Social media, reinvented — by the people, for the people.
OurSpace is a free, open social network on the Fediverse — community journalism meeting everyday conversation, with no ads unless you opt in and no algorithm selling your attention. Just people, sharing life on a server they control.
- Accounts are free
- No ads unless you opt in
- Follow anyone, on any server
- Your data, yours to keep
Your account is free.
Join the new era of social media — no tracking, no algorithm, no corporate bosses.
Free to join · 18+ community · privacy-first
Bring your posts, photos and friends from another VulaSocial server — verified by checksums.
The internet was built to connect us. Somewhere along the way, it stopped.
A handful of corporations turned the world's town square into their private property — our friendships, our memories and our attention fenced off, mined, and sold. The Fediverse is how we take it back: a web of social networks that all speak the same open language, so no single company owns your social life. We all need each other to build the world we want to live in — and it starts by moving.
Out of the walled gardens
Corporate platforms keep your friendships and history behind walls they own. The Fediverse is a protocol, not a company: millions of people on thousands of servers that all talk to each other — and none of them can lock you in.
You are not the product
Ad-funded social media exists to sell your attention and your data. VulaSocial is open-source and free to join: no tracking, no engagement engine deciding what you see, and no ad ever shown unless you switch it on yourself — because here, you are the member, not the inventory.
Your world travels with you
Don't like the server you joined? Move — and take your posts, photos and friends with you. On the Fediverse your home is yours, not theirs. Our built-in migration service moves your whole account to another VulaSocial server.
Corporate social media vs. the Fediverse
The same connections you love — without the surveillance, the algorithms and the owners.
| Corporate social media | The Fediverse | On OurSpace.Africa | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who owns it | One corporation and its shareholders | No one — open protocol, many servers | You and your community |
| How it makes money | By selling your attention and data | Donations and community support | Free to join — no ads unless you opt in |
| What you see | An algorithm tuned for engagement | Who you choose to follow | Your friends, in order |
| Your data | Locked inside one platform | Portable, via ActivityPub | Yours — and yours to take |
| Who you can reach | Only their own users | Everyone, across all servers | Follow anyone, anywhere |
| If you leave | Start again from zero | Keep your identity and friends | Migrate your whole account |
| Who calls the shots | Boards, billionaires and lobbyists | Open, transparent communities | You do — it is open source |
The feed you remember
Your friends' posts, in order. No algorithm rearranging your life.
Photos & albums
A touch of Instagram — without the walled garden.
Groups & events
The community tools that made social media great the first time.
Federated by design
Free. Decentralised. Follow anyone on any server — and never be locked in.
Free. Decentralised. Yours.
This is the flagship instance of VulaSocial — the open-source platform you can also run yourself, on your own domain, with your own community. Built on Laravel, powered by ActivityPub, and made for people who refuse to settle for the old internet.
Federated — connected to the Fediverse · verify this server's nodeinfo
Learn more about the software at vulasocial.com.