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The best open source alternative to Digg is Lemmy. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Digg and 15 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Digg are PieFed, Mbin, Steemit and Tildes.

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  1. Lemmy icon
     196 likes

    Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are...

    78 Lemmy alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. PieFed icon
     15 likes

    PieFed is a link aggregator, a forum, a hub of social interaction and information, built for the fediverse. the focus is on individual control, safety, and decentralised power.

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  3. Mbin icon
     14 likes

    Mbin: a federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform (By the community, for the community).

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    • Online
     
  4. Steemit icon
     106 likes

    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.

    109 Steemit alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  5. Aether icon
     30 likes

    Open source, self-governing communities with auditable moderation and mod elections.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Lobsters icon
     32 likes

    Lobsters is a technology-focused link-aggregation site. The site is driven by Ruby on Rails with the source code being freely available for those seeking to create a site similar to Reddit or Hackernews.

    41 Lobsters alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  7. Raddle icon
     23 likes

    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.

    93 Raddle alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  8. Phuks icon
     22 likes

    An alternative to Reddit and Voat. It has the original Voat culture of open expression. Most users on the site are interested in web development but mostly only chat about that in IRC.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
     
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    higher quality of content. Better discussions.

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    Created by veterans of Digg, Reddit, Voat, etc.. Clean design and a great community that is a breath of fresh air from the melodrama and vitriol of sites like Reddit and Voat.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Phuks is Free and Open SourceDigg is Free and Proprietary
    • Phuks is Privacy focusedDigg is not according to our users
  9. demcra icon
     7 likes

    The democratic reddit alternative.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  10. Den.social icon
     3 likes

    den.social is a decentralized reddit-like community, where people can post inside "Lairs" akin to subreddits, and govern each lairs via votes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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