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Lemmy is an open source, federated forum system similar to Reddit with lots of sites and users: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://lemmyverse.net/ It does not have as many users as Reddit, but a Reddit paywall might drive more users…

comment by thesuperbigfrog · 2025-02-15 · in Reddit CEO says paywalls are coming soon

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy Lemmy is one such alternative. I follow a few instances.

comment by ttt3ts · 2024-10-01 · in Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible

Seems functionally similar to Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

comment by infotainment · 2024-01-09 · in Decentralized Hacker News

…but it seems that the Lemmy devs think it is not necessary. Be a kind soul and show your PR? [0]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3245#issuecomment-1...

comment by rglullis · 2023-09-23 · in Ask HN: How to avoid social media enshitification, if no one pays for it?

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy is a social link aggregator very similar to Reddit, powered by fediverse. Think of it like anyone can host an instance for their community, and all instances can interact with each other. For example check…

comment by LeSaucy · 2023-09-04 · in Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

…is more like Twitter. *Note 4*: It's worth mentioning that Lemmy is young - the Lemmy [devs]( https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy ) are working hard to quickly improve the software, and server admins have been constantly moving to larger…

comment by tikkun · 2023-07-31 · in Ask HN: Which Lemmy communities and instances are you visiting daily?

…by design, one popular community can outweigh hundreds of others, but there's a PR open to fix it. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3378

comment by flutas · 2023-07-14 · in Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon

…developed short of logging into the server and managing the database. https://lemmy.ml/post/1649304 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3281 Building a UI and moderation tools geared to blind users would be good... but it isn't even…

comment by shagie · 2023-07-01 · in Reddit has made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate /r/blind

…on Lemmy’s GitHub about making it easier to combine multiple communities on separate instances: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818 Seems like something they’re thinking about solving.

comment by postpawl · 2023-07-01 · in The problem with federated web apps

…to address usability issues. Development activity exploded when Reddit announced the API changes ( https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/graphs/commit-activity ) and usability issues are discussed daily. Reddit's usability issues were (and…

comment by leetnewb · 2023-07-01 · in Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances

600+ spam bots all defeated the Captcha during signup? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3200#issuecomment-1...

comment by jrflowers · 2023-07-01 · in Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances

…for running self-hosted social news aggregation and discussion forums https://join-lemmy.org/ https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)

comment by boboche · 2023-07-01 · in Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances

…about an issue that the community was decrying for reasons that were almost entirely technical. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622 I would not bed with these fellows myself.

comment by BobbyBrownGD · 2023-07-01 · in Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

…it has to proxy requests because of CORS but it looks like that requirement will be removed soon: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3301

comment by tech234a · 2023-06-27 · in WefWef: An Apollo Clone for Lemmy

…<--- Bunch of tabs at this site https://the-federation.info/platform/73 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/graphs/commit-activity https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/activity/daily <-- Not sure how to generate nice charts from this

comment by gpm · 2023-06-26 · in Reddit makes it impossible to delete PII, refuses to do it itself violating GDPR [video]

Another popular example of rust in web development - https://lemmy.ml/ https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

comment by manaskarekar · 2023-06-25 · in Ask HN: Anyone Using Rust for Web Development?

…is a larger problem than user migration. Here's an issue for Lemmy user/community migration: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057 And here's one for Kbin: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/382 Lemmy seems to have a lot…

comment by egypturnash · 2023-06-21 · in The Federated App Problem

…just because of bugs, idk. It's annoying. - Security: There are some bad security issues [example: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3060 ], which is obvious in the early stages of a piece of complicated software like this. But…

comment by binwiederhier · 2023-06-20 · in Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

comment by sputter_token · 2023-06-20 · in Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

There’s an ongoing discussion about how to better facilitate this here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

comment by erlend_sh · 2023-06-20 · in The Federated App Problem

…likely a hard one), Reddit will always have an advantage since it's built to be more SEO friendly. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/261 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1285

comment by shagie · 2023-06-18 · in Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout

…https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=456&t=239726... [3a] - https://join-lemmy.org/ [3b] - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy [3c] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36376373 [4a] - https://kbin.social/ [4b] -…

comment by LinuxBender · 2023-06-18 · in Ask HN: Forum Software Similar to Reddit?

