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Lemmy

87 points by acqbu 4y ago

arpa 4y ago
nice reddit clone
- Zak 4y ago
  What's interesting about this is not that it's a reddit clone, of which there is no shortage, but that it's a federated reddit clone. It speaks ActivityPub, the protocol used by Mastodon.
  - gardenhedge 4y ago
    Why is that interesting?
    - Zak 4y ago
      The potential for a shift from online interaction mostly taking place in centralized, corporate-owned systems to federated ones without any centralized control is interesting. In the previous shift from small siloed websites to big centralized services, reddit largely replaced message boards, and a large-scale shift to federated systems will require a replacement for that. That's not to imply a shift to federated systems is inevitable, though I do consider it desirable.
- speed_spread 4y ago
  Would be sad if something happened to it...
megatoaster 4y ago
What is this?
interroboink 4y ago
I struggled to determine what exactly this was, at first. The docs[1] are fairly clear, though: "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. ... Note: Federation is still in active development" Also a useful post: "What is lemmy.ml"[2] [1] https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html [2] https://lemmy.ml/post/70280 https://lemmy.ml/post/70280
mgiampapa 4y ago
https://join-lemmy.org/ https://join-lemmy.org/ would be an infinitely more useful starting point to discuss what lemmy is.
- RobotToaster 4y ago
  Worth noting that list misses off a few more popular instances https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
  - gs17 4y ago
    A lot of "This server is not accepting new users" in there.
    - smorks 4y ago
      I don't believe that's accurate. a lot of instances do have a registration questionnaire required however, mostly to combat spam, similar to some mastodon intsances.
- recuter 4y ago
  Consider calling in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3J8FYKZ52w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3J8FYKZ52w
mmanfrin 4y ago
Mastodon:Twitter::Lemmy:Reddit
razakel 4y ago
Does it like to gamble?
- taylorius 4y ago
  It's all the same to me.
mogoh 4y ago
The lemmy-network is (for now) full of tankies. Just look at this: https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/TopMonth/page/1 https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/T...
- ozarker 4y ago
  I mean there’s a lot of that on Reddit too. Check out r/sino
- aloisdg 4y ago
  Well you can start your own instance.
  - gs17 4y ago
    But if the federation is largely people you won't want to interact with (or who refuse to interact with you), that just puts you on a version of Reddit with no other users.
- capableweb 4y ago
  [flagged]
- nerdponx 4y ago
  And Pleroma is full of whatever the polar opposite of a tankie is (not going to use the "f" word but you know who I mean). It's not too surprising that the political allegiances of the core developers affect who is and isn't interested in joining the network.
- cced 4y ago
  You're egging and reducing a website because it has leftists on it while the paragons of personal responsibility, efficient markets, and the banking system are having a meltdown and getting a bailout. Remind me again what government handouts and interventions are? I don't understand the point of a comment like "there are leftists that use this website".
  - 4y ago
r721 4y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615058 (223 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438493 (190 comments)
- dang 4y ago
  Thanks! Macroexpanded: Lemmy: A Federated Reddit Alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615058 - Nov 2022 (215 comments) LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438493 - Nov 2022 (186 comments) Open Source federated link aggregator in rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31712332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31712332 - June 2022 (37 comments) Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266003 - Nov 2021 (48 comments) Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453165 - Sept 2021 (213 comments) Lemmy a federated, open-source and privacy alternative to Reddit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24393689 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24393689 - Sept 2020 (9 comments) Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23664067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23664067 - June 2020 (634 comments) AMA about Lemmy, an open source, Federated alternative to Reddit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23389622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23389622 - June 2020 (4 comments) Note: Reposts are fine after a year or so, but when a story has had significant attention in the past year, we mark reposts as a dupe. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19686972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19686972 - April 2019 (99 comments)
fisherjeff 4y ago
Ah man, I misremembered the name of the Lenny chatbot[0] and thought based on the URL that someone had created, like, a ChatGPT version him. Oh well. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_(bot) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_(bot)
IncRnd 4y ago
Now, we just need Lenny [1] to read the stories on Lemmy, and the circle will get completed. [1] https://www.lennytroll.com/ https://www.lennytroll.com/
muyuu 4y ago
Lemmy doesn't seem to offer anything to me. It probably offers something tangible to certain groups with opinions that are not well represented elsewhere. The fact that it's federated under the hood is not a feature that would matter for most people, at least as far as I can see. If it meant that I can easily move my conversation elsewhere then yea I can see that, but I really can't, and it only further divides my comments across yet another silo. Would be happy to be corrected if I'm wrong about my impression.
college_physics 4y ago
Honestly the current content is not doing the platform any favors. Who wants another social media option that ranges from the inane to the toxic? Reddit like forums, open source self-hosting, federation, these are all good points but people need to see how they make a difference in practice. Mastodon somehow managed to be seen as a less toxic version of twitter, though it might be mostly peoples wish than anything intrinsic to the platform. But all new entrants in the fediverse party will have to think how to convince people that social media are actually worth the hassle
- Zak 4y ago
  It's probably as much to do with the people as anything about the software. I have the impression Gargron set out to create a less toxic version of twitter and the early users he attracted were people who wanted a less toxic version of twitter. Many of the later users were people who liked interacting with those early users. It appears Lemmy may have been created by people who wanted a version of reddit for militant communists, which might tend to discourage anyone who doesn't want to talk to militant communists from adopting it.

