Lambda the Ultimate AlternativesSocial Networks & Social News like Lambda the Ultimate

Lambda the Ultimate is described as 'Community blogging website about programming languages, their theory and their research created in 2000 by Ehud Lamm' and is a Social Network in the news & books category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Lambda the Ultimate, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, iPad and Android apps. The best Lambda the Ultimate alternative is Reddit, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Lambda the Ultimate are Hacker News, Aether, Lobsters 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.

    201 Reddit alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
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    • Android Tablet
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    • Tor
     
  2. Hacker News icon
     133 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. Aether icon
     30 likes

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

    125 Aether alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. Raddle icon
     23 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.

    93 Raddle alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  7. demcra icon
     7 likes

    The democratic reddit alternative.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  8. PushdUp icon
     3 likes

    A user curated news aggregator site that focuses on high quality articles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
     
  9. SoylentNews icon
     4 likes

    Community-driven news site aggregating technology, science, and general interest articles, offering user submissions, threaded discussions, comment voting, open participation, and article archives for a global audience with a strong emphasis on moderation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  10. Twincl icon
     3 likes

    Twincl is characterized by forum (including link sharing), Q&A, review and blog sites, using CommonMark as its writing format. Twincl features innovative Markdown editing, topic trees, voting/remarks, selected posts, senior authors, logarithmic scales, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. 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
     
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