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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.

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

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