Open Source Alternatives to Reddit

A social networking platform that enables users to create, share, and discuss content across thousands of interest-based communities, supporting posting, commenting, voting, and personalized feeds to foster authentic human connection.

Whether you want to cut software costs or escape vendor lock-in, these open source alternatives to Reddit give you an option you fully own. You can self-host them, so your data stays on infrastructure you control. This page lists 3 open source alternatives to Reddit. The most popular are Lemmy, Redlib and Storyden. Most use the AGPL-3.0 or MPL-2.0 license, and 3 offer an official Docker image.