Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by viermalbe on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:29AM
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Bubbles dev here, thanks for the mention
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Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by stakhanov on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:19AM
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I'm curious: What software is driving this? Is it a re-skin of the lobste.rs or HN open source software, or is it its own thing?
EDIT: ...just realized that's in the FAQ.
> Is it open source?
> Not yet. Maybe someday.
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by viermalbe on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:22AM
(#48567836)
It runs on Go + sqlite on a Hetzner machine, built from scratch, not a re-skin.
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by Semaphor on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:33AM
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Clearly inspired by HN, there are few sites where I have to zoom in to get any kind of readability ;)
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by TopHatHipster on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @07:11AM
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What type of Hetzner box are you running this on?
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by embedding-shape on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:34AM
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> not a re-skin
Is that something you're frequently accused of, or why the "disclaimer"?
They were directly answering the post above which asked if it's a re-skin.
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by BrenBarn on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:40AM
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The comment they were replying to specifically asked if it was a re-skin.
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by embedding-shape on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:40AM
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Ah yes of course, finally paid the price of reading comments in isolation. Thanks and sorry :)
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by viermalbe on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:41AM
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Not really, I just picked it up from the initial question from stakhanov.
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by AbuAssar on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:28AM
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how do you decide which blog is included in the aggregation?
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by viermalbe on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:32AM
(#48567908)
You can find the criteria in the FAQ: https://bubbles.town/faq#sources
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by ShinyLeftPad on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:31AM
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try about page, it explains
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by RobotToaster on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:38AM
(#48569587)
Any plans to add Lemmy federation? It would be nice to be able to follow it as a Lemmy community since it works like a federated hn/Reddit.
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
by samtheDamned on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @12:10PM
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This would be really cool. With the process of allowing fediverse logins it would be nice to also be able to use lemmy accounts since right now those don't seem to work. (That might be related to the HN hug though I'm not sure).