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Lemmy

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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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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • International

Platforms

  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Self-Hosted
4 / 5 Avg rating (25)
172likes
15comments

Features

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Properties

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

Features

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

Lemmy News & Activities

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Recent activities

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    Ituaf added Lemmy as alternative to WatchPeopleLive
    4 days ago
  • xylopire and Azazel liked Lemmy
    27 days ago
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    PotPlant added Lemmy as alternative to Bored
    about 1 month ago
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    f89corp added Lemmy as alternative to Flibbar
    about 1 month ago
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    jdeluxh added Lemmy as alternative to The Internet
    about 1 month ago
  • bunnie, brodertotte88, lyonelbe and master34413 liked Lemmy
    about 1 month ago
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Lemmy information

  • Developed by

    Dessalines
  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4 (25 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    74 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

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GitHub repository

  •  13,847 Stars
  •  926 Forks
  •  143 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 18, 2025 
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Our users have written 15 comments and reviews about Lemmy, and it has gotten 172 likes

Lemmy was added to AlternativeTo by David on Apr 18, 2019 and this page was last updated Jan 14, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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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
Sep 7, 2020
11

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

yeyer11817
Sep 18, 2024
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
Dec 10, 2023
-5

Cool application but the user base sucks

Riska Asmara
Feb 25, 2024

indeed. full of radical commie.

possum
Jul 10, 2023
0

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

mibnv
Jun 10, 2023
5

Federated alternative to Reddit

php4fan
May 25, 2023
-8

Documentation is non-existent; provided installation method doesn't work out of the box. Pathetic.

MarcellusDrum
Sep 27, 2021
3

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.

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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.

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