Lemmy

87 points by acqbu 4y ago

arpa 4y ago

nice reddit clone

Zak 4y ago
What's interesting about this is not that it's a reddit clone, of which there is no shortage, but that it's a federated reddit clone. It speaks ActivityPub, the protocol used by Mastodon.
- gardenhedge 4y ago
  Why is that interesting?
  - Zak 4y ago
    The potential for a shift from online interaction mostly taking place in centralized, corporate-owned systems to federated ones without any centralized control is interesting. In the previous shift from small siloed websites to big centralized services, reddit largely replaced message boards, and a large-scale shift to federated systems will require a replacement for that. That's not to imply a shift to federated systems is inevitable, though I do consider it desirable.
speed_spread 4y ago
Would be sad if something happened to it...

megatoaster 4y ago

What is this?

interroboink 4y ago

I struggled to determine what exactly this was, at first. The docs[1] are fairly clear, though: "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. ... Note: Federation is still in active development" Also a useful post: "What is lemmy.ml"[2] [1] https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html [2] https://lemmy.ml/post/70280 https://lemmy.ml/post/70280

mgiampapa 4y ago

https://join-lemmy.org/ https://join-lemmy.org/ would be an infinitely more useful starting point to discuss what lemmy is.

RobotToaster 4y ago
Worth noting that list misses off a few more popular instances https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
- gs17 4y ago
  A lot of "This server is not accepting new users" in there.
  - smorks 4y ago
    I don't believe that's accurate. a lot of instances do have a registration questionnaire required however, mostly to combat spam, similar to some mastodon intsances.
recuter 4y ago
Consider calling in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3J8FYKZ52w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3J8FYKZ52w

mmanfrin 4y ago

Mastodon:Twitter::Lemmy:Reddit

razakel 4y ago

Does it like to gamble?

taylorius 4y ago
It's all the same to me.

mogoh 4y ago

The lemmy-network is (for now) full of tankies. Just look at this: https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/TopMonth/page/1 https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/T...

ozarker 4y ago
I mean there’s a lot of that on Reddit too. Check out r/sino
aloisdg 4y ago
Well you can start your own instance.
- gs17 4y ago
  But if the federation is largely people you won't want to interact with (or who refuse to interact with you), that just puts you on a version of Reddit with no other users.
capableweb 4y ago
[flagged]
nerdponx 4y ago
And Pleroma is full of whatever the polar opposite of a tankie is (not going to use the "f" word but you know who I mean). It's not too surprising that the political allegiances of the core developers affect who is and isn't interested in joining the network.
cced 4y ago
You're egging and reducing a website because it has leftists on it while the paragons of personal responsibility, efficient markets, and the banking system are having a meltdown and getting a bailout. Remind me again what government handouts and interventions are? I don't understand the point of a comment like "there are leftists that use this website".
- 4y ago

r721 4y ago

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615058 (223 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438493 (190 comments)

dang 4y ago
Thanks! Macroexpanded: Lemmy: A Federated Reddit Alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615058 - Nov 2022 (215 comments) LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438493 - Nov 2022 (186 comments) Open Source federated link aggregator in rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31712332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31712332 - June 2022 (37 comments) Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266003 - Nov 2021 (48 comments) Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453165 - Sept 2021 (213 comments) Lemmy a federated, open-source and privacy alternative to Reddit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24393689 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24393689 - Sept 2020 (9 comments) Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23664067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23664067 - June 2020 (634 comments) AMA about Lemmy, an open source, Federated alternative to Reddit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23389622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23389622 - June 2020 (4 comments) Note: Reposts are fine after a year or so, but when a story has had significant attention in the past year, we mark reposts as a dupe. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19686972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19686972 - April 2019 (99 comments)

fisherjeff 4y ago

Ah man, I misremembered the name of the Lenny chatbot[0] and thought based on the URL that someone had created, like, a ChatGPT version him. Oh well. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_(bot) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_(bot)

IncRnd 4y ago

Now, we just need Lenny [1] to read the stories on Lemmy, and the circle will get completed. [1] https://www.lennytroll.com/ https://www.lennytroll.com/

muyuu 4y ago

Lemmy doesn't seem to offer anything to me. It probably offers something tangible to certain groups with opinions that are not well represented elsewhere. The fact that it's federated under the hood is not a feature that would matter for most people, at least as far as I can see. If it meant that I can easily move my conversation elsewhere then yea I can see that, but I really can't, and it only further divides my comments across yet another silo. Would be happy to be corrected if I'm wrong about my impression.

college_physics 4y ago

Honestly the current content is not doing the platform any favors. Who wants another social media option that ranges from the inane to the toxic? Reddit like forums, open source self-hosting, federation, these are all good points but people need to see how they make a difference in practice. Mastodon somehow managed to be seen as a less toxic version of twitter, though it might be mostly peoples wish than anything intrinsic to the platform. But all new entrants in the fediverse party will have to think how to convince people that social media are actually worth the hassle

Zak 4y ago
It's probably as much to do with the people as anything about the software. I have the impression Gargron set out to create a less toxic version of twitter and the early users he attracted were people who wanted a less toxic version of twitter. Many of the later users were people who liked interacting with those early users. It appears Lemmy may have been created by people who wanted a version of reddit for militant communists, which might tend to discourage anyone who doesn't want to talk to militant communists from adopting it.