#1
Lemmy is a federated, self-hostable link aggregator and forum platform for creating Reddit-like communities with voting, comments, moderation tools, and ActivityPub federation.
14.6k stars968 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
11 self-hosted Reddit alternatives
Reddit is a social news and community platform where users submit posts, vote, and comment within topic-based communities (subreddits). It provides threaded discussions, content discovery, moderation tools, and community-specific rules and flairs.
Alternatives to Reddit
RetroShare is a decentralized friend-to-friend platform for encrypted chat, mail, forums, channels and secure file sharing, with optional Tor/I2P support.
2k stars323 forkslast commit Actively maintained
#3
Self-hostable community discussion platform combining Q&A, forums, team chat, ideation/upvoting, and Disqus-style embedded blog comments.
1.8k stars129 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#4
Elgg is a modular open source platform for building social networks and collaborative communities with plugin-based extensions.
1.7k stars667 forkslast commit Actively maintained
Modern Node.js-based BBS server with Telnet/SSH/WebSocket access, theming and mods, message networks, file areas, doors, and strong authentication options.
666 stars125 forksBSD-2-Clauselast commit Actively maintained
#6
Mbin is a federated content aggregator offering voting, discussion and microblogging via ActivityPub. A community-focused fork of kbin, built with PHP and Symfony.
426 stars33 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#7
A modern forum, wiki, and community hub for discussions, curated lists, and knowledgebases. Extensible, secure platform built with TypeScript and Go.
332 stars36 forksMPL-2.0last commit Actively maintained
#8
Lurker is a self-hosted, read-only Reddit client with a mobile-first UI, minimal JavaScript, sqlite storage and account/invite subscription management.
329 stars21 forksMITlast commit Slowing down
BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin that adds member profiles, activity streams, groups, messaging, and extensibility to build community and social networking sites.
251 stars169 forkslast commit Actively maintained
#10
A compact, privacy-minded read-only frontend for Reddit with mobile-friendly UI, RSS support, and easy self-hosting using Python and ASGI.
188 stars8 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#11
Open source ActivityPub-powered federated forum and link aggregator for running and joining community discussions across the Fediverse.
Activity unknown
What replacing Reddit 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. 9 of 11 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, BSD-2-Clause, MPL-2.0, MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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