5.7 KiB

Raw Blame History

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.

Front Page	Post

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.
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 furry rodents.

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

Usage

Production

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

Development

Kubernetes

This requires:

Local or remote Kubernetes Cluster, i.e. minikube
kubectl
skaffold

After satisfying the requirements, run the following:

skaffold dev -p lemmy--dev

And goto http://localhost:4444.

Non-Kubernetes

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