LemmyNet/lemmy
🐀 A decentralised discussion platform for communities.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 11 days ago, with 259 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a decentralized, federated discussion platform and link aggregator for communities, similar to Reddit but built on the Fediverse.
- Enables self-hosting with federation across servers, allowing users to interact across independent instances without centralized control.
- Use for creating community-driven forums that require decentralized moderation and cross-server user interaction.
- Use for deploying a privacy-respecting, open-source alternative to corporate-controlled social news and discussion sites.
- Use for building scalable, high-performance discussion platforms on Rust with mobile-friendly and internationalized interfaces.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
AGPL 3.0
Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- AGPL-style copyleft also applies when the software is offered over a network.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, 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.
It is 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.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
976+10
Open issues
122+2
Compared with peers in Backend
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/skills | 192.3K | +5.2K | 75 | — |
| zed-industries/zed | 94.7K | +2.3K | 75 | 6 days ago |
| google/skills | 23.8K | +2.0K | 75 | — |
| NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra | 99.4K | +1.8K | 75 | 19 days ago |
| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 20.8K | +1.7K | 75 | 7 days ago |
| LemmyNet/lemmy | 14.7K | — | 54 | 11 days ago |
| Category median | 94.7K | +2.0K | 75 | — |
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