freedit
orbit
| freedit | orbit | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1 | |
| 188 | 16 | |
| 2.7% | - | |
| 5.8 | 10.0 | |
| 6 days ago | 12 months ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
freedit
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Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
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.
- Ask HN: Anyone Building a Competitor to Reddit?
- Self-host Twitter and Reddit-like and online RSS reader written in Rust
- Update 2: Reddit's proposed API changes, and the continued existence of RedReader
- if reddit bans us, where will we go?
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Some forum software written in Rust
As you can see that almost all of these are very new projects, it could have been a bit bigger but I didn't include Reddit alternatives, that is why you don't see the main Lemmy repo and Freedit not being linked here.
- A self-hosted Twitter- and Reddit-like site written in Rust
orbit
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Some forum software written in Rust
Orbit - Another forum software that supports ActivityPub. Frontend is in Typescript, backend has Redis + PostgreSQL.
What are some alternatives?
casibase - ⚡️Open-source AI LangChain-like RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) knowledge database with web UI and Enterprise SSO⚡️, supports OpenAI, Azure, LLaMA, Google Gemini, HuggingFace, Claude, Grok, etc., chat bot demo: https://demo.casibase.com, admin UI demo: https://demo-admin.casibase.com
discuz - A rust forum server project showcasing clean architecture, technologies integration, and best practices
4chan-API - Documentation for 4chan's read-only JSON API.
morum - Matrix forum
lemmy-ui - The official web app for lemmy.
hikari - The Frontend of Everything
nimforum - Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
jerboa - A native android app for Lemmy
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.