Lemmy
Discourse
Lemmy | Discourse | |
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1,611 | 206 | |
13,887 | 44,439 | |
0.7% | 0.7% | |
9.7 | 10.0 | |
6 days ago | 5 days ago | |
Rust | Ruby | |
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
Lemmy
- Any social platforms not focused on algorithms?
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Reddit CEO Says Paywalls Are Coming Soon
Lemmy is an open source, federated forum system with lots of sites and users:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
https://lemmyverse.net/
It does not have as many users as Reddit, but a Reddit paywall might drive more users to Lemmy sites or other alternatives.
- Please help me find better blogs to read
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Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions
There already is a Reddit-like application that uses ActivityPub. It's called Lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/).
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Dive Into The Reddit API: Full Guide and Controversy
Lemmy: A decentralized, open source platform that mirrors many of Reddit's features
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Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Lemmy is one such alternative. I follow a few instances.
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Radicle 1.0 – A Local-First, P2P Alternative to GitHub
Surprised no one mentioned ForgeFed [0]:
> ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem. This includes repository hosting websites, issue trackers, code review applications, and more. ForgeFed provides a common substrate for people to create interoperable code collaboration websites and applications.
It's based on ActivityPub [1], the same protocol that powers Mastodon [2], Lemmy [3], and Pixelfed [4].
[0] https://forgefed.org/
[1] https://activitypub.rocks/
[2] https://joinmastodon.org/
[3] https://join-lemmy.org/
[4] https://pixelfed.org/
- Show HN: Hacker News but for state of the art research
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Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say
Lemmy is like Reddit and here because it has threaded comment discussions.
It's also federated, so you can pick a server you like and have discussions with users from various servers together.
https://join-lemmy.org/
Some Reddit apps switched to supporting Lemmy instead when they were kicked off the API.
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Decentralized Hacker News
Seems functionally similar to Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Discourse
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Lessons from open source in the Mexican government
Everything I see is moving to Discourse [1] now.
The experiment SW is a lot like the buildings and labs in every physics department I've been to: everyone is on a separate 3-5 year grant cycle and as such is contractually obliged not to push for newer infrastructure. People stick to the same software/lab until it is discontinued/condemned.
[1]: https://www.discourse.org/
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Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025
Discourse may be worth considering https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTAL...
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8 Open-Source Tools to grow your app and reach new markets! 🔥
Star the Discourse repository ⭐
- 智变时代 - FAV0周刊#012
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Era of Intelligent Transformation - FAV0 Weekly #012
Open Source Community Forum
- Ask HN: User communities that aren't Discord?
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How even the simplest RAG can empower your team
You need some Ruby library that we can try out here. Letʼs go for Discourse.
- Stop Using Discord
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Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue
> Tell me another platform that is free, has realtime chat, voice and video, has stable service, allows sharing images and other media, with good ownership management... and is open source.
Mattermost: https://mattermost.com/
Rocket.Chat: https://www.rocket.chat/
Nextcloud Talk: https://nextcloud.com/talk/
Self hosting and some assembly required. I've run all of them on cheap VPSes to explore a Slack/Discord replacement, neither was mindblowing but all of them seemed okay (Nextcloud's offering was rather barebones, though).
Audio and video support varies because getting those right is challenging, at best you'd just integrate with something like Jitsi, that one's actually pretty good for meetings and such: https://jitsi.org/ and has a cloud version too: https://meet.jit.si/ (yet people still go for Zoom and it's odd UI/UX choices)
I actually rather liked forums back in the day, but I guess nobody will be setting up that many phpBB instances in the current year, though projects like Discourse also seem promising: https://www.discourse.org/
I don't think many people at all will be leaving Discord, due to how entrenched the platform is (network effect): if you want people to help you with what you're working on, you go where they are, not vice versa.
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Introducing the new Godot Forum
Discourse is also open source https://github.com/discourse/discourse
What are some alternatives?
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Orange Forum - A light-weight forum
kbin - A reddit-like content aggregator and micro-blogging platform for the fediverse.
Forem - The best Rails 3 and Rails 4 forum engine. Ever.
Flarum - Simple forum software for building great communities.