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2 self-hosted Digg alternatives

Digg is a social news aggregation and link-sharing service that lets users discover, submit, and vote on articles, videos, and blog posts. Content is surfaced and ranked based on user submissions and community votes.

Alternatives to Digg

Lemmy is a federated, self-hostable link aggregator and forum platform for creating Reddit-like communities with voting, comments, moderation tools, and ActivityPub federation.

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14.6k stars968 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Mbin is a federated content aggregator offering voting, discussion and microblogging via ActivityPub. A community-focused fork of kbin, built with PHP and Symfony.

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426 stars33 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing Digg actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 2 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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