<p><ahref="https://github.com/LemmyNet">Lemmy</a> is similar to sites like <ahref="https://reddit.com">Reddit</a>, <ahref="https://lobste.rs">Lobste.rs</a>, or <ahref="https://news.ycombinator.com/">Hacker News</a>: you subscribe to communities you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote and comment on them. Lemmy isn't just a reddit alternative; its a network of interconnected communities ran by different people and organizations, all combining to create <b>a single, personalized front page</b> of your favorite news, articles, and memes. </p>
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<p>Lemmy is and will always remain free, <ahref="https://github.com/LemmyNet">open source</a> software, using the strong <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft">copyleft</a><ahref="https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/master/LICENSE">AGPL License</a>.</p>
<p>Made using some of the fastest frameworks and tools, including <ahref="https://www.rust-lang.org">Rust</a>, <ahref="https://actix.rs/">Actix</a>, <ahref="http://diesel.rs/">Diesel</a>, <ahref="https://infernojs.org">Inferno</a>, and <ahref="https://www.typescriptlang.org/">Typescript</a>.</p>
<p>With Lemmy, you can <ahref="/docs/en/administration/administration.html">easily host your own server</a>, and all these servers are <i>federated</i> (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse">Fediverse</a>. For a link aggregator, this means that someone registered on one server can subscribe to communities elsewhere, and can have discussions with people on a completely different server.</p>
<li>Self hostable, easy to deploy, via <ahref="/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html">Docker</a>, or <ahref="/docs/en/administration/install_ansible.html">Ansible</a>.
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