Farcaster Alternatives

Farcaster is described as 'Decentralized social network built on Ethereum' and is a Social Network in the social & communications category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Farcaster for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, Self-Hosted, iPhone and Windows apps. The best Farcaster alternative is Lemmy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Farcaster are Reddit, Infinity for Reddit+, Digg and Mbin.

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  1. Lobsters icon
     31 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  2. Tildes icon
     16 likes

    A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  3. Scuttlebutt.nz icon
     12 likes

    a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform sea-slang for gossip - a scuttlebutt is basically a watercooler on a ship.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Patchwork
     
  4. Lainchan icon
     14 likes

    Lainchan is a great imageboard package, actively building on it and adding a lot of features and other improvements. This imageboard's topic focused to anime, manga, politic, and technology.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Slashdot icon
     39 likes

    News for nerds, stuff that matters. Slashdot (aka /.) is a technology-related news and discussion site with a focus on Linux, free and open source software and information freedom and privacy issues. The software it runs on, called Slashcode, is open source.

    43 Slashdot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. ZeroTalk icon
     13 likes

    Forum(s) built with JavaScript ( with CoffeeScript ) and alternativeto.net/software/json for the database distributed by the network .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • JSON
    • JavaScript
    • ZeroNet
     
  7. 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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Raddle icon
     22 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. [RAMBLE] icon
     10 likes

    A reddit-like site focused on privacy and free speech that is available through various anonymity networks such as TOR, I2P, LokiNet and Yggdrasil as well as the clearnet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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