Self-hosted / open sourceSocial MediaHeadquarters: DE

Akkoma: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Akkoma is free software for federated social networks and a fork of Pleroma. It uses the ActivityPub protocol and therefore interoperates with Mastodon and other fediverse software. Akkoma has its own frontend (akkoma-fe) and can also be used with the Mastodon web interface. Features include custom emoji reactions and Misskey-Flavoured Markdown. Users can join an existing instance or run their own; the documentation includes installation guides for Docker, Debian, Fedora, Alpine, Arch and FreeBSD, among others.

Akkoma is a community project licensed under the AGPLv3, with no central operator and no fixed hosting location. The instance administrator decides where data is stored: an organisation that self-hosts in the EU keeps full control over storage and jurisdiction and does not depend on an outside vendor. With a third-party instance, location and policies depend on that operator. Content shared through federation with other instances falls outside this control.

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Sovereignty score

94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 1, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category	Social Media
Type	Product
Website	akkoma.social ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Akkoma

The European alternatives to Akkoma come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Akkoma

Akkoma is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Akkoma scores best on data residency.

Akkoma is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Akkoma together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Akkoma?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Akkoma include Agorapulse, BeReal and BookWyrm. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Akkoma?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Akkoma include Diaspora and Flarum. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Akkoma GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Akkoma is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Akkoma an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 1, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center: docs.akkoma.dev/stable

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Social Media

Social Media: Social networks — posts, media, communities. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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