Lemmy

A link aggregator / reddit clone for the fediverse.

Lemmy Dev instance for testing purposes only

This is a very early beta version, and a lot of features are currently broken or missing.

Features

• Self hostable, easy to deploy.
  • Comes with docker.
• Open source.
• Live-updating Comment threads.
• Clean, minimal interface.
  • Mobile-friendly.
• Full vote scores (+/-) like old reddit.
• Full moderation.
  • Both site admins, and community moderators.
  • Can lock, remove, and restore posts.
  • Can remove and restore comments.
• High performance.
  • Server is written in rust.
  • Front end is ~80kB gzipped.

About

Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, lobste.rs, Raddle, or Hacker News. Behind the scenes, it is very different; It allows anyone to run a server (instance), and all instances are federated, and similar to Mastodon, connected to the same universe. For a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to forums on any other Lemmy instance, and can have discussions with users registered on any number of instances.

Why's it called Lemmy?

• Lead singer from motorhead.
• The old school video game.
• The furry rodents.

Made with Rust, Actix, Inferno, Typescript and Diesel

Install

Docker

Make sure you have both docker and docker-compose installed.

git clone https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy
cd lemmy
./docker_update.sh # This pulls the newest version, builds and runs it

and goto http://localhost:8536

Local Development

Requirements

• Rust
• Yarn
• Postgres

Set up Postgres DB

 psql -c "create user rrr with password 'rrr' superuser;" -U postgres
 psql -c 'create database rrr with owner rrr;' -U postgres

Running

git clone https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy
cd lemmy
./install.sh
# For live coding, where both the front and back end, automagically reload on any save, do:
# cd ui && yarn start
# cd server && cargo watch -x run

and goto http://localhost:8536

Documentation

• ActivityPub API.md
• Goals
• Ranking Algorithm

Support

Support the development, and help cover hosting costs.

• Patreon
• bitcoin: bc1queu73nwuheqtsp65nyh5hf4jr533r8rr5nsj75
• ethereum: 0x400c96c96acbC6E7B3B43B1dc1BB446540a88A01

Credits

Icons made by Freepik licensed by CC 3.0