Digg Alternatives

Digg is described as 'Social news platform with topic-based communities, transparent moderation, user voting, content discovery, anti-spam measures, web and mobile access' and is a popular Social Network in the news & books category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Digg for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, Android Tablet and Windows apps. The best Digg alternative is Lemmy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Digg are Reddit, PieFed, SaidIt.net and Mbin.

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Digg alternatives are mainly Social Networks, but if you're looking for Social Newss or News Readers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Digg.
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  1. Snapzu icon
     15 likes

    Snapzu is basically reddit alternative. It is a bit better looking, and the community is rather small so far, but growing. Official description: Snapzu is a platform for web content creation, aggregation & discovery, where users like you help provide content and decide what...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  2. Compesh icon
     6 likes

    Compesh is a question and answer forum, which also has a groups and blogging feature.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. demcra icon
     7 likes

    The democratic reddit alternative.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  4. 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
     
  5. Postmill icon
     3 likes

    Postmill is a free, web-based, social link aggregator with voting and threaded comments. It is built on the Symfony framework. Used to host raddle.me.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Zlib)

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. StackTrender icon
     4 likes

    Check curated articles from the web and follow what's trending in your favorite programming technologies: #php #laravel #linux #vuejs #reacts #nodejs #java #python.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Nonio icon
     2 likes

    Nonio is a Reddit-like platform that gives directly back to content creators. Nonio takes a small portion of subscription costs to run the service and anything over that is split evenly between everything users upvote that month.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  8. Mainchan icon
     4 likes

    Mainchan is a content aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, videos, and polls, which are then voted up or down by other members.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. MetaFilter icon
     11 likes

    Weblog that anyone can contribute a link or comment to. A typical weblog is one person posting their thoughts on the unique things they find on the web. This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
    • MetaFilter is the most popular commercial alternative to Digg.

    • MetaFilter is Paid and ProprietaryDigg is Free and Proprietary
  10. 7chan icon
     6 likes

    a simple image board alternative to 4chan small but still a nice community with much more rules than 4chan

    22 7chan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. quickrant icon
     5 likes

    Express yourself without yourself. Say anything to everyone. No login required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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