Alternatives and competitors
Sites like FetLife
The 20 closest adult social network alternatives to FetLife, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to FetLife? The closest matches are Fab Swingers, JOYclub and Facebook. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About FetLife
FetLife fetlife.com
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Wikidata: adult social networking website
Summary by Claude
A social networking website for people interested in BDSM, fetishism and kink, with member profiles, discussion groups, event listings and user-posted content. It presents itself as a social network rather than a dating site.
- Who it’s for
- Adults in the BDSM and kink community
- Business model
- Optional paid memberships
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to FetLife’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to FetLife
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to FetLife, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read fetlife.com’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Fab Swingers: Free swingers site for UK and USA
adult social networking website
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LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Very close cos 0.907 - 03
promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives
Very close cos 0.903 - 04
ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
Very close cos 0.898 - 05
EroMe - Porn Video & Photo Sharing
EroMe is the best place to share your erotic pics and porn videos. Every day, thousands of people use EroMe to enjoy free photos and videos. Come share your amateur horny pictures and films.
Very close cos 0.896 - 06
MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community
Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
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VK.com | VK
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Bumble | Date, Chat & Meet New People
Bumble is a social network that allows you to feel empowered while making connections, whether you're dating or looking for friends.
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photo sharing website
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GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
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Literotica - Free Sex Stories, Erotic Audio & Adult Fiction Since 1998!
Read, write and publish sex stories, erotic audio & adult fiction. Sexy since 1998 - we publish hundreds of new fantasies daily. Join Literotica's friendly and fun adult community for free, meet friends, and share your story.
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VK.com | VK
social networking service from Russia
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dating website
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dōjin hentai manga website
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product discovery website
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F95zone | Adult Games | Comics | Mods | Cheats
F95zone | Download the Best 18+ Adult Porn Games for PC & Android – Erotic Visual Novels & Sex Games
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Ravelry
Ravelry is a community site, an organizational tool, and a yarn & pattern database for knitters and crocheters.
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Index -- Fur Affinity [dot] net
Fur Affinity | For all things fluff, scaled, and feathered!
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Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
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Watch Porn & Chat With Models | PimpBunny
Looking for the hottest content on the internet? PimpBunny brings you the hottest porn videos and lets you chat with the content creators.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to fetlife.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones FetLife uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What FetLife is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562ff324c7d03be-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Postmark TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mtasv.net include:helpscou…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS khalid.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=uWHSm9z-gih0Wylcvuy-I4n2YhGnu-qbFxZLD_HXL2A
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what FetLife adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- GlobalSign · not on fetlife.com 8/20
- Zendesk · not on fetlife.com 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on fetlife.com 7/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- Atlassian · not on fetlife.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on fetlife.com 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on fetlife.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on fetlife.com 3/20
- jQuery · not on fetlife.com 3/20
- Apple Business · not on fetlife.com 3/20
- PHP · not on fetlife.com 3/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on fetlife.com 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on fetlife.com 3/20