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 in active development, such as federation.

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Features

• Open source, AGPL License.
• Self hostable, easy to deploy.
  • Comes with Docker.
• Live-updating Comment threads.
• Full vote scores (+/-) like old reddit.
• Moderation abilities.
  • Public Moderation Logs.
  • 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.
• Clean, mobile-friendly interface.
• i18n / internationalization support.
• NSFW post / community support.
• 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: 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.

For a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to forums on any other server, and can have discussions with users registered elsewhere.

The overall goal is to create an easily self-hostable, decentralized alternative to reddit and other link aggregators, outside of their corporate control and meddling.

Each lemmy server can set its own moderation policy; appointing site-wide admins, and community moderators to keep out the trolls, and foster a healthy, non-toxic environment where all can feel comfortable contributing.

Why's it called Lemmy?

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

Made with Rust, Actix, Inferno, Typescript and Diesel.

Install

Docker

Make sure you have both docker and docker-compose(>=1.24.0) installed.

mkdir lemmy/
cd lemmy/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dessalines/lemmy/master/docker/prod/docker-compose.yml
docker-compose up -d

and goto http://localhost:8536

Nginx Config

location / {
  rewrite (\/(user|u|inbox|post|community|c|login|search|sponsors|communities|modlog|home)+) /static/index.html break;
  proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:8536;
  proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
  proxy_set_header Host $host;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

  # WebSocket support
  proxy_http_version 1.1;
  proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
  proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}

Develop

Docker Development

git clone https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy
cd lemmy/docker
./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

Documentation

• Websocket API for App developers
• ActivityPub API.md
• Goals
• Ranking Algorithm

Support

Lemmy is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever. Your donations directly support full-time development of the project.

• Support on Patreon.
• Sponsor List.
• bitcoin: 1Hefs7miXS5ff5Ck5xvmjKjXf5242KzRtK
• ethereum: 0x400c96c96acbC6E7B3B43B1dc1BB446540a88A01

Translations

If you'd like to add translations, take a look a look at the english translation file.

• Languages supported: en, zh, fr, sv

Credits

Icon made by Andy Cuccaro (@andycuccaro).