🐀 A decentralised discussion platform for communities.
Communities, link and text posts, votes and threaded comments, federated across servers over ActivityPub.
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Network of user-run communities where members post links and text, vote on them and discuss them in threaded comments. A closed product from Reddit, Inc..
Side by side
| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lemmy | Full replacement | 15k | AGPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | Rust | 0.19.20 | 2026-10-01 |
| Mbin | Full replacement | 431 | AGPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | PHP | v1.10.1 | 2026-10-05 |
| Discourse | Partial | 48k | GPL-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Ruby | v2026.9.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| NodeBB | Partial | 15k | GPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | JavaScript | v4.16.2 | 2026-10-06 |
| Flarum | Partial | 6.8k | MIT | Open source | Yes | PHP | v1.8.20 | 2026-10-06 |
| Lobsters | Partial | 4.8k | Other | Open source | Yes | Ruby | none | 2026-10-05 |
| Redlib | Partial | 3.8k | AGPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | Rust | v0.36.0 | 2026-04-24 |
Every alternative
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Mbin: a federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform
Magazines of links, threads and microblog posts with votes, federated with Lemmy and Mastodon over ActivityPub.
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
One community per site, with categories and topic voting, not a network of communities.
Node.js based forum software built for the modern web
One community per site with voting, federated with other forums over ActivityPub.
- Language
- JavaScript
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Stars
- 15k
- Latest
- v4.16.2
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
Simple forum software for building great communities.
One community per site, not a network of communities.
Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion
One invite-only link aggregator with tags and threaded comments, not a network of communities.
Private front-end for Reddit
Reads Reddit without ads, tracking or JavaScript; cannot post, vote or log in.
Head to head
- Discourse vs Flarum
- Discourse vs Lemmy
- Discourse vs Lobsters
- Discourse vs Mbin
- Discourse vs NodeBB
- Discourse vs Redlib
- Flarum vs Lemmy
- Flarum vs Lobsters
- Flarum vs Mbin
- Flarum vs NodeBB
- Flarum vs Redlib
- Lemmy vs Lobsters
- Lemmy vs Mbin
- Lemmy vs NodeBB
- Lemmy vs Redlib
- Lobsters vs Mbin
- Lobsters vs NodeBB
- Lobsters vs Redlib
- Mbin vs NodeBB
- Mbin vs Redlib
- NodeBB vs Redlib
About Reddit
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- Reddit, Inc.