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If you're interested in Go, I develop such a project and the plumbing required for it. The code is at https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr and you can check it out at https://brutalinks.tech

For people favouring to the old reddit interface more, I created another federated alternative: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr (with an example instance at https://brutalinks.tech). Sadly it received less publicity and mind share than lemmy, so not everything might be up to the expectations of the HN crowd.

Considering it's received HN's kiss-of-death, perhaps a pointer to the code is useful: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr

I started a go project to create a link aggregator similar to HN and old reddit, but built on top of ActivityPub. It's targeted at small to medium communities, but at the same time it can reach outward through the federation mechanism that ActivityPub provides. Outside of immediate support to intercommunicate with other instances of its own platform, it will handle interactions from the larger fediverse at large: Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, etc. Currently this is a one man project, namely me, and I would welcome support in any area that people could help: development, design, documentation, graphics, copy, etc. The project can be found at https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr, and if anyone is interested there is a mailing list where people can get in touch: https://lists.sr.ht/~mariusor/activitypub-go Some details about the project can b

Allow me to add one more, built by me, which is closer to lemmy in functionality being also built on top of ActivityPub: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr A test instance is at https://littr.me

I like something called littr.me, single community link aggregator (like HN) but federates, so you get the interaction between communities but each community is sovereign, free to isolate itself as it pleases. https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr But it isn't about "a replacement for reddit." It is about finding communities online you want to engage in and engaging. Forums, non-federated aggregators (like HN), chatrooms all suffice. The trick is to avoid a one stop shop for communities.

I see that people already recommended lemmy, but if you're looking for something closer to old reddit and hacker news I am working on https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr. An example instance is at https://littr.me

I'm building something that could help in this regard: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr It's a distillation of the early reddit into a discussion platform that speaks activitypub. This means that the goal is not to have "one site" to rule them all, but that communities can each create their own and then interact with others if they chose to. An demo instance is at https://littr.me

Sorry for the late-late reply, I am not very active on HN. Hosting this requires a go compiler mostly and patience to fiddle with the sources, or to pester me on the mailing list to write proper instructions for deployment. The little documentation that there is is hosted here[1]. [1] https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr/blob/master/doc/INSTALL...

The new movement to put forward federated small size communities for link aggregation and discussions has maybe a solution for your problem. The project I'm working on currently has these exact things as goals: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr#about Basically it wants to be a service that is easy to deploy, not resource hungry and with minimal overhead over the base federated protocol (ActivityPub in this case) that allows it to sustain a small/medium community that shares similar interests, but also have access to the wider federated community (composed of various instances of Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, etc.).

In a funny turn of events, I have put some of the same ideas into creating the project[1] I'm working on now, which wants to be a spiritual successor for (old)reddit but based on ActivityPub federation. [1] https://github.com/mariusor/littr.go#littrme

I'm actually working on something like that at https://github.com/mariusor/littr.go It's a link aggregator based on ActivityPub, the federation protocol used by Mastodon and company. I am closing to a 1.0 release, at which point I want it to be completely integrated in the global ActivityPub network and would be interactable with from most of the other platforms. (Basically if you have another valid fediverse account, you will be able to post/interact with littr instances) There are also several other projects in various states of compatibility and featurefullness that are working on the same idea. On the top of my head there's: - Prismo: https://prismo.xyz/ - Lemmy: https://dev.lemmy.ml/

Or https://github.com/mariusor/littr.go - which is my project. Not federated yet either unfortunately. But I think one of the few fediverse projects that dogfoods ActivityPub by using the client to server protocol to communicate between frontend and api.

sharing some others in case it helps - https://github.com/mariusor/littr.go - https://gitlab.com/tuxether/anancus