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PRAW
PRAW, an acronym for "Python Reddit API Wrapper", is a python package that allows for simple access to Reddit's API.
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lenny
Discontinued ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) A more user-respectful fork of Lemmy. Created for https://derpy.email.
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Hence, a higher number means a better Reddit alternative or higher similarity.
Reddit discussion
Reddit reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of Reddit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-12-11.
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Everyone Uses Postgres… But Why?
Reddit has over half a billion accounts as of 2024. To support that, they use PostgreSQL as a ThingDB (sort of key-value store) and as a regular SQL database. See more in their write-up.
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Ask HN: Why isn't HN libre/FOSS?
Slashdot, reddit, and HN are similar in that the source code was available. For HN, as part of arc under the Artistic license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
- The boiling frog of digital freedom
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Karma, votes, and diminishing returns
While it would likely have zero overlap with the code in use today if you look at the old code Reddit used to publish for voting the model at that point used to have flags/checks for :
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[reddit self-host] Thrift issues?
I've been trying to host my own instance of Reddit from archived source code on GitHub. Even though I am aware that's probably not a good idea since many dependencies are broken and there's practically no documentation on anything (and it's really old legacy code), but I still decided to give it a shot.
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Does anyone else just feel sad about all of this?
Shh, don't tell spez, the code is already available on the github https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/
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Delv guy here: Sharing the mockup
Automod to act based on keywords/domains/etc., ideally using the same language/flags/regex/etc. of the original automod (old code) so that it's possible to use existing code. (For detecting off-topic posts, enforcing a title format, reminding the users to add missing details to post, filtering profanity, shadowbanning spammers, etc.)
- Users in r/harrypotter lashing out as mods ignore community vote
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Rings.social – Reddit-API compatible and Open Source content-voting platform
Reddit pre enshittification is actually open source so spinning up your own Reddit instance should be trivially easy. I’m very surprised no one did this after the API protests started
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
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Keep the clients, make a new backend?
There are already 1:1 reddit clones based on older versions of their software that was open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
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Stats
Basic Reddit repo stats
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0.0
over 7 years ago
Reddit is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Reddit is Python.
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