Digg AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Social News

The best Social News alternative to Digg is Reddit, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Digg and 14 are Social News so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Social News alternatives to Digg are Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin and Tildes.

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  1. Reddit icon
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    An extensive platform for user-shared content and discussions, organized into niche 'subreddits' across numerous interests like news and video games, with a dynamic voting system influencing what appears on the front page.

    213 Reddit alternatives

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  2. Lemmy icon
     214 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...

    86 Lemmy alternatives

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  3. PieFed icon
     19 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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  4. Mbin icon
     16 likes

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

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    • Online
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  5. Steemit icon
     108 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.

    113 Steemit alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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  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.

    47 Lobsters alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Ruby on Rails
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  7. Phuks icon
     23 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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  8. 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...

    43 Snapzu alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  9. 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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    • Self-Hosted
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  10. 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.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  11. MetaFilter icon
     10 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...

    41 MetaFilter alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Online
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