Lemmy
Federated link aggregator and Reddit alternative built with Rust
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.
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Lemmy information
- Developed byDessalines
- LicensingOpen Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4
- Alternatives35 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 7,395 Stars
- 449 Forks
- 159 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- News Reader
- Social Network
- Social News
- Link Aggregator
- vote
Lightweight interface that is fast like lightning as well as open source and federated. What is there not to love?
Lemmy is a great alternative to Reddit. It allows anyone to create their communities and everything reddit is for.
It seems to me that having some sort of censorship is absolutely unacceptable. I'm not really sure how this is any better than Reddit
There isn't any censorship, you know? It is federated, this means that you can create your own server, where you will be in charge.
Reply written ago
It has a slur filter without a way to opt out or even edit the list from admin UI. Of course, you can still edit your instance's sources but that just shows the devs' petty tyrant vibes.
Reply written ago
In the .hjson file there's a slur_filter that you can edit/delete to your heart's content
Reply written ago
Great website with a great community, and it is the best Reddit alternative I found. The community is still small, but if you join, you'll find yourself enjoying the warm community feel. Site is very fast and simple to use as well.
Decentralized and federated app.
I'm one of the creators of lemmy so I'm a bit biased ;) , but I'm happy so many people like it besides me!
You aren't biased, you're blessed. ;)
Reply written ago
I think Reddit is a much better platform, especially for promoting my business and ideas.