throat VS Postmill

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

For Reddit alternatives, it looks like https://saidit.net/ (https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit) and https://phuks.co/ (https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat) could be viable alternatives. They're open source, have the UX features we desire (threaded, voting, sorting, collapsing).

Nice find, it looks like https://saidit.net/ and https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat could be viable alternatives, I'll add them to the list later

Phuks

Why write your own software? https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat

There's actually a few like-minded people involved. It is built off the top of a modified Phuks.co repo (GitHub).

> 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. By all accounts, it's working very well for them.

[1] https://ovarit.com

[2] https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat, forked to https://gitlab.com/feminist-conspiracy/throat

I have not tried this one, but Postmill [1] is similar to HN and phpBB [2] is an off the shelf forum platform with incredible moderator capabilities but I think an add-on is required for voting.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill

[2] - https://www.phpbb.com/

Another one like that I saw recently was Postmill [1a][1b] but I have not tried it.

[1a] - https://postmill.xyz/

[1b] - https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill

It doesn't support ActivityPub indeed. Somebody else has to put in that support in Postmill (the link aggregator software powering Raddle), and the developer herself is not interested in implementing that support herself.

It does! The source code seems like gnu-esque licence.

Postmill is sort of an old.reddit clone you may be able to bend to do your bidding.

I was on a reddit clone for a while for a banned subreddit for my favourite comedy podcast (to remain nameless, but after a while it got racist and I had to leave). They used https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill and it worked fine. It's open source so they could modify it a bit (saving posts, bots etc). The main issue was that over time fewer and fewer people came to the site, leaving only the most extreme and toxic people.. The nice thing about reddit is that it provides a fairly constant inflow of people.

What are you looking for, php engines? They are, some are written, examples: https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill. I am doing Agouti myself, but it is only being developed, it in php, but this is more for now an educational project agouti demo, etc.