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LemmyNet
lemmy
Rust2019–2025
LemmyNet / lemmy

lemmy

🐀 A decentralised discussion platform for communities.

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🐀 A decentralised discussion platform for communities.

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HN mentions by year119 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-04-17 22:23:27 UTC to 2025-02-15 14:28:22 UTC.

0102030402019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 0 submissions, 21 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 0 submissions, 21 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 28 mentions; 2 submissions, 26 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 37 mentions; 2 submissions, 35 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21021
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21021
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC28226
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC37235
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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rglullis·Sep 23, 2023
> If you're pushing, why would the other instance pull from you? Because instances are not always assumed to be online, or you don't want to push to all the connected instances... > I have systems at work that have no problem gossiping thousands of updates per second to hundreds of subscribers. So, I agree with you [0], but it seems that the Lemmy devs think it is not necessary. Be a kind soul and show your PR? [0]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3245#issuecomment-1...
In Ask HN: How to avoid social media enshitification, if no one pays for it?
tikkun·Jul 31, 2023
The guide is copied below, from https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/ -- #### I think this site may break or stop updating soon due to Reddit's API changes. I don't earn any money from this site, and if my calculations are correct it'd cost me a couple thousand dollars per month with their new API pricing, so yeah. If you can, it's probably worth leaving Reddit for other platforms - especially open-source/federated ones like [Lemmy](https://lemmy.world/). *Note 1*: People are sometimes confused by the fact that there are multiple Lemmy websites like [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/) and [lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/) - don't worry about that. Just sign up on *one* site, and you'll be able to join and interact with communities on *any* other Lemmy site. Choosing which Lemmy site to sign up to is a bit like choosing your emai
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l provider - e.g. if you use gmail, you can still communicate with people who use other email services like yahoo or protonmail. The reason there are multiple sites is because _anyone_ can create their own Lemmy instance - so no single person or company controls the '[fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse)'. Just choose a popular and reputable one like [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/). *Note 2*: You can use [lemmyverse.net](https://lemmyverse.net/communities) to help you find communities across the whole fediverse. If you've signed up to lemmy.world, then you can visit 'local' communities like [lemmy.world/c/memes](https://lemmy.world/c/memes) - and if you want to subscribe to or interact with a community on a _different site_, then just add @SiteName to the end of the community URL. For example, if you're signed up to lemmy.world, but you prefer the lemmy.ml memes community, then you can visit [lemmy.world/c/memes*@lemmy.ml*](https://lemmy.world/c/memes@lemmy.ml) to subscribe to and interact with the lemmy.ml memes community. *Note 3*: Lemmy is based on the same technology as [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/explore). Both services "speak the same language" (that language is called 'ActivityPub'), so you can view and interact with Mastodon content from Lemmy, and vice versa. They're both part of the '[fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse)', but Lemmy provides a Reddit-like experience, whereas Mastodon is more like Twitter. *Note 4*: It's worth mentioning that Lemmy is young - the Lemmy [devs](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy) are working hard to quickly improve the software, and server admins have been constantly moving to larger machines to support the influx of new users, so please be patient with bugs and issues. Also, the only way to grow Lemmy is for people like you to spend time on the site daily, interact, create new communities, etc. - please [join us](https://lemmy.world/signup) on this new adventure :)
In Ask HN: Which Lemmy communities and instances are you visiting daily?
shagie·Jul 1, 2023
The API for accessing Lemmy isn't stable or well documented. https://lemmy.ml/post/1634556 The moderation tools are not yet well developed short of logging into the server and managing the database. https://lemmy.ml/post/1649304 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3281 Building a UI and moderation tools geared to blind users would be good... but it isn't even on the roadmap now and getting it on the Lemmy roadmap is challenging. This has been brought up at https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14dr797/comment/josy... https://rblind.com does exist, and has https://rblind.com/post/2246309 to say: > Because for right now, Reddit is still far more accessible than either Lemmy or Kbin via web interface. Single simple keypress navigation for jumping around comments. > On here every single image on this page is named “image” and every
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single list is named “list”. I am all for getting to the fediverse, but right now the experience for me is brutal. > Let’s not cut off our nose to spite our face, the PEOPLE in the community are the important bit not the location, and if we switch off the place that works while we are midway through building a new place and bunch of people will be left beyind and disconnected and I don’t think that is what any of us want.
In Reddit has made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate /r/blind
tech234a·Jun 27, 2023
This is really cool! Trying this for a few minutes as someone who has used Apollo for a lot of my mobile Reddit browsing over the past few years, this is accurate enough to almost fool me into thinking I'm using Apollo, despite Apollo being a native iOS app and WefWef being a web app. The image viewer is the biggest thing that feels different to me, but I'm sure it will be improved over time. Advanced settings are also missing but that's not as noticeable (in Apollo I usually set the default sort to recent). Unfortunately it has to proxy requests because of CORS but it looks like that requirement will be removed soon: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3301
In WefWef: An Apollo Clone for Lemmy

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