What is Lemmy and how is it?
Discussion
For those that are curious
Are you seeing the info in English when entering the website?
Hah?
Been planning to join it for a bit now. While this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBhDWTZDH9c ) is helpful in explaining how Lemmy works differently than Reddit, I wonder how it is as well.
W3C approved open standard that is reddit-esque. Supposedly promising, though since Reddit make me queasy I'm not really trying much of it. ⚡
W3C isn't, and arguably hasn't been, the arbiter of the open web since approving of EME; as a direct result, it's practically impossible to make a fully functional browser with a free software EME since the only approved ones are controlled by Big Tech.
Hope you mean this Lemmy 😄
Lemmy is a decentralized, open-source platform similar to Reddit. It allows users to share and discuss links. Lemmy emphasizes privacy and is self-hostable, meaning you can host your own Lemmy instance on your server. It also supports interactions between different Lemmy servers.
Lemmy is for Reddit what Mastodon is for Twitter.
Personally, I was disappointed that it doesn’t connect with Mastodon well despite using ActivityPub. And I’ve already seen a server switch admins and shake up their content policies.
My biggest issue with the Fediverse is that I’m required to have a home server and hope that their moderation goals align with mine; otherwise I’m server hopping a lot. I’m more excited about the communities being built on Nostr right now.
Kbin is another alternative with microblogging and compatible with Lemmy and Mastodon. I enjoy all of them to an extent but I feel like ActivityPub is ultimately just an interoperability layer for institutional socialization, like email has become for the most part.
Yes but user goals are different in a link aggregator paradigm built around threaded comments vs microblogging. With microblogging, you care about your pseudonym, your reputation, and you're at the mercy of an admin. If you say something you don't like, good luck moving if they don't want you to, if your server even supports it.
Contrast that with threaded discussions, where most people don't even pay attention to the username of the person they're responding to and people aren't after a reputation. It's nothing to create a new account and jump right back in.
My gripe with Lemmy is not that, or that it's based on AP (which I don't really like, but it serves it's purpose), my gripe is that Lemmy is designed to be an entire Reddit replacement, for each and every server. With a federated architecture this just isn't necessary. Each community can host their own server, every server doesn't need an endless supply of communities, Reddit does because it is one site. What you wind up with is a low signal to noise ratio, a bunch of dead communities, duplicate communities, it just wasn't a well thought out design decision. It was ambitious before thought was put into it.
it costs me $5 a month to host my own along with all my other web services.
It’s a Reddit-esque mastodon type of thing it’s great but low traffic - p sure that’s what you are talking about
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The authors are quite strong on communism and socialism (it's in their profiles), but it's open source and it generally works ok and as you would expect. It's based on ActivityPub, but not that integrated.
I think PixelFed is more interesting (it's a different thing, but as example of activitypub based social network that's not Twitter-like)
lemmy is Actitypub federated Reddit.
It’s ok, but has the same problem other mainstream Activity Pub implementations like Mastodon has, which is micro Statism. i.e “agree with our micro State governance model or piss off”.
You can get around much of this by hosting your own instance, but not everyone has the technical ability to do this.
Can we build Reddit-likes on nostr instead?
Multiple devs are building reddit like solution this week, so I'd say check back next week 😄
A good federated alternative to reddit but Nostr communities like with satellite.earth does mostly the same thing + unlike lemmy you use your public-key so it's more trustless.
I'm on a couple of instances, it's fine for what it is as a reddit alternative, but it's hard to find communities (I guess sub-lemmys?) I'm interested in so far, and some of the instances have kind of bad moderation vibes where they're hyper-aggressive in that mastodon way of assuming users are inherently a threat to the platform.
I think it'd work better if they stayed un-federated beyond pointing to where the largest communities for a given topic reside. I have a password manager I can belong to multiple websites, it's fine who cares, no need to do cross lemmy mod politics.
It is an ActivityPub reddit clone. It's decent but AP has an ID problem IMO https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/src/api_routes_http.rs
As others have said, Lemmy is a federated Reddit alternative. If you're open to Fediverse/ActivityPub, I prefer Kbin, which can federate with Mastodon and Lemmy pretty well.
I host my own instance. I know people are building reddit-like stuff on Nostr too but I like to check out everything. I can see the use case for both.
Fediverse Reddit. It's surprisingly pleasant to use, but being ActivityPub-based it has the same protocol-level issues as Mastodon.
Lemmy is a legend.
Lemmy is the same as Fediverse and/or centralised web. You are in the hands of server owner(s) and their content policy. Nothing different or innovative there. Btw take my remaining sats (altough the amount is too low), and do something good for #nostr. I just zapped you.
Lemmy is federated activity pub enabled reddit
It's alright. It's a link aggregator and threaded discussion server like reddit, but federates overActivityPub. It works fine, it's a good way to move community hosting back to the people that use the web. It isn't perfect but it will do.
I personally prefer Brutalinks https://git.sr.ht/~mariusor/brutalinks because it's single community oriented, but development just didn't happen fast enough compared to lemmy to be ready when reddit put the lid on their coffin. I happen to be partly responsible for this, I was the main promoter Lemmy when development started, and while I'm glad to see it finally having it's day, I think some of the early design decisions were bad and I'm sad that to have this explosion of independent communities happen such that we are stuck with them.
lemmy : https://github.com/LemmyNet ?
It depends, in my country it's a nft and the name of the ceo of an exchange haha.
Thanks for mentioning nostr on your interview with Russel Brand. I am hear b/c or that + my quest to figure out Lemmy!
Its basically where people go to defederate and talk in a echo chamber. Oh it looks like reddit and is made by communist CCP shills.
Lemmy sucks. Too much censorship. Used for a couple days, made one post featuring an article I did on CBDC and alternatives and was banned. Most instances are like this apparently