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24 alternatives to A self-hosted Twitter- and Reddit-like site written in Rust

The safest and lightest forum, powered by rust. Contribute to freedit-org/freedit development by creating an account on GitHub.

A self-hosted platform written in Rust that combines Twitter- and Reddit-like functionality. Designed for developers and communities who want to run their own social network independently. The project allows users to… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A self-hosted Twitter- and Reddit-like site written in Rust launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust▲334

   What works now: user signups, org creations, private/public repos, and importing GitHub repositories (both as read-only mirrors and full migrations). So basically, you can create, push and pull to a repo, but we don't have many features quite yet (issues, PRs, CI). What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust and 2) the website is a little odd. Its design is inspired by CLIs (e.g., fzf, broot, vim) instead of web apps, and as such, lacks some affordances that you might typically expect in favor of keyboard-driven instant navigations (we have the very ambitious goal of an FCP of…

   Jun 2026 · gitdot.io · its alternatives →

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   Hashnode Platform▲411

   Dev community that lets you blog on your domain for free

   2020 · hashnode.com · its alternatives →

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   Rustpad, a self-hosted online collaborative text editor▲143

   Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required - ekzhang/rustpad

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Hocus – self-hosted alternative to GitHub Codespaces using Firecracker▲291

   🪄 Spin up ready-to-code, disposable dev environments on your own servers. Self-hosted alternative to Gitpod and Github Codespaces. - hocus-dev/hocus

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   A new decentralized microblogging platform▲364

   A GNU Social-compatible microblogging server. Contribute to Gargron/mastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Comradery▲291

   Threaded discussions and real-time chat for your community!

   2020 · comradery.com · its alternatives →

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   Hashnode▲250

   A friendly and inclusive Q&A network for coders

   2015 · hashnode.com · its alternatives →

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   my open source "reddit"-like community▲12

   2014 · whoaverse.com · its alternatives →

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   tunnelto.dev▲186

   Expose localhost to the internet with a public URL

   2020 · tunnelto.dev · its alternatives →

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    Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments▲207

    I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot. The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a…

    2023 · zsync.xyz · its alternatives →

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    GPT Nitro for Github PR▲113

    A ChatGPT-based reviewer for your GitHub pull requests

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A blogging platform based on Markdown and HTML (written in Rust)▲8

    A blogging platform where content are markdown files and html files, written in Rust

    2024 · crates.io · its alternatives →

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    An example GraphQL server written in Rust▲74

    An example GraphQL server written in Rust. Contribute to lucperkins/rust-graphql-juniper-actix-diesel-postgres development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm working on an open-source self-hostable GitHub Gist▲62

    A self-hostable clone of GitHub Gist

    2022 · drift.maxleiter.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello, a CLI tool for managing social media▲24

    👋 A command-line tool to submit links to various social platforms - hello-rust/hello

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a minimal Twitter web app with few rules▲86

    2020 · plaintweet.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure▲59

    Master Clojure through project-based courses, live workshops, and a thriving community of practitioners.

    Feb 2026 · clojure.stream · its alternatives →

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    Fosscord – open-source and selfhostable alternative to discord▲40

    2021 · fosscord.com · its alternatives →

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    1Post – HN-like site with markdown and syntax highlighting▲43

    2015 · 1po.st · its alternatives →

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    A streamed, plaintext personal website (Rust)▲5

    It's just streamed plaintext, you can curl it! It pulls my location from a shortcut on my phone that runs when I open any app (which also updates my GitHub location! https://github.com/malted). All the other stats are live.

    2025 · malted.dev · its alternatives →

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    A snappy and resilient Hacker News clone in ~1k lines of rust▲27

    A fast, resilient, isomorphic hacker news clone in ~1k lines of rust. - ivanceras/hackernews-sauron

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Rocket▲5

    Web Framework for Rust

    2016 · rocket.rs · its alternatives →

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    Reddish – an open-source Reddit clone. MERN and Redux▲10

    Simplified ‘reddit’ (popular social-media site) clone. Made using MERN stack. - amand33p/reddish

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Decentralized Twitter clone built on Ethereum blockchain▲25

    Social media platform where users can post and authenticate via smart contracts, built on Ethereum using Nest.js, PostgreSQL, Solidity and Prisma - Dyslex7c/Decentralized-Twitter

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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