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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.

You can find more information in the Backend Repository.

You need to have pnpm installed. Then run the following:

git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui.git --recursive
cd lemmy-ui
pnpm install
LEMMY_UI_BACKEND=https://voyager.lemmy.ml pnpm dev

Finally open http://localhost:1234 in your browser. This uses the public test instance https://voyager.lemmy.ml/ as backend. For more details such as developing with a locally compiled Lemmy backend, read the documentation.

The following environment variables can be used to configure lemmy-ui:

These environment variables are for debugging purposes and are disabled by default for production builds, but can be enabled explicitly.

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