Bubbles Alternatives

Bubbles is described as 'Somewhere out there, someone wrote a really good blog post today. You'll probably never find it. Google won't show it to you. Social media buried it under engagement bait' and is an website in the news & books category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Bubbles, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Self-Hosted and iPad apps. The best Bubbles alternative is Lemmy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Bubbles are Reddit, Hacker News, Steemit and Mbin.

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  1. Lemmy icon
     204 likes

    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...

    81 Lemmy alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
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  2. Reddit icon
     611 likes

    An extensive platform for user-shared content and discussions, organized into niche 'subreddits' across numerous interests like news and video games, with a dynamic voting system influencing what appears on the front page.

    205 Reddit alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Tor
     
  3. Hacker News icon
     138 likes

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

    68 Hacker News alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  4. Steemit icon
     107 likes

    A non-censored social platform where users are incentivized to contribute and curate content. The users decide what is valuable by voting, and content regarded valuable is rewarded with money.

    109 Steemit alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  5. WikiSpooks.com icon
     29 likes

    WikiSpooks is a global alternative encyclopedia on politics, spy craft, deep state intelligence, and conspiracies, free of corporate influence, partisan politics, or government propaganda for historians and truth-seekers to read, edit, and share.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  6. Lobsters icon
     32 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  7. Slashdot icon
     40 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.

    43 Slashdot alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  8. News as Facts icon
     17 likes

    Read the most important global news in minutes presented as quick and unbiased facts. Forever ad-free and privacy respecting.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  9. Raddle icon
     24 likes

    Unsatisfied with the few link sharing communities that were available and their proprietary, untransparent and non-secure nature, ziq made the original raddle.me (then known as raddit.me) with Wordpress, but it had a lot of limitations.

    94 Raddle alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  10. Postmill icon
     3 likes

    Postmill is a free, web-based, social link aggregator with voting and threaded comments. It is built on the Symfony framework. Used to host raddle.me.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Zlib)

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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