Ask HN: Which Lemmy communities and instances are you visiting daily?

• Lemmy

  1,603 12,803 9.8 Rust

  🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse

  

The guide is copied below, from https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/

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#### I think this site may break or stop updating soon due to Reddit's API changes. I don't earn any money from this site, and if my calculations are correct it'd cost me a couple thousand dollars per month with their new API pricing, so yeah. If you can, it's probably worth leaving Reddit for other platforms - especially open-source/federated ones like [Lemmy](https://lemmy.world/).

*Note 1*: People are sometimes confused by the fact that there are multiple Lemmy websites like [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/) and [lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/) - don't worry about that. Just sign up on *one* site, and you'll be able to join and interact with communities on *any* other Lemmy site. Choosing which Lemmy site to sign up to is a bit like choosing your email provider - e.g. if you use gmail, you can still communicate with people who use other email services like yahoo or protonmail. The reason there are multiple sites is because _anyone_ can create their own Lemmy instance - so no single person or company controls the '[fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse)'. Just choose a popular and reputable one like [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/).

*Note 2*: You can use [lemmyverse.net](https://lemmyverse.net/communities) to help you find communities across the whole fediverse. If you've signed up to lemmy.world, then you can visit 'local' communities like [lemmy.world/c/memes](https://lemmy.world/c/memes) - and if you want to subscribe to or interact with a community on a _different site_, then just add @SiteName to the end of the community URL. For example, if you're signed up to lemmy.world, but you prefer the lemmy.ml memes community, then you can visit [lemmy.world/c/memes*@lemmy.ml*](https://lemmy.world/c/memes@lemmy.ml) to subscribe to and interact with the lemmy.ml memes community.

*Note 3*: Lemmy is based on the same technology as [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/explore). Both services "speak the same language" (that language is called 'ActivityPub'), so you can view and interact with Mastodon content from Lemmy, and vice versa. They're both part of the '[fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse)', but Lemmy provides a Reddit-like experience, whereas Mastodon is more like Twitter.

*Note 4*: It's worth mentioning that Lemmy is young - the Lemmy [devs](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy) are working hard to quickly improve the software, and server admins have been constantly moving to larger machines to support the influx of new users, so please be patient with bugs and issues. Also, the only way to grow Lemmy is for people like you to spend time on the site daily, interact, create new communities, etc. - please [join us](https://lemmy.world/signup) on this new adventure :)

• kbin

  74 753 9.8 PHP

  A reddit-like content aggregator and micro-blogging platform for the fediverse.

One will notice the regrettable duplication in that list, and it's (AFAIK) a massive unsolved problem in the Fediverse. My mental model is that Lemmy is exactly like signing up to mailing lists but where one can also upvote and downvote posts (err, some instances don't allow downvotes, so there's that). That means that folks who want the most coverage for their submission will post it to every one of the duplicated mailing lists, which results in their own message-id along with their own threaded replies and upvote/downvote scores. Some folks have proposed using the link-url and subject for deduplicating them, but I believe it's just a proposal from the client side and the servers will do no such thing (although running your own instance hypothetically would allow for such customization)

There's also https://kbin.pub which is its own ActivityPub implementation and behaves a little different from Lemmy, I'm sure with good and bad parts. IIRC there's some federation drama between Kbin and some Lemmy instances, and (AFAIK) Kbin does not have any mobile apps whereas there are currently several which speak the Lemmy API. I'd credit it with "first mover effect" more than one being objectively better than the other

I do hope Lemmy catches on and siphons users off of Reddit because the rug-pull from Reddit was a trust-breaking middle finger, IMHO. I wished the same thing for Mastodon, too, but I think the inertia is just too strong with X

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