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24 alternatives to Lambda – The first-ever open-source privacy based social media app

Hi HN community! NOTE: This is a repost due to missing of links I’m excited to introduce Lambda, a project I've been working on. Lambda is the world's first open-source social media app designed to prioritize your privacy and well-being. It's still in its early stages, but I'm eager to share it with you and get your feedback. What is Lambda? Lambda is an open-source social media app that addresses privacy concerns and reduces social media addiction. Here's what makes Lambda unique: - Privacy First: Lambda does not collect personal information beyond your email address for account creation.…

Lambda is an open-source social media application designed to prioritize user privacy and reduce addiction. It collects minimal personal information beyond email for account creation and displays only posts from… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lambda – The first-ever open-source privacy based social media app launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Lambda▲7

    Privacy based social media app

    2024 · lambda-official.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    The first ever open-source social media app

    2023 · lambda-official.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  3. 3LC
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    Control the web with prompts (open source)

    2025 · browser-use.com · its alternatives →

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    I got my start on the Internet in the very early 90s playing with, authoring in, and programming on LambdaMOO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LambdaMOO) and similar systems. Shared virtual social spaces, with a persistent object oriented authoring / scripting language. They can be classified as MUDs (depending on who you talk to) but the focus is social, creative / authoring, and shared programming not RPG gaming. I've always wanted to see this kind of thing modernized and further developed. Over the last 25 years or so I've worked on similar but novel & improved…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6HL
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    Create slides with words, PDF & YouTube videos

    2023 · chatslide.ai · its alternatives →

  8. 8IW

    Hi HN! During the last few years, I worked on a few applications built with Go, running on AWS Lambda. As I got to know the platform better, I started to find Go & Lambda to be a really productive combination. The applications were fast, and they ended up being much cheaper to run than what my team & I had built before. It’s probably not the best platform for _every_ application, but I was surprised at how much of our workload worked well on it. As we brought new engineers on to our team and helped them get up to speed with the stack, I found that we were covering a lot of the same topics…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Lok▲90

    A secure uncensored and productive social network

    2021 · getlok.co · its alternatives →

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    A free open source Buffer alternative

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    I am working on this project, http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/, and would be happy to get your opinion back. Thanks a lot. Alain Marty

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    We are looking for feedback on a novel way to build and run a service for you to manage and share your identity. Demo: https://greenfielddemo.com

    2022 · hello.coop · its alternatives →

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    Pepul▲103

    A new age interest-based, privacy first social network app

    2022 · pepul.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15LA
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    Hermes▲81

    A decentralized, encrypted chat app

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    A simple platform to anonymously share your secrets.

    2017 · secretsofar.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19IM

    The idea is to share data-based insights about sexual life I’ve worked in SexEd startups, and it’s wild that humanity doesn’t have this data. Most major academic studies have focused on sex primarily from a health and reproduction perspective, leaving many important and interesting questions unexplored (for many reasons) To promote transparency, the anonymous data will be open-sourced, allowing researchers, students and anyone interested to analyze it

    2025 · worldsexmap.com · its alternatives →

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    2018 · b2b3.free.fr · its alternatives →

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    Simple private photo sharing app

    2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Use AWS Lambda to perform free-text search on documents - With SAM Template - rlingineni/Lambda-Serverless-Search

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built Lambda ERP, an open-source ERP prototype where chat is the primary interface. It handles sales/purchase flows, invoices, payments, inventory, double-entry accounting, reports, and chat-generated analytics. There’s a live demo in the README with 3 years of simulated data, plus a Docker Compose setup if you want to run it locally. It is not production-ready yet; I’m looking for feedback on the architecture, the chat-first workflow, and whether this direction makes sense for small teams that can’t afford traditional ERP implementation projects.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build and deploy Node.js applications constructed from AWS Lambda functions. - exratione/lambda-complex

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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