Digg AlternativesSocial News & Social Networks like Digg

Digg is described as 'Social news platform with topic-based communities, transparent moderation, user voting, content discovery, anti-spam measures, web and mobile access' and is a popular Social Network in the news & books category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Digg for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, Self-Hosted and Windows apps. The best Digg alternative is Reddit, which is free. Other great apps like Digg are Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin and Steemit.

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  1. Reddit icon
     616 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.

    213 Reddit alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Tor
    • US flagUnited States
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  2. Lemmy icon
     212 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...

    85 Lemmy alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
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  3. PieFed icon
     19 likes

    PieFed is a link aggregator, a forum, a hub of social interaction and information, built for the fediverse. the focus is on individual control, safety, and decentralised power.

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    • Online
    • Android
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  4. Mbin icon
     16 likes

    Mbin: a federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform (By the community, for the community).

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    • Online
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  5. Steemit icon
     108 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.

    112 Steemit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • US flagUnited States
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  6. Aether icon
     31 likes

    Open source, self-governing communities with auditable moderation and mod elections.

    128 Aether alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
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  7. 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
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  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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  9. Phuks icon
     23 likes

    An alternative to Reddit and Voat. It has the original Voat culture of open expression. Most users on the site are interested in web development but mostly only chat about that in IRC.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
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  10. Compesh icon
     6 likes

    Compesh is a question and answer forum, which also has a groups and blogging feature.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  11. Snapzu icon
     15 likes

    Snapzu is basically reddit alternative. It is a bit better looking, and the community is rather small so far, but growing. Official description: Snapzu is a platform for web content creation, aggregation & discovery, where users like you help provide content and decide what...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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