Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
Canada


Apps similar to Farcaster include Lemmy, which is free and open source. Other options are Reddit, Digg, Infinity for Reddit+ and Mbin. Social Networks like Farcaster are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for the web, Android, iPhone, self-hosting and iPad.





4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images. There are boards dedicated to a variety of topics, from Japanese animation and culture to videogames, music, and photography.



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

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.

Chatpic.org is a media based platform where anyone can upload images or videos and share comments. There are channels dedicated to a variety of topics like: photography, gaming or politics. You do not need to register before participating in the community.

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.

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



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.

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.


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.

Founders share the revenue numbers behind their profitable apps, side projects, and businesses, and give in-depth interviews about how they did it.



