Lobsters AlternativesTech & Social News like Lobsters

Apps similar to Lobsters include Lemmy, which is free and open source. Other options are Reddit, Hacker News, PieFed and Digg. There's no shortage of Social Networks like Lobsters, with more than 25 alternatives for the web, Android, self-hosting, iPhone and Windows.

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  1. Lemmy icon
     214 likes

    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...

    86 Lemmy alternatives

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  2. Reddit icon
     620 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.

    213 Reddit alternatives

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  3. Hacker News icon
     140 likes

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

    72 Hacker News alternatives

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    • Proprietary

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  4. PieFed icon
     19 likes

    PieFed is a link aggregator, a forum, a hub of social interaction and information, built for the fediverse. the focus is on individual control, safety, and decentralised power.

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  5. Digg icon
     76 likes

    Platform for discovering, following, and engaging in topic-specific communities through content submission, voting, transparent moderation, anti-spam verification, web or mobile access, integrations, favorite pinning, and an optional AI-created podcast featuring trending stories.

    32 Digg alternatives

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  6. Mbin icon
     16 likes

    Mbin: a federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform (By the community, for the community).

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  7. Shaarli icon
     82 likes

    Do you want to share the links you discover? Shaarli is a minimalist delicious clone that you can install on your own server. It is designed to be personal (single-user), fast and handy.

    45 Shaarli alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  8. Pinry icon
     31 likes

    Pinry is a private, self-hosted, Pinterest inspired by Wookmark and built on top of Django.

    24 Pinry alternatives

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    • Docker
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  9. Dead Men Society is a privacy focused role-playing social network platform for forum lovers, hobbyists, people who want to share their art, journalists, and those who enjoy escapist fantasies.

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    • Online
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  10. SemanticScuttle icon
     47 likes

    SemanticScuttle is a self-hosted and web-based social bookmarking tool experimenting with new features like structured tags and collaborative descriptions of tags. Originally a fork of .

    58 SemanticScuttle alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
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    • Firefox
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  11. 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.

    45 Slashdot alternatives

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    • Free
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  12. LWN.net icon
     10 likes

    LWN.net is a reader-supported news site dedicated to producing the best coverage from within the Linux and free software development communities.

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    • Online
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