Lemmy is a federated link aggregation and discussion platform, similar to a decentralized forum or community-based social media site. It supports customizable communities, enabling users to share, discuss, and engage within various topics. As part of a federated ecosystem, Lemmy allows users to interact across compatible platforms while maintaining control over their data and experience.
Key Features
- 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
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- 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.
- 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.
- Supports arm64 / Raspberry Pi.