Best Subreddits for Open-Source Projects
r/homelab, r/opensource, r/selfhosted: where open-source maintainers answer questions on Reddit, with each community's reported self-promotion norms.
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Communities
| Community | About | Self-promotion | Last reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| r/homelab | Hobbyists and IT professionals share their home lab builds, server hardware, storage and networking setups, and help each other with them. | Unknown | |
| r/opensource | A community for everything open source, using the standard definition of open source. | Reported by several sources | |
| r/selfhosted | A place to share, find, discuss and critique self-hosted alternatives to common web apps and online services, and to help each other run them. | Reported by several sources | |
| r/reactjs | A community for anything related to the React UI library and its ecosystem; it points to an external Discord for more discussion. | Reported by several sources | |
| r/devops | Practitioners discuss DevOps work: cloud infrastructure, tooling, incidents, architecture, observability and security, plus fatigue and on-call life. | Reported by several sources | |
| r/LocalLLaMA | The main Reddit community for running open-weight models locally: model releases, inference engines, quantization and hardware. | Unknown | |
| r/node | An unofficial Node.js community for discussing Node, JavaScript, TypeScript and the wider Node ecosystem. | Reported by one source | |
| r/webdev | A general web development community for both front-end and back-end work; design-focused questions are pointed to a separate web design community. | Reported by several sources | |
| r/SideProject | A place to share side projects and get constructive feedback on them. It is the most launch-friendly of the large founder communities, so most threads are makers showing something they built. | Reported by several sources |