Open Source Lobsters AlternativesTech & Social News like Lobsters

The best open source alternative to Lobsters is Lemmy. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Lobsters and 16 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Lobsters are PieFed, Mbin, Shaarli and Pinry.

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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...

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    Lemmy vs Lobsters Comments
    Rodney42
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    Similar topics, similar user interface.

    • Lemmy is Free and Open SourceLobsters is also Free and Open Source
    • Lemmy is a Lemmy Client Lobsters is a Tech News Site
    • Lemmy is Decentralized, Lightweight, Privacy focused and MinimalisticLobsters is not according to our users
  2. 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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    • Online
    • Android
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  3. Mbin icon
     16 likes

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

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  4. 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  6. 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 .

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  7. The ultimate ad-free Reddit experience. Fully customizable, open-source, and lightning-fast. Switch to Infinity for a cleaner, smoother way to browse Reddit.

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  8. LWN.net icon
     10 likes

    LWN.net aims to be the premier news and information source for the free software community. We provide comprehensive coverage of development, legal, commercial, and security issues. The LWN.net Weekly Edition is our weekly summary of what has happened in the free software world;...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  10. 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  11. Thymble icon
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    Thimble is an open-source, community-based news platform built with Ruby on Rails. Much like Reddit or Hacker News, users are identified by pseudonyms and all content posted is generated by user.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  12. Voten icon
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    We are a small team of developers risen from the world of open-source. We believe in an open and modern Internet. Voten's mission is to give people the power to share their content with not just their friends but the world and interact in real-time.

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