throat VS stacker.news

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

https://oddbean.com https://satellite.earth https://stacker.news

https://stacker.news is the equivalent of HN for bitcoiners and the only one I read daily besides this one...

Build something like this https://stacker.news

/r/nostr https://stacker.news

Stacker News, of course.

Stacker News (Nostr client)

If you know Stacker News there is a similar alternative that works in Ethereum called zsync.

I've been checking out some of the reddit alternative software as of late, not so much the many different servers and communities around. Ones I've liked:

Kbin https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

Lotide https://todo.sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide

Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Brutalinks https://sr.ht/~mariusor/brutalinks/

Those all (are supposed to) federate. I don't think federation in these communities is always ideal, drive by posting and what not, I think a better approach would be a client that can read your followed stuff from a local list. But some non-federating options are:

StackerNews https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news

Comment Castles https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

freedit https://github.com/freedit-org/freedit

There are lots more, some are great some not. There have been quite a few posted on this site in recent days. Some communities really just need forums or wikis, link aggregation and content voting aren't really always necessary.

I do believe communities should host their own sites. Some communities just don't have the interest to be viable long term, and Reddit was away to externalize cost so that non viable communities can continue to exist. We see the results of that now, a company that isn't profitable due to bearing costs that nobody else is willing to bear squeezing users to try to stay afloat. This was always a temporary state of affairs. If you can't find a single community member dedicated enough to keep a VPS running, or with large communities, you can't scrounge up enough money from donations or whatever to keep the server running, that community simply isn't viable.