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#### I think this site may break or stop updating soon due to Reddit's API changes. I don't earn any money from this site, and if my calculations are correct it'd cost me a couple thousand dollars per month with their new API pricing, so yeah. If you can, it's probably worth leaving Reddit for other platforms - especially open-source/federated ones like [Lemmy](https://lemmy.world/).
*Note 1*: People are sometimes confused by the fact that there are multiple Lemmy websites like [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/) and [lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/) - don't worry about that. Just sign up on *one* site, and you'll be able to join and interact with communities on *any* other Lemmy site. Choosing which Lemmy site to sign up to is a bit like choosing your email provider - e.g. if you use gmail, you can still communicate with people who use other email services like yahoo or protonmail. The reason there are multiple sites is because _anyone_ can create their own Lemmy instance - so no single person or company controls the '[fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse)'. Just choose a popular and reputable one like [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/).
*Note 2*: You can use [lemmyverse.net](https://lemmyverse.net/communities) to help you find communities across the whole fediverse. If you've signed up to lemmy.world, then you can visit 'local' communities like [lemmy.world/c/memes](https://lemmy.world/c/memes) - and if you want to subscribe to or interact with a community on a _different site_, then just add @SiteName to the end of the community URL. For example, if you're signed up to lemmy.world, but you prefer the lemmy.ml memes community, then you can visit [lemmy.world/c/memes*@lemmy.ml*](https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]) to subscribe to and interact with the lemmy.ml memes community.
*Note 3*: Lemmy is based on the same technology as [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/explore). Both services "speak the same language" (that language is called 'ActivityPub'), so you can view and interact with Mastodon content from Lemmy, and vice versa. They're both part of the '[fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse)', but Lemmy provides a Reddit-like experience, whereas Mastodon is more like Twitter.
*Note 4*: It's worth mentioning that Lemmy is young - the Lemmy [devs](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy) are working hard to quickly improve the software, and server admins have been constantly moving to larger machines to support the influx of new users, so please be patient with bugs and issues. Also, the only way to grow Lemmy is for people like you to spend time on the site daily, interact, create new communities, etc. - please [join us](https://lemmy.world/signup) on this new adventure :)
Lemmy is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social news aggregation and discussion forums
Some have suggested that Lemmy [3a][3b][3c] is an alternative to Reddit but I have never tried it. An alternative to Lemmy appears to be Kbin [4a][4b]. I've never run either of those.
[Edit] Found another called Strimoid [5a][5b] Excluding all the other ones I found as they require javascript to browse anonymously like Mastodon.
[1] - https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill
[2a] - https://www.phpbb.com/
[2b] - https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=456&t=239726...
[3a] - https://join-lemmy.org/
[3b] - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
[3c] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36376373
[4a] - https://kbin.social/
[4b] - https://codeberg.org/Kbin/
[5a] - https://strm.pl/
Make it work with https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy would be one idea. I have absolutely no clue how hard this would be though.
Excited for things like Lemmy[0]. If everyone had their own Lemmy instance it would vastly improve the Internet and social media.
Maybe Lemmy [1] with a Twitter UI is worth exploring?
"... Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse."
Other than that it is almost guaranteed now that its buggy (feels like its held together with tape) and ad-ladden overall experience will be locked-in and get worse (like it happened with facebook)
People might want to hedge their bets and look into open source lemmy and federated versions of the reddit concept https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
https://lobste.rs (source: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters, Ruby back-end)
https://lemmy.ml (source: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy , Rust back-end, federated, in-development but usable)
https://postmill.xyz (source: https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill, PHP back-end)
There's also https://github.com/notabugio/notabug a P2P fork of old reddit UI (that used to be open source itself, old version: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit), and there's https://notabug.org/zPlus/freepost, I just found it searching for this stuff, those are the ones I know of.
If we want to talk about Reddit alternatives, I would rather we look at ones which are open source, including Reddit itself until 2017 [1], the Mastodon Twitter-like web app [2], Discourse [3], Lemmy [4] (use a fork [5] if you can’t stand the slur filter), and the old school PHP discussions boards like PhpBB [6] and MyBB [7].
[1] https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
[2] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
[3] https://github.com/discourse/discourse
[4] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
[5] https://github.com/innereq/lenny
I genuinely don't understand the point this article is trying to make. For one, who (beyond the law) has the right to demand that free software developers do (or don't do) whatever they demand?
Second, on a more practical level, both of the examples cited[1][2] keep their code bases on GitHub. If anyone disagrees with the direction of travel taken by the developers of those software packages, then surely they are entirely free to fork the repository and start developing it in the direction they want to take it.
[1] - Tusky: https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky
[2] - LemmyNet: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Edit: There seems to a project that does this exactly: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
I know of the dev instance and chapo.chat, but I'm sure there are a few others.
Given that open source and federated replacements for Twitter[1], Instagram[2], Reddit[3], YouTube[4] etc exist, this would not be a massive undertaking.
1: Mastodon, https://mastodon.social/about
2: PixelFed, https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
3: Lemmy, https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
4: PeerTube, https://joinpeertube.org/en/
Perhaps use Lemmy, which is trying to evolve into a distributed (federated) architecture:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
The gimmicky name would not be needed, of course, if somehow the old.reddit.com community could use some decision making tool to agree on which alternate reddit implementation/domain to settle upon. Is someone working on solving this coordination problem?
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Hystoria is a simple, reddit-like site (built with a simplified version of Lemmy [0]) where only items older than 5 years can be posted.
I've been obsessed with media dynamics for years now, always wondering what variables can be adjusted within the current environment to result in better media production and consumption.
This is my approach for Hystoria. Time creates context: so even a vapid political article from years ago can present worthy insights since we know a lot more about the topic, context, and outcomes. Lindy effect: chances are that an older item worth discussing now is even more important now. And philosophically: we know exponentially more about the past than the present, and history rhymes, so we should talk more about the past.
More details on my approach are in the launch post [1].
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[0] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
[1] https://100millionbooks.org/blog/news/introducing-hystoria/
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy is federated Reddit. It's also open source just lacks community. Some things are also already better like more performant front end. If I was to bet on something to overtake Reddit, it would probably be it.
I have most hopes for Lemmy[0] as a place for the more rebbel Redditors to seek refuge. Really cool project, advancing really nicely.
There's Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Discourse, Flarum, Talkyard (which I'm developing).
GitHub's new Discussions feature?
Lemmy? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy, "Building a federated alternative to reddit in rust" (how does it matter that it's a reddit alternative? it can still be topic-centric etc?)
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Littr seems to be federated too:
That's about it for federated Reddit alternatives, at least that I can find. And I don't think the federated aspect has caught on yet for either.