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Other then here, Voat is the best overall. Their source is on GITHub if you want to roll your own.

https://github.com/voat/voat

If you want to do your own Reddit here are some clones, largely PHP based:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/77bhdx/phpbased...

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I spent 5 minutes on voat before realizing that it is Fox News in reddit form

Yah that place is cancer. I just took a quick peek inside of /v/politics and noped out. I'm an advocate getting balanced news, but this place is clearly heavily biased. I'm not saying Reddit is balanced either, but a bit more so than Voat.

/v/politics is just as obnoxious rightwing as /r/politics is obnoxiously leftwing. Belonging to a side desensitizes you to it.

/r/politics is definitely not leftwing in any real sense. It's more like distilled American centrism: socially permissive but ultimately capitalist.

> Belonging to a side desensitizes you to it.

Isn't Voat infested with the_donald refugees?

Enough to say that if someone's looking for a reddit replacement because they don't want racism, voat is not the answer.

There is probably a niche for which a stripped down HN-like forum with moderation but for general discussion might be moderately successful.. moreso if it provides a robust API that allows for third party clients.

Maybe self-hosted forums will make a comeback.

I don't think self-hosted forums ever left, really. But it's like IRC versus modern messaging apps; there's been a huge amount of inflation in terms of what user base "success" is supposed to look like.

voat is also where all /r/fatpeoplehate posts went when reddit banned it

Yup it's basically reddit for the alt-right and banned subs... not exactly the place most people want to be

It kind of is, but like Reddit, you make you're own frontpage, you have to find the right communities for you!

It would seem so.

Here's a selection of post titles currently on the front page of voat.co:

- Syria chemical attack was false flag operation by US

- Didn't some vegan, muslim, woman shoot up youtube a week ago?

- A heavy redpill from a man who knows what he's talking about.

- Congressional Dick Pics

Voat is utter shit.

The default greeting/nickname on that site for other users is nifa. How is that okay at all?

> nifa

What is nifa? I am guessing it isn't the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and other organisations that come up on google.

nvm, found it apparently: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nifa

That voat repo is not updated since december 2017. Is this still actively worked on, but in private, or did the devs abandon the project?

It is still actively being worked on. It just recently converted from Microsoft based software to open source throughout. The work is fairly slow because there are only a couple of devs.

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