Hatium Alt-Tech Index
The official source repository for the Hatium Alt-Tech index, an index of Alt-Tech websites
What is Alt-Tech?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||
| 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 | |
| Gab | https://gab.com | 2023, October 2nd | 03 | A prominent anti-semitic blogging site that has been called "The Twitter of racists" | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| 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) | |
| Gettr | https://gettr.com/ | 2023, October 2nd | 07 | A notable alt-tech website. Not to be confused with Gitter | |
| 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 | |
| Voat | https://voat.com | 2023, October 2nd | 09 | Another alt-tech website | |
| 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
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Top 100 (USA)
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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 Stanfordtech.io
Docs
Further documentation is located in a separate repository
File info
File version: 1 (2023, Monday, October 2nd at 6:54 pm PST)