https://numaverse.com/) (defunct?) - a web-based social network app that uses the Ethereum blockchain. Was planning to bridge with AP networks. May be abandoned due to competition from Peepeth and Minds.

* [Peepeth](https://peepeth.com/) - a moderated web-based social network app that uses the Ethereum blockchain.

* [Steemit](https://steemit.com) - a web-based social network app (Slashdot/Reddit-a-like with up/down voting) that uses the Steem blockchain.

* [Twister](http://twister.net.co/) - a birdsite clone using its own blockchain (?)

#### SSB

[SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt)](https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/) is a distributed networking protocol based on [DAT](https://www.datprotocol.com/), see also: https://datproject.org/


* [Manyverse](https://www.manyver.se/) is an SSB client for Android/Linux.

* [Patchwork](https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/)is an SSB client for desktop platforms (currently supporting GNU/Linux, MacOS, and Windows).

#### XMPP

* [Movim](https://movim.eu) is a web client with social network features, written in PHP and uses ~~eJabberd (Erlang) backend~~ any XMPP server with [XEP-0060 PubSub](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html) support. Users can login to any Movim instance using any XMPP account, just as they can login to any Pinafore instance using any Mastodon account.

* [Salut à Toi](http://salut-a-toi.org/) (includes the Libervia web client) is a social network based on XMPP/Jabber.