hey.cafe AlternativesQ&A Services and other similar apps like hey.cafe

hey.cafe is described as 'Hey.Café is a new social network designed to be easy to use. When you join you can create new conversations and join communities that we call cafés based on your interests, and it's free to use' and is a Q&A service in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to hey.cafe for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, Android Tablet and iPad apps. The best hey.cafe alternative is Lemmy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like hey.cafe are Reddit, Hacker News, Quora and Steemit.

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  1. Lemmy icon
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    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
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    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Reddit icon
     603 likes

    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.

    202 Reddit alternatives

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    • Freemium
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    • Windows
    • Online
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    • Tor
     
  3. Hacker News icon
     135 likes

    Hacker News is a social news website that caters to programmers and entrepreneurs, delivering content related to computer science and entrepreneurship.

    67 Hacker News alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  4. Quora icon
     256 likes

    People come to Quora to ask questions about any subject, read high quality knowledge that's personalized and relevant to them, and share their own knowledge with others. Quora is a place to share knowledge and better understand the world.

    81 Quora alternatives

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    • Freemium
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    • Online
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  5. 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
     
  6. Aether icon
     30 likes

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

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
  7. 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  8. Slashdot icon
     40 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

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    • Free
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    • Online
     
  9. Raddle icon
     24 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.

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    • Free
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    • Online
     
  10. 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
     
  11. FlingUp icon
     27 likes

    Currently available in 41 countries, FlingUp is a new social media / link aggregation platform aimed to offer a minimalist daily dose of content without forcing dark design patterns like infinite scroll.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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