Welcome Reddit refugees!

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 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.

swarrior216,

Hello everybody! I was a Digg refuge, now I'm a Reddit refuge. This is pretty neat that its not funded by a company and relies on volunteers. I think this is going to be a good place. I was wondering if there is an app for IOS?

Surreal, (edited )

Would love a native iOS application. Maybe @christianselig could be convinced as the brilliant creator of Apollo!

JetpackJackson,
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Thanks for the welcome! This place seems really cool and I really like it here so far, I hope I can contribute some way in the future.

TerrorBite,
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@nutomic I'm a heavy Reddit user, but exclusively through a third party client, and now I'm considering signing up for Lemmy. In the meantime, let's see if I can participate from here?

TerrorBite,
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Well that seemed to work

Haunting_Tale_5150,

Show me your ways! I am new to this

TerrorBite,
@TerrorBite@meow.social avatar

Also I followed @lemmy (which for you is !lemmy I think?) under the assumption that it would boost new posts from that community into my feed.

What it actually did was boost every single comment on every single post into my feed.

TerrorBite,
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I have to browse Lemmy's web interface to view posts, then to reply I can copy the link to a post or comment, and paste that into the search bar of my Mastodon instance. This loads the post/comment as a Mastodon post which I can then reply to.

From there, everything (notifications, replies, etc) works like any other Mastodon thread on my end.

Haunting_Tale_5150,

Alrighty thanks! Now time to figure out the easiest way to cross post. So far Casskey and Akkoma are a no go lol. Guess it's time to make a vanilla mastodon.

haunting_tale,

@Haunting_Tale_5150 @TerrorBite test

Haunting_Tale_5150,

Nice! Now I have a way to lemmy when its down/on the go until some apps are ready

Bryggyth,

Thanks for the welcome! I'm loving the idea of the fediverse and I really hope lemmy can help recreate some of the enjoyment I used to get from Reddit.

ikiru,

Thank you all for welcoming us!

bankimu,

Yeah this is great. Reddit was also formed like this before they lost their way. I love that lemmy is open source and... is it decentralized? Have to read. Either way I really like that this is yet a small community but the posts are smart and the comments are interesting. I think this will be great.

iod,
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yes it's decentralized. And also federated, meaning it can interact with other software like Mastodon or kbin

jarfil,

How does the interaction work?

iod,
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Well if you have a mastodon account, which works far more like a twitter feed, you can also subscribe to a lemmy community on any instance and you'll get all posts and comments from that sub as a mastodon post in your timeline. it's a bit not very useful i'd say in its current implementation but hey, pretty cool.

you can also post to any kbin community and interact with the comments but that's far closer to the reddit model so a bit less alien.

privacyphreak,

Happy to see a federated version of what Reddit should be. Keep up the good work!

Cowabunghole,

Hi! I've been thinking about jumping ship on reddit for a while, and I think lemmy is looking really promising. Here's hoping it takes off and becomes popular (but not too popular)!

Amir,
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If it becomes too popular it's very easy to make a new, less popular niche server since everything is open source and decentralized

lg9001,

Hi everyone! Thanks for the safe haven, I don't want to see Reddit gradually kill itself anymore. Glad to be here!

zergling_man,

Might as well shill my client, clemmy here. 🕶

XLRV,
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Idk why but I can't access your link

zergling_man,

worksforme. What's it failing on?

XLRV,
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The site is stuck loading, I'm on mobile btw

youessbee,

I created the askreddit that asked for alts to Reddit and decided to try this recommendation! Looking forward to giving this a go!

Squiglet,

Would be nice to have all 3rd party apps adhering to lemmy that would be a bg fuck you to reddit and would bring so many people here.

KanyeLoveTaylor,

It's about time. They will

chucha,

Testing, is this on?

Amir,
@Amir@lemmy.ml avatar

I can see your comment so yes I guess?

Macc,

Hi!

Skotic,

Testing.. 1, 4. I wanna figure all this out before i invest in setting up my own :D

KanyeLoveTaylor,

I know the site couple of weeks ago, especially after Reddit makes a very bad decision (everything just gets worse), and decided to sign up today. I hope this community becomes huge and people can contribute in a very good way.

seirim,
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Hi, newbie here :-) How do we see all the posts on a topic like technology, but not just on Lemmy.ml where I happened to join, but from all over the "fediverse"? Could there be big discussions going on on other servers I'd just miss? How to get the complete bird's eye view on a topic across all of Lemmy?

Xer0,

I have a feeling this is kind of the way the fediverse will go. Click something that interests you, and it'll show every post across all instances / sites. Hopefully.

iod,
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yep. Topics, tags or whatever else that groups up related communities would be useful. For now this isnt supported but i'd also say while lemmy is still small, subbing to all subs that interest you here and on beehaw should be enough not to miss much imo.

Xer0,

Thanks for accepting my sign up! Really excited for this place. I had an account on mastodon but I much prefer this reddit-style type of site to a twitter clone. Looking forward to having a good dig around this site.

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