What does HackerNews think of throat?

Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge | Sep 2023

Throat is a pretty decent open source project for running a Reddit-alike forum, without all the fediverse bloat: https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat

Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration | Jun 2023

Why bother with a federated forum like Lemmy when there are standalone Reddit clones that are much more performant and easier to manage?

Examples:

Throat - https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat

rDrama - https://fsdfsd.net/rDrama/rDrama

Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone? | May 2022

Some open source reddit alternatives:

https://github.com/LemmyNet

https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill

https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat

https://github.com/ruqqus/ruqqus

https://github.com/Aevann1/rDrama

Subreddit with almost 2M subs tries to migrate to custom platform | Apr 2022

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> On another note, I do not understand why all these banned subreddits that try to migrate to their own site always try to create their own software.

Not all. The admins of Ovarit [1] decided to use Throat [2] rather than roll their own from scratch. Their fork [3] has had various customizations added over time, but it largely follows the upstream. By all accounts, this arrangement is working very well for them.

[1] https://ovarit.com

[2] https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat

[3] https://gitlab.com/feminist-conspiracy/throat

Ask HN: Has anyone tried Freenode's Reddit-style platform? | Nov 2021

>This website is powered by Throat, released under the MIT license.

https://freenode.net/license

https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat

Other reddit alternatives powered by Throat: phuks.co, ovarit.com, poal.co