Lobsters Alternatives

Lobsters is described as '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' and is a Social News in the news & books category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Lobsters for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Android, iPhone and Android Tablet apps. The best Lobsters alternative is Lemmy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lobsters are Reddit, Hacker News, PieFed and Digg.

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  1. Nonio icon
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    Nonio is a Reddit-like platform that gives directly back to content creators. Nonio takes a small portion of subscription costs to run the service and anything over that is split evenly between everything users upvote that month.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  2. Indie Hackers icon
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    Founders share the revenue numbers behind their profitable apps, side projects, and businesses, and give in-depth interviews about how they did it.

    57 Indie Hackers alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. LinkLonk icon
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    Submit and discover interesting links by connecting to other users that share your interests. It's like Pinterest for articles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Poal.co icon
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    A free speech based link and comment aggregation platform.

    25 Poal.co alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  5. LWN.net icon
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    LWN.net aims to be the premier news and information source for the free software community. We provide comprehensive coverage of development, legal, commercial, and security issues. The LWN.net Weekly Edition is our weekly summary of what has happened in the free software world;...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  6. diff.blog icon
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    Aggregator of engineering and developer blogs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  7. SoylentNews icon
     4 likes

    Community-driven news site aggregating technology, science, and general interest articles, offering user submissions, threaded discussions, comment voting, open participation, and article archives for a global audience with a strong emphasis on moderation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  8. A Reddit-inspired platform for gamers with a karma system, offering post trends and comment popularity. Discuss games, memes, and news while enjoying upvotes, downvotes, user subscriptions, and free speech. Customize feeds and explore trending topics with user-generated content.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. Den.social icon
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    den.social is a decentralized reddit-like community, where people can post inside "Lairs" akin to subreddits, and govern each lairs via votes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  10. Thymble icon
     4 likes

    Thimble is an open-source, community-based news platform built with Ruby on Rails. Much like Reddit or Hacker News, users are identified by pseudonyms and all content posted is generated by user.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  11. Lambda the Ultimate is a community blogging website about programming languages, their theory and their research created in 2000 by Ehud Lamm.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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