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Hatium Alt-Tech Index

πŸ’’οΈπŸŒοΈπŸ—ƒοΈπŸ’ΎοΈ The official source repository for the Hatium Alt-Tech index, an index of Alt-Tech websites

What is Alt-Tech?

Wikipedia

Alt-tech are social media platforms and Internet service providers that have become popular among the alt-right, far-right, and others who espouse extremism or fringe theories, often because they employ less stringent content moderation than mainstream platforms. The term "alt-tech" is a portmanteau of "alt-right" and "Big Tech". In the 2010s, some prominent conservatives and their supporters began to use alt-tech platforms because they had been banned from other social media platforms. Alt-tech platforms describe themselves as protectors of free speech and individual liberty, which researchers and journalists have alleged may be a cover for antisemitism and terrorism.

The Alt-Tech index

This project aims to be an index of alt-tech websites for the purpose of blocking, countering, documenting, and avoiding.

Top 10

The top 10 most notable alt-tech websites. Logos are not yet included. All entries are listed as 2023, October 2nd, as that is when this project was started.

Logo Site URL Inclusion date Ranking Reason
Not available Twitter https://twitter.com 2023, October 2nd 01 Twitter/X was once a website that hosted alt-tech users, but made attempts to crack down on them. After the website was acquired by Elon Musk in 2022, the owner of the site has actively posted hateful/misleading content, and has brought many alt-tech users back. Twitter is currently the most mainstream Alt-tech website.
Not available X https://x.com 2023, October 2nd 02 Despite changing the name of Twitter to X, X is not the popular name, and has been demoted to the #2 spot
Not available Gab https://gab.com 2023, October 2nd 03 A prominent anti-semitic blogging site that has been called "The Twitter of racists"
Not available Parler https://parler.com 2023, October 2nd 04 A site that tries to resemble Twitter, and be a host of far-right users (before Twitter switched owners) despite this, it still remains relatively popular
Not available DailyStormer http://dailystormer.in/ 2023, October 2nd 05 A prominent Neo-Nazi website that encourages "a second Holocaust" alongside holocaust denial, conspiracy theories, and a large array of other hateful content. This website is frequently taken offline, but comes back under a different Top Level Domain, as many web hosts are not willing to host it.
Not available BitChute https://bitchute.com 2023 October 2nd 06 A video site that is notable for hosting misinformation, it once boasted being a P2P site, despite using no P2P technologies (it claimed to be WebTorrent based)
Not available Gettr https://gettr.com/ 2023, October 2nd 07 A notable alt-tech website. Not to be confused with Gitter
Not available TruthSocial https://truthsocial.com/@ 2023, October 2nd 08 A prominent alt-tech website, created by former US president Donald Trump after he was banned from Twitter for inciting an insurrection on the United States capital on 2021, January 6th. The site is based on Mastodon, and originally was closed source, but after legal issues caused by violation of the AGPL3 license that Mastodon used, the source code was made available
Not available Voat https://voat.com 2023, October 2nd 09 Another alt-tech website
Not available Rumble https://rumble.com/ 2023, October 2nd 10 A notable site of misinformation, hate speech, and other unwanted content, but not as well heard of as the other 9. It is notable for its parent company hosting the TruthSocial website

Not included

The following sites have a sizeable alt-tech userbase, but the platform does not have rules supporting these users, or an alt-tech owner.

This list is not in any particular order, the first 3 entries are bundled together, since they all have the same owner (Facebook/Meta Platforms)


Original project draft


Write in: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CSV

What classifies a site as alt-tech?

[][DESCRIPTION HERE][]

Top 100 (USA)
sort by world, country, state, city, municipality, oblast, governorate, county, raion, 
https://twitter.com
https://x.com
https://gab.com
https://parler.com
https://voat.com
http://dailystormer.in/
https://bitchute.com
https://gettr.com/
https://truthsocial.com/@

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https://reddit.com
https://facebook.com
https://instagram.com
https://tiktok.com
https://youtube.com
https://threads.com
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Hatium

Hatium was originally just an incomplete video game regarding hate. It is now expanding to be a database and toolset for fighting hate and misinformation online.

Inspired by :octocat: Stanfordtech.io


Docs

Further documentation :octocat: is located in a separate repository


File info

File version: 1 (2023, Monday, October 2nd at 6:54 pm PST)