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Lemmy

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A link aggregator / reddit clone for the fediverse.

Lemmy Dev instance This data is being backed up, and once federation is working, it will be the basis for a main instance.

This is a very early beta version, and a lot of features are currently broken or in active development, such as federation.

Front Page Post
main screen chat screen

Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, Raddle, 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 very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

For a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to forums on any other server, and can have discussions with users registered elsewhere.

The overall goal is to create an easily self-hostable, decentralized alternative to reddit and other link aggregators, outside of their corporate control and meddling.

Each lemmy server can set its own moderation policy; appointing site-wide admins, and community moderators to keep out the trolls, and foster a healthy, non-toxic environment where all can feel comfortable contributing.

Made with Rust, Actix, Inferno, Typescript and Diesel.

Repository Mirrors

Features

  • Open source, AGPL License.
  • Self hostable, easy to deploy.
  • Clean, mobile-friendly interface.
    • Only a minimum of a username and password is required to sign up!
    • User avatar support.
    • Live-updating Comment threads.
    • Full vote scores (+/-) like old reddit.
    • Themes, including light, dark, and solarized.
    • Emojis with autocomplete support. Start typing :
    • User tagging using @, Community tagging using #.
    • Integrated image uploading in both posts and comments.
    • A post can consist of a title and any combination of self text, a URL, or nothing else.
    • Notifications, on comment replies and when you're tagged.
      • Notifications can be sent via email.
    • i18n / internationalization support.
    • RSS / Atom feeds for All, Subscribed, Inbox, User, and Community.
  • Cross-posting support.
    • A similar post search when creating new posts. Great for question / answer communities.
  • Moderation abilities.
    • Public Moderation Logs.
    • Can sticky posts to the top of communities.
    • Both site admins, and community moderators, who can appoint other moderators.
    • Can lock, remove, and restore posts and comments.
    • Can ban and unban users from communities and the site.
    • Can transfer site and communities to others.
  • Can fully erase your data, replacing all posts and comments.
  • NSFW post / community support.
  • High performance.
    • Server is written in rust.
    • Front end is ~80kB gzipped.
    • Supports arm64 / Raspberry Pi.

Why's it called Lemmy?

Install

Docker

Make sure you have both docker and docker-compose(>=1.24.0) installed:

mkdir lemmy/
cd lemmy/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dessalines/lemmy/master/docker/prod/docker-compose.yml
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dessalines/lemmy/master/docker/lemmy.hjson
# Edit lemmy.hjson to do more configuration
docker-compose up -d

and go to http://localhost:8536.

A sample nginx config (Image uploading won't work without this), could be setup with:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dessalines/lemmy/master/ansible/templates/nginx.conf
# Replace the {{ vars }}
sudo mv nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/lemmy.conf

Updating

To update to the newest version, run:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dessalines/lemmy/master/docker/prod/docker-compose.yml
docker-compose up -d

Ansible

First, you need to install Ansible on your local computer (e.g. using sudo apt install ansible) or the equivalent for you platform.

Then run the following commands on your local computer:

git clone https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy.git
cd lemmy/ansible/
cp inventory.example inventory
nano inventory # enter your server, domain, contact email
ansible-playbook lemmy.yml --become

Support / Donate

Lemmy is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever. Your donations directly support full-time development of the project.

Crypto

  • bitcoin: 1Hefs7miXS5ff5Ck5xvmjKjXf5242KzRtK
  • ethereum: 0x400c96c96acbC6E7B3B43B1dc1BB446540a88A01
  • monero: 41taVyY6e1xApqKyMVDRVxJ76sPkfZhALLTjRvVKpaAh2pBd4wv9RgYj1tSPrx8wc6iE1uWUfjtQdTmTy2FGMeChGVKPQuV

Translations

If you'd like to add translations, take a look at the English translation file.

