SoylentNews AlternativesTech & Social News like SoylentNews

SoylentNews is described as 'Community-moderated news site aggregating technology, science, and general interest articles with threaded discussion, upvoting, and global user participation' and is a Tech News site in the news & books category. There are eight alternatives to SoylentNews, not only websites but also apps for Android, iPhone, Self-Hosted and Ruby on Rails. The best SoylentNews alternative is Lemmy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to SoylentNews are Hacker News, Lobsters, Slashdot and LWN.net.

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  1. Lemmy icon

    Lemmy

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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...

    74 Lemmy alternatives

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    • Online
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    • Lemmy is the most popular Web-based, Android, iPhone & Self-Hosted alternative to SoylentNews.

    • Lemmy is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SoylentNews.

    • Lemmy is Free and Open SourceSoylentNews is also Free and Open Source
    • Lemmy is Lightweight, Privacy focused and MinimalisticSoylentNews is not according to our users
  2. Hacker News icon

    Hacker News

     132 likes

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

    65 Hacker News alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  4. Lobsters icon

    Lobsters

     31 likes

    Lobsters is a technology-focused link-aggregation site. The site is driven by Ruby on Rails with the source code being freely available for those seeking to create a site similar to Reddit or Hackernews.

    39 Lobsters alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Ruby on Rails
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    Slashdot

     39 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.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  6. LWN.net icon

    LWN.net

     9 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
     
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    Lambda the Ultimate

     3 likes

    Lambda the Ultimate is a community blogging website about programming languages, their theory and their research created in 2000 by Ehud Lamm.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. entre news icon

    entre news

     2 likes

    Human curated collection of the best news for entrepreneurs, every day - about entrepreneurship, small businesses and startups.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
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  10. Plozee icon

    Plozee

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    Plozee is a site where you can read and share interesting stories and experiences.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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