We are happy to see that many of you are exploring Lemmy after Reddit announced changes to its API policy. I maintain this project alongside @dessalines@lemmy.ml.

Lemmy is similar to Reddit in many ways, but there is also a major difference: Its not only a single website, but consists of many different websites which are interconnected through federation. This is achieved with the ActivityPub protocol which is also used by Mastodon. It means that you can sign up on any Lemmy instance to interact with users and communities on other instances. The project website has a list of instances which all have their own rules and administrators. We recommend that you sign up on one of them, to avoid overt centralization on lemmy.ml.

Another difference compared to Reddit is that Lemmy is open source, and not funded by any company. For this reason it relies on volunteer work to make the project better, whether it’s programming, design, documentation, translating, reporting issues or others. See the contributing guide to get started. You can also donate to support development.

We also recommend that you read the documentation. It explains how Lemmy works and how to setup your own Lemmy instance. Running an instance gives you full control over the rules and moderation, and prevents us developers from having any influence. Especially large communities that want to use Lemmy should host their own instance, because existing Lemmy instances would easily be overwhelmed by a large number of new users.

Enjoy your time here! If you have any questions, feel free to ask below or in the Matrix chat.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        By the way, the feed reachable via the RSS button in the account inbox has been broken for me, for a couple weeks. Probably should’ve reported that earlier…

        It uses URLs like this: https://lemmy.ml/post/971001/comment/442247

        Which, if I load it in my browser gives me an error 404: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'send').

        If I simply remove the “post/971001/”, it loads the intended comment: https://lemmy.ml/comment/442247

          • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Could you create the issue? I don’t use GitHub and I just won’t spend half an hour to create a throwaway mailbox + account, to paste some text into the appropriate place.

            Here’s the issue text, as I would formulate it, and a screenshot, if you want it:

            Account Inbox RSS-Feed has broken URLs

            The feed reachable via the RSS-button in the account inbox has been broken for a couple weeks.

            It uses URLs like this: https://lemmy.ml/post/971001/comment/442247

            Which, if loaded in a browser, gives an error:
            404: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'send').

            If the section “post/971001/” is removed from the URL, it loads the intended comment: https://lemmy.ml/comment/442247

            Steps to reproduce:

            1. Log into your account.
            2. Go to <Lemmy-instance-URL>/inbox, e.g.: https://lemmy.ml/inbox
            3. Click on RSS-button.
            4. Open the downloaded file in a text editor. You should be able to spot the wrong URLs in the XML.

            This issue was reported by https://lemmy.ml/u/Ephera .

            Screenshot of the account inbox, showing the RSS-button that leads to the broken feed.