<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>strenholme</author><text>The problem with Retalk is this: It’s closed sourced.&lt;p&gt;If we want to talk about Reddit alternatives, I would rather we look at ones which are open source, including Reddit itself until 2017 [1], the Mastodon Twitter-like web app [2], Discourse [3], Lemmy [4] (use a fork [5] if you can’t stand the slur filter), and the old school PHP discussions boards like PhpBB [6] and MyBB [7].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;reddit-archive&amp;#x2F;reddit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;reddit-archive&amp;#x2F;reddit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;mastodon&amp;#x2F;mastodon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;mastodon&amp;#x2F;mastodon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;discourse&amp;#x2F;discourse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;discourse&amp;#x2F;discourse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;LemmyNet&amp;#x2F;lemmy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;LemmyNet&amp;#x2F;lemmy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;innereq&amp;#x2F;lenny&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;innereq&amp;#x2F;lenny&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[6] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;phpbb&amp;#x2F;phpbb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;phpbb&amp;#x2F;phpbb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[7] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;mybb&amp;#x2F;mybb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;mybb&amp;#x2F;mybb&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>unraveller</author><text>The front-end is still buggy and needs a designer&amp;#x27;s touch. And the real-time aspects wear thin at scale with all the notifications in a mismatch of languages showing up in the main feed. Lemmy is practically unusable without a personal feed filter, it seems that of the new reddit alternatives only retalk_[1] want to get this right.&lt;p&gt;If you do decide to run an instance of lemmy be sure to nuke the absurd word filter - the code is designed to make it as difficult as possible to change out. Thankfully some nice souls [2] are maintaining that anti-feature removal.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retalk.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retalk.com&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;innereq&amp;#x2F;lenny&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;innereq&amp;#x2F;lenny&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse</title><url>https://join-lemmy.org/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reginold</author><text>How strange they would include word filters that are hard to edit. Seems counter to their whole mission...what?&lt;p&gt;Edit: actually it would make sense if word filters themselves were hard to add. But having their own filter and making that hard to edit is bonkers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>unraveller</author><text>The front-end is still buggy and needs a designer&amp;#x27;s touch. And the real-time aspects wear thin at scale with all the notifications in a mismatch of languages showing up in the main feed. Lemmy is practically unusable without a personal feed filter, it seems that of the new reddit alternatives only retalk_[1] want to get this right.&lt;p&gt;If you do decide to run an instance of lemmy be sure to nuke the absurd word filter - the code is designed to make it as difficult as possible to change out. Thankfully some nice souls [2] are maintaining that anti-feature removal.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retalk.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retalk.com&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;innereq&amp;#x2F;lenny&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;innereq&amp;#x2F;lenny&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse</title><url>https://join-lemmy.org/</url></story>