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Re:Social Networks: It's worse than you think (2020) by dredmorbius on Saturday September 11, 2021 @09:14PM (#28497705)
Nextcloud is probably among your better packaged options. Free Software / OSS:

Share and collaborate on documents, send and receive email, manage your calendar and have video chats without data leaks.

https://nextcloud.com/

For a Twitter equivalent, Mastodon.

Facebook's a bit more of a challenge --- longer-form content, the ability to group contacts, and the like.

Principally there are Diaspora*, Friendica, and Hubzilla, all based on or near the ActivityPub standard.

https://joinmastodon.org/

https://friendi.ca/

https://project.hubzilla.org/

There are limits and compromises to these, though all should handle small-scale (family/community) sharing easily. Mastodon's at millions of users, the others are probably smaller.

At scale, moderation and administration of Diaspora* is a bit of a pain, though that's (slowly) improving.

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