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Lemmy

Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are...

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Platforms

  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Self-Hosted
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Features

Properties

  1.  Decentralized
  2.  Lightweight
  3.  Privacy focused
  4.  Minimalistic
  5.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Federation
  2.  Community-based
  3.  Fediverse
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Threaded Conversations
  6.  Mobile friendly
  7.  No Tracking
  8. ActivityPub icon  Support for ActivityPub
  9.  Dark Mode
  10.  Multiple Account support
  11.  Support for MarkDown
  12.  No registration required
  13.  Support for @mentions
  14.  Two-factor Authentication

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: Lemmy is praised for its decentralized, federated structure, and open-source nature, offering a fast, lightweight interface similar to Reddit. Users appreciate the potential to create communities and enjoy fewer trolls, promoting better privacy. However, concerns exist over its lack of a privacy policy, censorship aspects, and inadequate documentation. While some find it a great Reddit alternative, others criticize its user base and lack of certain Reddit features.
Top Positive Comment
fnadde42
10

Lightweight interface that is fast like lightning as well as open source and federated. What is there not to love?

Top Negative Comment
nunya beezwaks
-4

Beware they still have no privacy policy despite being given plenty of links explaining how to create one & appear to be at least somewhat hostile to "right-wingers" which is precisely why a lot of people have left reddit. An alternative with the same issues as the original serves zero purpose.

[Edited by nathalto, August 16]

trollbasics
1

Yet Another Feddi

Like any other flavor of Feddiverse “allows free speech” is their highest moral crime

yeyer11817
1

Probably the most well developed open source reddit alternative, with features added constantly.

reading posts incrementally is still too hard unlike reddit with reddit enhancement suite (which has a few other nice features that lemmy does not have yet).

spame
-7

Cool application but the user base sucks

Riska Asmara

indeed. full of radical commie.

possum
-1

Lemmy is just as fun and interactive as Reddit, but with better privacy and less trolls.

mibnv
4

Federated alternative to Reddit

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What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

For a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to forums on any other server, and can have discussions with users registered elsewhere.

The overall goal is to create an easily self-hostable, decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators, outside of their corporate control and meddling.

Each Lemmy server can set its own moderation policy; appointing site-wide admins, and community moderators to keep out the trolls, and foster a healthy, non-toxic environment where all can feel comfortable contributing.

Features:

  • Open source, AGPL License.
  • Self hostable, easy to deploy.
  • Comes with Docker and Ansible.
  • Clean, mobile-friendly interface.
  • Only username and password are required to sign up!
  • User avatar support.
  • Live-updating Comment threads.
  • Full vote scores (+/-) like old Reddit.
  • Themes, including light, dark, and solarized.
  • Emojis with autocomplete support. Start typing :
  • User tagging using @, Community tagging using !.
  • Integrated image uploading in both posts and comments.
  • Flexible posts can consist of a title and a combination of self text, URL, or nothing.
  • Notifications, on comment replies and when you're tagged.
  • Notifications can be sent via email.
  • Private messaging support.
  • i18n / internationalization support.
  • RSS / Atom feeds for All, Subscribed, Inbox, User, and Community.
  • Cross-posting support.
  • Automatic related post search when creating new posts. Great for question / answer communities and reposts.
  • Moderation abilities.
  • Public Moderation Logs.
  • Can sticky posts to the top of communities.
  • Both site admins, and community moderators, who can appoint other moderators.
  • Can lock, remove, and restore posts and comments.
  • Can ban and unban users from communities and the site.
  • Can transfer site and communities to others. Can fully erase your data, replacing all posts and comments. NSFW post / community support.
  • High performance.
  • Server is written in rust.
  • Front end is ~80kB gzipped.
  • Supports arm64 / Raspberry Pi.

Lemmy information

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GitHub repository

  •  14,601 Stars
  •  966 Forks
  •  124 Open Issues
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Our users have written 16 comments and reviews about Lemmy, and it has gotten 212 likes

Lemmy was added to AlternativeTo by David on and this page was last updated .