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The best free alternative to Reddit is 4chan. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Reddit and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Reddit are Steemit, Raddle, Phuks and Tildes.

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  1. 4chan icon
     63 likes

    4chan 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, and photography.

    56 4chan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Warning

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    • Online
     
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  2. Steemit icon
     107 likes

    A non-censored social platform where users are incentivized to contribute and curate content. The users decide what is valuable by voting, and content regarded valuable is rewarded with money.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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  3. Raddle icon
     24 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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  4. Phuks icon
     23 likes

    An alternative to Reddit and Voat. It has the original Voat culture of open expression. Most users on the site are interested in web development but mostly only chat about that in IRC.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
     
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  5. Tildes icon
     19 likes

    A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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  6. [RAMBLE] icon
     10 likes

    A reddit-like site focused on privacy and free speech that is available through various anonymity networks such as TOR, I2P, LokiNet and Yggdrasil as well as the clearnet.

    29 [RAMBLE] alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  7. Substr icon
     1 like

    Substr is a community layer built around Nostr. It gives threads a shared home, so conversations feel easier to follow than they do in one endless feed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  8. Indie Hackers icon
     18 likes

    Founders share the revenue numbers behind their profitable apps, side projects, and businesses, and give in-depth interviews about how they did it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. Lainchan icon
     14 likes

    Lainchan is a great imageboard package, actively building on it and adding a lot of features and other improvements. This imageboard's topic focused to anime, manga, politic, and technology.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  10. Voten icon
     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
     
  11. rDrama icon
     2 likes

    rdrama.net caters to drama in all forms such as: Real life, videos, photos, gossip, rumors, news sites, Reddit, and Beyond™. There isn't drama we won't touch, and we want it all!.

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  12. HiddenLayer icon
     7 likes

    HiddenLayer.app is a discussion and information platform consisting of layers. Layers personify concepts, ideas, and data as independently run communities. Powered by a UI and infrastructure capable of organizing and analyzing millions of posts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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