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Lemmy
Developer(s)LemmyNet[1]
Initial releaseMay 5, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-05-05)[2]
Stable release
v0.17.4 / June 13, 2023; 17 months ago (2023-06-13)
Repositoryhttps://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Written inRust, Actix, Diesel, Inferno, Typescript[3]
TypeSocial news
LicenseAGPL3[4]
Websitejoin-lemmy.org

Lemmy is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social news aggregation and discussion forums, which has similar features to Reddit and Hacker News.[5][6][7] Lemmy instances are run by different individuals or corporations, each with their own content moderation policies.[8] Users on individual instances submit posts with links, text, or pictures to user-created boards called “communities”. Communities are user created and local to each instance, however they may be posted to from other instances. Using a system of upvotes and downvotes users can influence what content appears at the top of the main feeds and of each community. Moderation is conducted by admins of each instance and moderators of specific communities.[9] A list of communities can be found in the Community-Browser[10] and the Explorer.[11]

Lemmy is part of the Fediverse which allows users from other platforms to interact with posts created by Lemmy users. ActivityPub is the protocol used to allow Lemmy instances to operate as a federated social network and allows users to interact with compatible platforms including Mastodon and PeerTube.[12]

Lemmy was created by the user Dessalines on GitHub in February 2019[13] and licensed under the Affero General Public License. It is crowdfunded by individual donations[14] and also receives funding through NLnet's NGI0 Discovery Fund.[6]

Overview

Lemmy comprises user-generated content and discussions about the content in an internet forum. According to Lemmy, all 206 instances of Lemmy have a collective 5.6 thousand monthly active users.[15] The "lemmyverse" is broken up into instances, which can be hosted by anyone, and further subdivided into communities. The most popular instances are lemmy.ml and lemmy.world, each with 3.2 and 5.6 thousand monthly active users respectively.[15]

Registering an account on any particular instance is free and may require an email address or approval by the admin of the instance. Registering an account allows a user to post to communities and, on some instances, to create new communities. Accounts on ActivityPub-compatible software are able to interact with Lemmy posts but may not be able to post to communities directly.

Communities are user-created forums for discussions. They are an integral part of Lemmy, as users must post their link, image or discussion to a specific community. Community names begin with c/ in the URL and are uniquely mentionable using this format: !community@instance.[16]

Client apps for mobile devices include Jerboa for Android,[17] and Remmel for iOS and beta client Mlem available via TestFlight [18]

References

  1. ^ "LemmyNet". GitHub. Archived from the original on December 24, 2022. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
  2. ^ "Release v0.0.5 Release". GitHub. May 5, 2019. Archived from the original on June 6, 2023. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  3. ^ "About the project". Archived from the original on January 19, 2023. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
  4. ^ "License file in source code". February 14, 2019. Archived from the original on December 23, 2022. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  5. ^ Dessalines. "About Lemmy". join-lemmy.org. Archived from the original on January 9, 2023. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
  6. ^ a b "NLnet; Lemmy". nlnet.nl. Archived from the original on December 23, 2022. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  7. ^ "The 10 best Reddit alternatives to try". Android Authority. April 8, 2021. Archived from the original on November 10, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  8. ^ "Top 11 Best Open Source Forum Software to Self Host [2021]". It's FOSS. Archived from the original on November 10, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  9. ^ "Korben.info: Lemmy – Le clone de Reddit libre et fédéré". Korben.info (in French). Archived from the original on November 29, 2021. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
  10. ^ "Lemmy Community-Browser". browse.feddit.de. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
  11. ^ "Lemmy Explorer". lemmyverse.net. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
  12. ^ "Lemmy - A link aggregator for the fediverse". join-lemmy.org. Archived from the original on December 22, 2022. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  13. ^ "Commits". GitHub. February 14, 2019. Archived from the original on June 7, 2023. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  14. ^ "Lemmy's profile". Liberapay. Archived from the original on November 10, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  15. ^ a b "the federation - a statistics hub". the-federation.info. Archived from the original on June 15, 2023. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
  16. ^ "Getting started with Federation". Lemmy documentation. Archived from the original on February 4, 2023. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  17. ^ "Jerboa for Lemmy | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository". f-droid.org. Archived from the original on December 30, 2022. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
  18. ^ "Remmel for Lemmy". App Store. Archived from the original on November 10, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
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