Federated, open-source Reddit alternative with community-run instances and no corporate ownership.
Each app below addresses a specific gap in Lemmy's offering. We picked them based on real user review patterns and feature differentiation.
Reddit has billions of monthly visits and hundreds of thousands of active subreddits. Despite API changes and user backlash in 2023, it remains the dominant discussion platform.
Explore Reddit data →Mastodon uses ActivityPub like Lemmy and is compatible with it. Mastodon users can subscribe to Lemmy communities and comment from their Mastodon accounts.
Explore Mastodon data →Mbin is an active fork of Kbin, offering a magazine-style link aggregator and microblogging hybrid with ActivityPub federation. Actively maintained after Kbin became inactive.
Explore Mbin data →Hacker News is the premier tech industry link aggregator, focused on programming, startups, and science. Highly curated with strong signal-to-noise ratio but limited to tech topics.
Explore Hacker News data →Tildes is a centralized but non-profit discussion site with no advertising. It is invite-only and focuses on thoughtful, slow discussion over viral content chasing.
Explore Tildes data →Bluesky is primarily a microblogging platform like Twitter rather than a link aggregator, but its custom feeds and open protocol offer some community-building capabilities.
Explore Bluesky data →Lemmy saw a major surge in 2023 and continues active open-source development, with growing mobile app support for iOS and Android.
Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml are the largest general-purpose instances. Topic-specific instances like Beehaw (community focus) and programming.dev (tech) also have active communities.
There is no official migration tool. Users manually recreate communities and cross-post content. The 2023 Reddit API protest drove significant community migrations to Lemmy.
Yes. Lemmy uses ActivityPub, so Mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities and comment on posts from their Mastodon accounts.
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Photo & Video alternatives.
Online Banking and Mobile Banking alternatives.
Home & Garden alternatives.
Communication & Social alternatives.