WT Social

Wikitribune Social
Type of site
News, social networking service
Available inMultilingual
FoundedOctober 2019; 5 years ago (2019-10)
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)
IndustrySocial networking service
URLwww.trustcafe.io Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialYes (funded by members)
RegistrationRequired (gratis)
Users
  • 450,000 users
LaunchedOctober 2019; 5 years ago (2019-10)
Current statusActive
Content license
Proprietary license

WT.Social, also known as WikiTribune Social, WT or Trust Café, is a microblogging and social networking service on which users contribute to "subwikis". It was founded in October 2019 by Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter.[1] The service contains no advertisements and runs on donations. On launch it gained 400,000 registered users by December 3, 2019. Member growth was less rapid thereafter; the site had 508,980 users on November 5, 2022. In 2023 a beta for a successor version was launched, branded "Trust Café".

  1. ^ Bradshaw, Tim (November 13, 2019). "Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales launches Twitter and Facebook rival". Financial Times.