MetaFilter Alternatives

MetaFilter is described as 'Weblog that anyone can contribute a link or comment to. A typical weblog is one person posting their thoughts on the unique things they find on the web. This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster' and is a Blog Publishing tool in the news & books category. There are more than 25 alternatives to MetaFilter, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Android, Self-Hosted, Windows and iPhone apps. The best MetaFilter alternative is Reddit, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to MetaFilter are Medium, Hacker News, Mbin and SaidIt.net.

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  1. Telescope icon
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    Telescope is a writing and publishing platform. It offers a beautiful and minimal text editor, it doesn't ask your personal details, it features a bunch of cool content distribution mechanisms, and fast and nice-looking content pages.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  2. Farcaster icon
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    Farcaster is a decentralized social network built on Ethereum.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. AnyChan icon
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    AnyChan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images. There are boards dedicated to a variety of topics, from Japanese animation and culture to videogames, music, technology and photography.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
     
  4. Fountain.ink icon
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    Fountain is a batteries-included, self-hostable platform that reimagines digital publishing for the decentralized web. Designed as a web3-native alternative to Medium, Substack, and Mirror, Fountain gives creators true ownership of their content and audience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Wizardchan icon
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    Wizardchan is a Japanese-inspired imageboard for male virgins to share their thoughts and discuss their interests and lifestyle as a virgin.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. Snapzu icon
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    Snapzu is basically reddit alternative. It is a bit better looking, and the community is rather small so far, but growing. Official description: Snapzu is a platform for web content creation, aggregation & discovery, where users like you help provide content and decide what...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  7.  1 like
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    An Alternative Medium Frontend.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  8. Able icon
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    Able is a Able is a bootstrapped community for people to read and write about software. The goal is to provide a platform that people can use to share and develop their technical knowledge and opinions, and discover new opportunities to further their careers in technology.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    A Reddit-inspired platform for gamers with a karma system, offering post trends and comment popularity. Discuss games, memes, and news while enjoying upvotes, downvotes, user subscriptions, and free speech. Customize feeds and explore trending topics with user-generated content.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  10. Den.social icon
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    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
     
  11. Twincl icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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