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Anyone have a recommendation for a reddit clone open source project? Edit: an open source project where you can quickly roll out your own reddit style, link ag

Anyone have a recommendation for a reddit clone open source project? Edit: an open source project where you can quickly roll out your own reddit style, link agg, site.

kowlo 6y ago
Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
- NoOneNew 6y ago
  How mature would you say the project is (obviously a very subjective question)?
  - kowlo 6y ago
    It works, but it's a little awkward to customise at the moment... an example at https://lemmy.ml https://lemmy.ml and https://www.chapo.chat https://www.chapo.chat (although chapo are supposedly moving away from Lemmy)
    - NoOneNew 6y ago
      Holy ballsack, chapo is a leftist cesspool like parler is a rightist cesspool. It's just one big death to america ISIS wonderland. Lemmy looks interesting all the same... but maybe a different example site that's not politically extremist would be better to convince folks to try it lol.
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      - kowlo 6y ago
        I won't pass any judgement on either community, but to clarify, I was linking them as "popular" Lemmy instances as a demonstration of the technology
      - jodrellblank 6y ago
        What kind of political viewpoint thinks /ISIS/ is on the /left/? Aggressive fundamental Islamic theocratic dictatorship without human rights, without equality, without trial before jury ... what does that have in common with the left and representative democracy, equality, helping the poor and sick, regulating corporations and environmental pollution, pro-peace, anti-warfare, and etc?
        sudosysgen 6y ago
        None, it's just a poor insult. A lot of the far left does hate America, though. Associating people that dislike America with ISIS is a really poor attempt at guilt by appropriation to avoid hard questions.
        NoOneNew 6y ago
        Dude, 3 out of 5 posts on there straight up have "death to america" comments. Almost all have the flag on fire emojis. The only folks in recent memory that were cool with saying those things were ISIS and the Taliban. It wasn't a joke, it was a fair comparison.
        jodrellblank 6y ago
        > it was a fair comparison. Again, what do ISIS, the Taliban, "death to america" and burning flags have to do with the left? When did you last see Bernie Sanders burning the American flag? When did you last see Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez calling "death to America! Death to the Infidels!"?
    - caslon 6y ago
      Wow, the quality of discussion on that second link is really incredible. Surprising!
    - sudosysgen 6y ago
      Chapo is moving away from lemmy for now because lemmy is written in Rust, and Rust just didn't work out - there were issues with interfacing with DBs and with general maintenance as not enough people were good in rust. The biggest reasons why lemmy proved inadqueate as a turnkey solution was insufficient moderation possibilities. So, instead of lemmy, Chapo runs on their own fork, Hexbear. The front end part is still mostly compatible though, so coming back to lemmy core isn't out of the question. But if you want a quick solution to run a reddit style website, Chapo's Hexbear is probably the best.
pierrec 6y ago
Not quite a clone but a decentralized version: https://getaether.net/ https://getaether.net/ has been slowly improving since it was posted here a while back. Still not a lot of users, I think, but that could easily change with events like this.
DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
Gab? Voat? lol.
pov 6y ago
https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes
- mariusor 6y ago
  Tildes will never surpass reddit, as it makes the same capital mistake: try shoehorn multiple communities on the same platform under the same rules. I think the federated alternatives - even though less time tested - will prove better in the long run. Communities can better police their own content, but still be able to interact with other communities through a federation mechanism.
sudosysgen 6y ago
If you don't care much for fédération, Hexbear, a fork of lemmy, is by far the best option I know of, and the one with the most real world use : https://git.chapo.chat/chapo-collective/lemmy-hexbear https://git.chapo.chat/chapo-collective/lemmy-hexbear
indeedmug 6y ago
I thought Reddit source code was already open source.
mariusor 6y ago
I see that people already recommended lemmy, but if you're looking for something closer to old reddit and hacker news I am working on https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr. An example instance is at https://littr.me https://littr.me

Anyone have a recommendation for a reddit clone open source project? Edit: an open source project where you can quickly roll out your own reddit style, link agg, site.

kowlo 6y ago

Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

NoOneNew 6y ago
How mature would you say the project is (obviously a very subjective question)?
- kowlo 6y ago
  It works, but it's a little awkward to customise at the moment... an example at https://lemmy.ml https://lemmy.ml and https://www.chapo.chat https://www.chapo.chat (although chapo are supposedly moving away from Lemmy)
  - NoOneNew 6y ago
    Holy ballsack, chapo is a leftist cesspool like parler is a rightist cesspool. It's just one big death to america ISIS wonderland. Lemmy looks interesting all the same... but maybe a different example site that's not politically extremist would be better to convince folks to try it lol.
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
    - kowlo 6y ago
      I won't pass any judgement on either community, but to clarify, I was linking them as "popular" Lemmy instances as a demonstration of the technology
    - jodrellblank 6y ago
      What kind of political viewpoint thinks /ISIS/ is on the /left/? Aggressive fundamental Islamic theocratic dictatorship without human rights, without equality, without trial before jury ... what does that have in common with the left and representative democracy, equality, helping the poor and sick, regulating corporations and environmental pollution, pro-peace, anti-warfare, and etc?
      - sudosysgen 6y ago
        None, it's just a poor insult. A lot of the far left does hate America, though. Associating people that dislike America with ISIS is a really poor attempt at guilt by appropriation to avoid hard questions.
        NoOneNew 6y ago
        Dude, 3 out of 5 posts on there straight up have "death to america" comments. Almost all have the flag on fire emojis. The only folks in recent memory that were cool with saying those things were ISIS and the Taliban. It wasn't a joke, it was a fair comparison.
        jodrellblank 6y ago
        > it was a fair comparison. Again, what do ISIS, the Taliban, "death to america" and burning flags have to do with the left? When did you last see Bernie Sanders burning the American flag? When did you last see Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez calling "death to America! Death to the Infidels!"?
  - caslon 6y ago
    Wow, the quality of discussion on that second link is really incredible. Surprising!
  - sudosysgen 6y ago
    Chapo is moving away from lemmy for now because lemmy is written in Rust, and Rust just didn't work out - there were issues with interfacing with DBs and with general maintenance as not enough people were good in rust. The biggest reasons why lemmy proved inadqueate as a turnkey solution was insufficient moderation possibilities. So, instead of lemmy, Chapo runs on their own fork, Hexbear. The front end part is still mostly compatible though, so coming back to lemmy core isn't out of the question. But if you want a quick solution to run a reddit style website, Chapo's Hexbear is probably the best.

pierrec 6y ago

Not quite a clone but a decentralized version: https://getaether.net/ https://getaether.net/ has been slowly improving since it was posted here a while back. Still not a lot of users, I think, but that could easily change with events like this.

DaiPlusPlus 6y ago

Gab? Voat? lol.

pov 6y ago

https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes

mariusor 6y ago
Tildes will never surpass reddit, as it makes the same capital mistake: try shoehorn multiple communities on the same platform under the same rules. I think the federated alternatives - even though less time tested - will prove better in the long run. Communities can better police their own content, but still be able to interact with other communities through a federation mechanism.

sudosysgen 6y ago

If you don't care much for fédération, Hexbear, a fork of lemmy, is by far the best option I know of, and the one with the most real world use : https://git.chapo.chat/chapo-collective/lemmy-hexbear https://git.chapo.chat/chapo-collective/lemmy-hexbear

indeedmug 6y ago

I thought Reddit source code was already open source.

mariusor 6y ago

I see that people already recommended lemmy, but if you're looking for something closer to old reddit and hacker news I am working on https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr. An example instance is at https://littr.me https://littr.me