It's amazing good explainend in the GitHub repository https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

comment by number6 · 2023-06-18 · in Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout

It was made configurable just over a year later. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md#lemm...

comment by lolinder · 2023-06-18 · in Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout

…and are unable to censor what users say. Well, except for when you program the software that way. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1224#issuecomment-7...

comment by faangsticle · 2023-06-18 · in Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout

This hasn't been the case for quite a time https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1773

comment by sirl1on · 2023-06-16 · in Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

…Ones I've liked: Kbin https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core Lotide https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy Brutalinks https://sr.ht/~mariusor/brutalinks/ Those all (are supposed to) federate. I don't think…

comment by friend_and_foe · 2023-06-15 · in Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

…"slur" filter? If it doesn't, then it sounds promising and I see why reddit is afraid. 1: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622

comment by Zuiii · 2023-06-11 · in Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin

…on /r/DataHoarder mentioned these two repos: https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

comment by PythagoRascal · 2023-06-09 · in ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links

That's Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy List of instances to join: https://join-lemmy.org/ List of communities ("subreddits"): https://lemmy.one/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 or https://browse.feddit.de/ - this is not an…

comment by tomstockmail · 2023-06-07 · in Ask HN: Anyone Building a Competitor to Reddit?

…was an architectural priority. The flaw as I see it is that this is just not a design goal. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2877 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2910 You can argue that things can be improved but initially…

comment by riceart · 2023-06-06 · in Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

There's a few projects underway to do just that; I've seen Lemmy [0] being mentioned a lot. [0] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

comment by Cthulhu_ · 2023-06-06 · in Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests

> I hope to see Apollo go down this route. Make it work with https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy would be one idea. I have absolutely no clue how hard this would be though.

comment by habi · 2023-06-01 · in Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

…through the lead devs reasoning behind the "feature" I want no part of that ecosystem. Edit: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622

comment by spurgu · 2023-06-01 · in Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

…could also say "no" to another silo'd instance and instead opt to try running something like Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

comment by Klonoar · 2023-05-31 · in Historical code from reddit.com

…If everyone had their own Lemmy instance it would vastly improve the Internet and social media. [0] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

comment by sysadm1n · 2023-05-18 · in Ask HN: Do you think the future of social media looks like Discord/Reddit?

…these days) Tildes < https://tildes.net >. There's a Federated Reddit alternative as well, Lemmy: < https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy >. Probably others. - Spend your time more wisely. I'm finding online content vastly unrewarding in…

comment by dredmorbius · 2023-04-29 · in Ask HN: Why does Reddit force you login to disable auto play?

…speaking, there's already a very competent open-source and federated replacement for Reddit: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy Socially speaking, perhaps not so much.

comment by darthrupert · 2023-04-19 · in Reddit will begin charging for access to its API

…have other comments here asking for a centralised authority - we have it, it's the developers! [1] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622

comment by brigandish · 2022-11-15 · in Lemmy: A Federated Reddit Alternative

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/816#issuecomment-6446... > Edit: This comment was written at a time when Lemmy the software was practically identical with the lemmy.ml instance. At that time we barely had any moderation tools, so it…

comment by striking · 2022-11-15 · in Lemmy: A Federated Reddit Alternative

…wanting "to make it very difficult for racist trolls to use the most updated version of Lemmy." https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622 This of course is not necessarily a reason to avoid the underlying technology, but it may be…

comment by alexb_ · 2022-11-15 · in Lemmy: A Federated Reddit Alternative

…by side if we can't agree on common rules Maybe Lemmy [1] with a Twitter UI is worth exploring? [1] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

comment by Dowwie · 2022-11-14 · in Scaling Mastodon is impossible

Also note that slur filter is now configurable [1] and seems to be completely optional [2]. [1]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622#issuecomment-89... [2]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/235cc8b22897bfb3e71ba...

comment by notpushkin · 2022-11-03 · in LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board

…bothering us. In regards to the technical side, the original linked github issue was resolved. See: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622 https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/configuration....

comment by nortonham · 2022-11-02 · in LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board

…be) by having user created filters. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/configuration.... https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1481

comment by nortonham · 2022-11-02 · in LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board

It looks like this has been merged 6 days ago. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2492

comment by iruoy · 2022-11-02 · in LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board

> this was (is) the slur filter Was (not is) is correct: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/71aed94a000c951ddfdb4...

comment by gpm · 2022-11-02 · in LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board

In case anyone was wondering, this was (is) the slur filter in question: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/b18ea3e0cc620c3f97f98...

comment by onetimeusename · 2022-11-02 · in LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board

…due to the conduct of the maintainers on the threads regarding the hard-coded slur_filter. See https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622 . When the conversation with the project maintainers goes like: > Hey I don't think a hardcoded…

comment by ufmace · 2022-11-02 · in LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board

https://github.com/LemmyNet/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…

comment by jfkw · 2022-09-09 · in Ask HN: Any open source stack exchange clone