  • Languages supported: Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br), Catalan, (ca), Farsi (fa), English (en), Chinese (zh), Dutch (nl), Esperanto (eo), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), German (de), Russian (ru), Italian (it).
lang done missing
ca 98% cross_posted_to,old,support_on_liberapay,time,action
de 86% cross_posted_to,create_private_message,send_secure_message,send_message,message,avatar,upload_avatar,show_avatars,old,docs,message_sent,messages,old_password,matrix_user_id,private_message_disclaimer,send_notifications_to_email,downvotes_disabled,enable_downvotes,open_registration,registration_closed,enable_nsfw,support_on_liberapay,donate_to_lemmy,donate,from,logged_in,email_already_exists,couldnt_create_private_message,no_private_message_edit_allowed,couldnt_update_private_message,time,action
fa 72% cross_post,cross_posted_to,subscribed_to_communities,trending_communities,create_private_message,send_secure_message,send_message,message,mod,mods,moderates,remove_as_mod,appoint_as_mod,modlog,stickied,ban,ban_from_site,unban,unban_from_site,banned,number_of_subscribers,subscribers,both,saved,unsubscribe,subscribe,subscribed,old,api,docs,inbox,inbox_for,message_sent,notifications_error,messages,no_email_setup,matrix_user_id,private_message_disclaimer,url,body,copy_suggested_title,community,expand_here,subscribe_to_communities,theme,sponsor_message,support_on_liberapay,general_sponsors,joined,by,to,from,landing_0,logged_in,community_moderator_already_exists,community_follower_already_exists,community_user_already_banned,no_slurs,admin_already_created,couldnt_create_private_message,no_private_message_edit_allowed,couldnt_update_private_message,time,action
eo 74% cross_posted_to,number_of_communities,create_private_message,send_secure_message,send_message,message,preview,upload_image,avatar,upload_avatar,show_avatars,formatting_help,view_source,sticky,unsticky,archive_link,stickied,delete_account,delete_account_confirm,banned,creator,number_online,old,docs,replies,mentions,message_sent,messages,old_password,forgot_password,reset_password_mail_sent,password_change,new_password,no_email_setup,matrix_user_id,private_message_disclaimer,send_notifications_to_email,language,browser_default,downvotes_disabled,enable_downvotes,open_registration,registration_closed,enable_nsfw,theme,support_on_liberapay,donate_to_lemmy,donate,from,are_you_sure,yes,no,logged_in,email_already_exists,couldnt_create_private_message,no_private_message_edit_allowed,couldnt_update_private_message,time,action
es 99% cross_posted_to,support_on_liberapay
fi 98% cross_posted_to,old,support_on_liberapay,time,action
fr 81% cross_posted_to,create_private_message,send_secure_message,send_message,message,avatar,upload_avatar,show_avatars,archive_link,old,docs,replies,mentions,message_sent,messages,old_password,forgot_password,reset_password_mail_sent,password_change,new_password,no_email_setup,matrix_user_id,private_message_disclaimer,send_notifications_to_email,language,browser_default,downvotes_disabled,enable_downvotes,open_registration,registration_closed,enable_nsfw,support_on_liberapay,donate_to_lemmy,donate,from,logged_in,email_already_exists,couldnt_create_private_message,no_private_message_edit_allowed,couldnt_update_private_message,time,action
it 82% cross_posted_to,create_private_message,send_secure_message,send_message,message,avatar,upload_avatar,show_avatars,archive_link,old,docs,message_sent,messages,old_password,forgot_password,reset_password_mail_sent,password_change,new_password,no_email_setup,matrix_user_id,private_message_disclaimer,send_notifications_to_email,language,browser_default,downvotes_disabled,enable_downvotes,open_registration,registration_closed,enable_nsfw,support_on_liberapay,donate_to_lemmy,donate,from,logged_in,email_already_exists,couldnt_create_private_message,no_private_message_edit_allowed,couldnt_update_private_message,time,action
nl 98% cross_posted_to,support_on_liberapay,time,action
pt-br 100% support_on_liberapay
ru 70% cross_posts,cross_post,cross_posted_to,number_of_communities,create_private_message,send_secure_message,send_message,message,preview,upload_image,avatar,upload_avatar,show_avatars,formatting_help,view_source,sticky,unsticky,archive_link,stickied,delete_account,delete_account_confirm,banned,creator,number_online,old,docs,replies,mentions,message_sent,messages,old_password,forgot_password,reset_password_mail_sent,password_change,new_password,no_email_setup,matrix_user_id,private_message_disclaimer,send_notifications_to_email,language,browser_default,downvotes_disabled,enable_downvotes,open_registration,registration_closed,enable_nsfw,recent_comments,theme,support_on_liberapay,donate_to_lemmy,donate,monero,by,to,from,transfer_community,transfer_site,are_you_sure,yes,no,logged_in,email_already_exists,couldnt_create_private_message,no_private_message_edit_allowed,couldnt_update_private_message,time,action
sv 81% cross_posted_to,create_private_message,send_secure_message,send_message,message,avatar,upload_avatar,show_avatars,archive_link,old,docs,replies,mentions,message_sent,messages,old_password,forgot_password,reset_password_mail_sent,password_change,new_password,no_email_setup,matrix_user_id,private_message_disclaimer,send_notifications_to_email,language,browser_default,downvotes_disabled,enable_downvotes,open_registration,registration_closed,enable_nsfw,support_on_liberapay,donate_to_lemmy,donate,from,logged_in,email_already_exists,couldnt_create_private_message,no_private_message_edit_allowed,couldnt_update_private_message,time,action
zh 69% cross_posts,cross_post,cross_posted_to,users,number_of_communities,create_private_message,send_secure_message,send_message,message,preview,upload_image,avatar,upload_avatar,show_avatars,formatting_help,view_source,sticky,unsticky,archive_link,settings,stickied,delete_account,delete_account_confirm,banned,creator,number_online,old,docs,replies,mentions,message_sent,messages,old_password,forgot_password,reset_password_mail_sent,password_change,new_password,no_email_setup,matrix_user_id,private_message_disclaimer,send_notifications_to_email,language,browser_default,downvotes_disabled,enable_downvotes,open_registration,registration_closed,enable_nsfw,recent_comments,nsfw,show_nsfw,theme,support_on_liberapay,donate_to_lemmy,donate,monero,by,to,from,transfer_community,transfer_site,are_you_sure,yes,no,logged_in,email_already_exists,couldnt_create_private_message,no_private_message_edit_allowed,couldnt_update_private_message,time,action

If you'd like to update this report, run:

cd ui
ts-node translation_report.ts

Credits

Logo made by Andy Cuccaro (@andycuccaro) under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.