Best open-source Reddit alternatives you should know about

Paul7 appsUpdated Apr 4, 2018

A couple of months ago, Reddit announced its plans to stop sharing its main website’s open source code base. The website gave a number of reasons, which weren’t welcomed by the open-source and https://alternativeto.net/software/reddit/ community. So, here's a list of free and open-source Reddit alternatives you might find interesting.

Voat.co
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Voat is a censorship-free community platform based in Switzerland where content is submitted, organized, moderated and voted on (ranked) by the users.
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary
Application type
Social Network
Platforms
Online
Paul’s note
Voat is a news aggregator and social networking service where registered community members can submit content such as text posts and direct links. Registered users can then vote for these submissions. After accumulating 100 of these "upvotes" on original comments posted, users can begin voting against submissions and comments. Voting is commonly called "voating" by users. Content entries are organized by areas of interest called "subverses."
Raddle
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Unsatisfied with the few link sharing communities that were available and their proprietary, untransparent and non-secure nature, ziq made the original raddle.me (then known as raddit.me) with Wordpress, but it had a lot of limitations.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Social Network
Platforms
Online
Paul’s note
Just like Reddit, Raddle (formerly Raddit) is a web-based forum where users submit links, pictures, posts, etc., and interact via threaded comments. Built using the Symfony framework, Raddit has a system of upvotes that acts as a big ranking factor. To sign up, you don’t need to provide any email. If you don’t provide the email, your IP address is stored for 7 days.
Steemit
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A non-censored social platform where users are incentivized to contribute and curate content. The users decide what is valuable by voting, and content regarded valuable is rewarded with money.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Social Network
Social News
Platforms
Online
+1
Paul’s note
Steemit is a blogging and social networking website on top of the Steem blockchain database. The Steem blockchain produces Steem and Steem Dollars which are tradeable tokens users obtain for posting, discovering, and commenting on interesting content.
Voten
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We are a small team of developers risen from the world of open-source. We believe in an open and modern Internet. Voten's mission is to give people the power to share their content with not just their friends but the world and interact in real-time.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Online
Paul’s note
Voten is a Reddit-like community-based website developed by a small team of developers risen from the world of open-source. "We believe in an open and modern Internet." Voten's mission is to give people the power to share their content with not just their friends but the world and interact in real-time.
demcra
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The democratic reddit alternative.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
News Reader
Platforms
Online
Paul’s note
Demcra is a non-profit community-driven website for link sharing and discussion. The board of directors is elected by the users, allowing the organization to remain dedicated to the users.
Telescope
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Telescope is an open-source app that lets you easily set up your own online community. You can use it to create your own discussion board, social news site (like Hacker News or .
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Social Network
Platforms
Online
Self-Hosted
Paul’s note
Telescope Nova is a free, open-source app platform built with React and powered by Meteor on the back-end. Nova provides simple building blocks such as posts, comments, forms, and modals, and makes it easy to quickly customize them to build modern, social web apps like Hacker News, Reddit or Product Hunt.
Kliqqi
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Kliqqi - formerly known as Pligg CMS - is a powerful content management system that lets you to easily create a social network or online social community similar to Facebook, Reddit, or Twitter.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Social Network
Platforms
Linux
Online
Paul’s note
Just like Telescope, Kliqqi lets you start and host your own online social community similar to Facebook, Reddit or X. Kliqqi.com itself is a social network that allows befriending other Kliqqi users, sending and receiving private messages, public forums, and your very own profile feed.