What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is link aggregator software that exists in the fediverse, meaning it connects with other “ActivityPub” software like Mastodon and other Lemmy instances. Basically, you can follow and interact with communities here on Lemmy.one, on any other Lemmy instance, or even from your Mastodon account!

What is Lemmy.one?

Lemmy.one is a general-purpose instance of Lemmy—a self-hostable, decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators—hosted by myself (Jonah). I am the administrator of the Mastodon server mstdn.party, and the founder of privacyguides.org.

This instance is generously supported by our contributors, if you use this instance to interact with the fediverse, please consider a monthly contribution to support my work.

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What are the rules here?

  1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism
  2. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
  3. No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
  4. No content illegal in the United States, Germany, or Finland
  5. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
  6. Do not spam or abuse network features.

As a general-purpose instance, we do not have heavy moderation in terms of what topics people are allowed to post about, however all users are expected to follow our rules at all times, and generally be nice and friendly on the federation.

Please report all content you see which might violate our rules for evaluation. If you are on a remote server, please forward any reports of our users to our server for our moderators to take action, we pledge that remote reports will remain confidential within our moderation team and will not be used for any form of retribution against the reporter.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Hey so I’ve been on Lemmy for a few weeks now and I’m getting tired of seeing the pinned posts. How do I prune them from my feed? I’ve seen them. I don’t need to keep seeing them several times a day.

    The only way I can think of at the moment is to block @jonah and, while I’m reluctant to do that, so far nobody has given me another option.

    • Doombot1@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Seconded! I would’ve made my own comment but didn’t want to crowd things up any more than they already are. Thanks @jonah! Very excited to be a part of this all.

  • old-tymon@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Liking it here so far, but it would be a really good thing to enable downvotes. I hope you reconsider it!

  • rm_dash_r_star@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Reddit refugee here, great site. Fairly local for me so it’s fast, fast. Thanks for the hooking me up!

  • Anthony@mastodon.au
    1·
    1 year ago

    @jonah I’m still getting used to navigating the federated space so forgive me if this seems utterly silly.

    What’s the best way to interact with lemmy.one/lemmy in general? Ideally I’d like to use my mastodon instance for singularity sake but I’m unsure how to interact (such as liking and interacting on lemmy directly) rather than through mastrodon. Sorry, didn’t know where to ask

    • jonah@lemmy.oneOPM
      2·
      1 year ago

      You can’t interact via the Lemmy interface without an account on a Lemmy instance. Mastodon lets you follow Lemmy communities, upvote posts (via likes), and reply to Lemmy posts like you did here, but all that only happens through Mastodon if you use a Mastodon account.

      This is why for people who use Lemmy regularly it probably makes more sense to register somewhere like kbin.social or lemmy.one, but interacting via Mastodon like this is nice if you just want to leave a quick comment every once in a while without needing yet another account.

    • Anthony@mastodon.au
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think in this instance (lol) they’ve opted to disable downvotes since it’s a smaller community. Instead, the sidebar encourages you to upvote other posts to encourage discussion :)

        • erik@lemmy.one
          1·
          1 year ago

          Not lame. Just not what you want. The joy is, there are instances that allow downvoting, which you are free to join, if that’s the way you want to interact.

  • Sentau@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Is there a list of instances that lemmy.one has defederated with¿? I see several posts where the post data shows more comments than the post actually displays when it is opened. I am guessing this is either a bug or comments from instances which have been defederated

  • Plank@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hey all, new used here. Making the pilgrimage from Reddit also. Hope to contribute to a growing community here!