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Lemmy

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Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

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We are happy to see that many of you are exploring Lemmy after Reddit announced changes to its API policy. I maintain this project alongside @dessalines@lemmy.ml.

Lemmy is similar to Reddit in many ways, but there is also a major difference: Its not only a single website, but consists of many different websites which are interconnected through federation. This is achieved with the ActivityPub protocol which is also used by Mastodon. It means that you can sign up on any Lemmy instance to interact with users and communities on other instances. The project website has a list of instances which all have their own rules and administrators. We recommend that you sign up on one of them, to avoid overt centralization on lemmy.ml.

Another difference compared to Reddit is that Lemmy is open source, and not funded by any company. For this reason it relies on volunteer work to make the project better, whether it's programming, design, documentation, translating, reporting issues or others. See the contributing guide to get started. You can also donate to support development.

We also recommend that you read the documentation. It explains how Lemmy works and how to setup your own Lemmy instance. Running an instance gives you full control over the rules and moderation, and prevents us developers from having any influence. Especially large communities that want to use Lemmy should host their own instance, because existing Lemmy instances would easily be overwhelmed by a large number of new users.

Enjoy your time here! If you have any questions, feel free to ask below or in the Matrix chat.

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[–] Mordiken@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Lemmy looks great, I hope it manages to comes out on top on the upcomming battle of the reddit alternatives because due to it's decentralized nature it's pretty much impossible for lemmy to go south like reddit and digg.

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[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Imo lemmy seems to have more features than Reddit also, like editing post titles, having text alongside an image post, using third party apps (which will stop soon with Reddit) etc. Reddit is very slow to add updates that make sense, but lemmy moves fast and is a great piece of software.

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

This post alone now has as many upvotes as I saw someone on Reddit claim Lemmy had total users.

[–] nullthegrey@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've had my account only for about 30 minutes and I can see this fully replacing reddit for me. Here's to the future!

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you know how to create new sublemmys? I want to copy my favourite subreddits and tell people to migrate here. Do I need to buy a literal server?

[–] DarraignTheSane@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If you're talking about the equivalent of a subreddit here on lemmy.ml, that's just called a "community". Click the "Create Community" link up at the top of the site. If you want to create your own whole Lemmy site with its own communities you can do that too, but you'd have to read the documentation on that.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Also, do you know how to view communities from multiple servers in the Jeboa app?

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[–] BlazingFlames6073@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Anybody know if we had a spike of new users and activitiy here after reddit's announcement?

I joined lemmy like a week before reddit's announcement after checking it every now and then for months. I didn't see so many comments and upvotes on posts last week.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

We definitely did have a spike in registrations here at least. One of the only ways people find out about lemmy is when it gets cross-posted. We could really use more news articles about it tho on open-source / privacy related spaces.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lemmy is fun!

slides £20 over to the reddit enhancement suite team to come over

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[–] 018118055@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cancelled my Reddit premium renewal (it's 10 months away but still...) and donated with the link above.

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[–] Barbarian@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hi all! Happy to be here. Been thinking about moving to an open source federated reddit-like for a while now, and the imminent death of RiF is what finally pushed me to sign up. Spent the last hour or so poking around different communities, and like what I see.

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[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the way. As a bit of a Reddit-addict I hope Lemmy (and perhaps other interoperable projects one day?) will take off. Centralized social media sites appear to be doomed to inevitable self-destruction. Protocols can survive.

Like Mastodon and other ActivityPub applications however, it is the Federated nature which IMO still needs some work. Not being able to easily browse remote communities, posts, scores, comments, etc. from the comfort of my home instance (which will also be the only portal to the federated world visible to mobile applications) is a problem. On Mastodon I often don't see all replies, and likewise on Lemmy I don't see any comments to this post yet.

I hope ActivityPub apps figure out a way to better synchronize remote and local state so users won't keep seeing incomplete/fragmented views of Fedi content.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Someone did create this Lemmy community browser, which searches all known instances for any community. It might be useful to integrate that into lemmy, or at least link to it, in some way, to help people discover communities not on their own instance already.

[–] bec@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the welcome! Hopefully Lemmy will grow with the Reddit changes, I wanted to join a while back but the lack of users held me back; since the news I decided to join anyway, and hopefully others will do the same!

One question: I'm browsing via Lemmy app downloaded straight from GitHub, but some posts don't show the comments, even though I see there are several and if I use the browser everything is there. Bug? User error? Thanks in advance!

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It might have something to do with the language settings introduced with the latest update?? It's unintuitive for me.

[–] bec@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No idea, I'm here since a couple of days lol

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you go to the settings on the webpage ( https://lemmy.ml/settings ), is "Undetermined" enabled in the language menu?

The posts you're seeing might also simply have comments in languages that you don't know (and have rightfully disabled in the settings).

[–] bec@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the help! I checked and English is enabled. The comments I was referring to are in English so I don't think it's that. Thanks!

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[–] davidgro@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I just wasted a ton of time trying to create an account here and it not working before realizing that I already made one nearly 3 years ago. Fun times. At least I'm here now. I'm also really scared/frustrated with the direction Reddit is going.

[–] Spacebar@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How many people will you actually miss from Reddit once this takes off?

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[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Something I just found out in the Settings page that I wish existed in every social media site: you can turn off scores!

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