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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...
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- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
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Europe’s Open-Source Solutions: Your Guide to Transparent, Independent and GDPR-Aligned Software.
This guide is designed for anyone looking to take greater control of their digital life by choosing open-source solutions developed and maintained within Europe. It highlights projects that promote transparency, reduce reliance on non-European tech ecosystems, and align with Europe’s strong commitment to privacy and data protection. The goal is to support digital autonomy in Europe while uplifting the local developers and communities who build trustworthy, user-centric software.
Selfhosting
Selfhosting is where you're hosting your own websites, apps, software, tools, and much more on your own server instead of having to rely on 3rd-party cloud providers such as Hetzner. Taking this approach to hosting gives you more control over your data and how your server or servers are managed.
When you are running multiple things on one or two servers, within your home, it's called a "Homelab" and you're "Homelabbing" at that point.
Running your own server and homelab within your home is great for privacy-conscious individuals such as myself, tech enthusiasts, small businesses, and those seeking more control of their digital life.
The following lists provided here are applications and software I've gotten comfortable with and enjoyed using over the past 3 and a half years since I started homelabbing, it's based on my experience and what fits my criteria. Some well known softwares won't be listed here, as my experience may of not been at best with them.
My criteria is that software is built in the open, respects user privacy and security, should not require a license to operate, and don't contain profanity and other minor things.
I'm also willing to test new software to selfhost, feel free to comment or message me to try out other alternatives.
There are other places to check out as well for those interesting selfhosting, such as Awesome Selfhosted, selfh.st, and other places you can find on the internet.
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin
https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker
If you ever need help with selfhosting, you can check out the following communities:
Homelab Community on Fluxer, I personally run
/r/selfhosted (Reddit)
/c/selfhosted (Lemmy / Fediverse)
There's also a wiki you can look into as well.
If you believe an alternative software should be added to this list, please contact me or direct message via my AlternativeTo account. I'm also available on Signal.
This lists gets updated every month at least, check back regularly.
xenmaster's free speech catalog
Either as havens for the deplatformed or as open source self-hosted solutions to those who don't want to put their community in the hands of the google and facebook behemoths, the following solutions are pretty much guaranteed to protect your right to say what you want, as long as you aren't saying/doing anything illegal. Content moderation is pretty lax in many of these apps and unfortunately, many attract refugees with unpopular opinions from the more conventional apps they replace, so proceed at your own risk!
NOTE: Unlike my other lists, I revisit this one to edit on a regular basis to add new better options and to remove those which are either shut down, go dark, or compromise their free-speech principles (in the case of third party services).
Last Update: 9-17-2021
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Lightweight interface that is fast like lightning as well as open source and federated. What is there not to love?
Beware they still have no privacy policy despite being given plenty of links explaining how to create one & appear to be at least somewhat hostile to "right-wingers" which is precisely why a lot of people have left reddit. An alternative with the same issues as the original serves zero purpose.
[Edited by nathalto, August 16]
Yet Another Feddi
Like any other flavor of Feddiverse “allows free speech” is their highest moral crime
Probably the most well developed open source reddit alternative, with features added constantly.
reading posts incrementally is still too hard unlike reddit with reddit enhancement suite (which has a few other nice features that lemmy does not have yet).
Cool application but the user base sucks
indeed. full of radical commie.
Lemmy is just as fun and interactive as Reddit, but with better privacy and less trolls.
Federated alternative to Reddit