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.
Self-Hosted Reddit Alternatives
Reddit is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best Self-Hosted alternative is Lemmy, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Reddit and 17 are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Reddit are Redlib, Postmill, Hive Blog and Farcaster.
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Reddit alternatives are mainly Social Newss, but if you're looking for Social Networks or Microblogs you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android, Free, iPhone, Privacy focused, EU, Social News and Social Networks. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Reddit.
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Anancus is an open-source, federated or self-hosted link aggregator built on Go, NodeJS and PostgreSQL.
FlowChat is an open-source, self-hostable reddit alternative. It has communities, hashtags, live-updating threaded conversations, and voting.
