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.

usernamesAreTricky,

Few different questions/comments

When creating my username, it seemed to spin endlessly if I had any minuses in my name? Is that a known issue or maybe it was just having issues with demand and coincidentally worked when I removed any minuses?

Are upvotes/downvotes federated like posts are or are you only able to see the upvotes from your instance?

Also for looking for communities are you supposed to be able to change how it sorts them? Because it looks like you should be able to click on the columns, however, clicking on those (at least in Firefox) doesn't seem to do anything

nutomic,
@nutomic@lemmy.ml avatar

Minus is not allowed, only underscore. But it should show an error, can you open an issue for that in lemmy-ui repo?

Votes are federated.

And community sort options are probably not implemented, I think theres an issue for that in lemmy-ui.

usernamesAreTricky,

Looks like there's already a similar issue for the endless spinning thing when errors occur https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/988

CannotSleep420,

I think your username was invalid. Unfortunately, the web UI currently doesn't have client side validation for that to make the issue more transparent.

TacoThrash3r,

Here is my only question. I'm in browser right now, is there a pwa I can install or do I need a mobile app?

EnglishMobster,
@EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml avatar

There is mlem for IOS and Jerboa for Android.

LostRedditor,

I couldn’t find Mlem in the App Store. How can I download it?

Never mind.. I found the test flight invite in their github page

Haunting_Tale_5150,

Hello! I just joined after hearing about the whole api thing. I heard it's possible to connect Lemmy with Mastodon. Is that true? Pretty cool if it is. Either way I am interested to see how this goes.

dessalines,

@Haunting_Tale_5150 @nutomic This is a reply from my masto account.

reliving,

@dessalines @Haunting_Tale_5150 @nutomic That's so cool!

anityatva,

Hi everyone, I heard about the legendary digg exodus many times (I joined reddit in 2013). I have to say it's strange to be a part of this one.

Are there any good iOS clients for lemmy? I found https://github.com/uuttff8/Remmel but it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while, and it's also not available on most of the app stores.

EnglishMobster,
@EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml avatar

I'm an Android user, but /u/parentis_shotgun on Reddit mentioned mlem as the IOS app.

I'm using jerboa.

anityatva,

thank you!

Spacebar,

I'm digging Jerboa

Rentlar,

Interestingly, Reddit was open-source between 2008-2017. I’m hoping we can kind of re-capture the feeling of old Reddit without botspam, adspam, and more focus on community and improving experience than on “premium features” and monetization.

SandbankElephant,

You mean to say you don’t want to spend thousands on avatars?

Rentlar,

Hahaha that’s one of those things. “Look at me, I spent a bunch of money to get a bored looking monkey face, it’s exclusive!!!”

Sparsin,

Let me know how I can help. I brought a lot of traffic to reddit, just to find out reddit admins are more sensitive than the mods that work for free.

I spoke up how poorly their mobile app changed towards modding on mobile, instead of taking the issues at hand they limited my number of subbreddits I could moderate.

I have knowledge in automod if that's a feature here, also I am pretty fast at finding information.

TLDR - fuck reddit here to help.

nutomic,
@nutomic@lemmy.ml avatar

It sounds like you might be interested to host a new Lemmy instance. Right now the number of instances is still limited, and most of them cover niche topics. So it would definitely be good to have a Lemmy instance that is more mainstream. Hosting an instance requires some technical knowledge, but you can always ask for help in /c/lemmy_support or find someone else to take care of that aspect.

Sparsin,

Appreciate it, there is a lot more to the story. Will make a great read and will make it a lemmy exclusive, because right now reddit admins are trying to keep it hush hush.

Can't wait to get it all written up, on a more appropriate name.

elight,

From an adoption standpoint: is there anything resembling a mapping of Reddit "subreddits" to Lemmy "communities"? It would sure help the migration process for users seeking to stay with their communities!

Though I suppose, perversely, such a directory could also be a target for Reddit. But then having such problems would be interesting (for Reddit).

ClumsyHacker,

I'm a bit confused as to how federation works.

I have an account here, and see a community I want to join in another instance... but I the login option only lets me log in with an account on that instance.

Is participating in communities cross-instance not possible yet?

bobpaul,

One way is put the URL of the community you want to follow in the search box; that's how I'm able to follow /c/lemmy from lemmy.ml on the mastedon server I'm using.

Since you're on a lemmy server, you can also switch between Subscribed, Local, and All at the top of the main feed. "All" is all communities from all federated instances that someone on your home instance already subscribes to. If you see something in the All feed you like, you can join that community from there.

elight,

Ok, so it's all ActivityPub. But you did precisely what to follow a lemmy community from Mastodon? Examples would be hugely helpful for those of us who are also using Mastodon!

elight,

Figured it out. Literally @ as a user search. Not sure how the content will look. Or comments.

bobpaul,

I did what I said... I put the "URL of the community" (https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy) into the search on my mastodon server.

It sounds like you found a shorthand.

Arfuirl,

Thanks for the welcome, hope this alternative its actually good and with freddom , without the degeneration of Reddit

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,
@Amir@lemmy.ml avatar

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

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.

Jasmor,

Hello!

Whaines,

FYI The link to the list of instances is being flagged by both my browser and my ISP as unsafe.

finickydesert,
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Will there be flairs for sub Lemmings?

nutomic,
@nutomic@lemmy.ml avatar

There is an open issue, contributions welcome!

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1456

audricd,

Good to see this place. Hope to see it grow.

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