What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a platform within the fediverse that functions similarly to Reddit. It comprises a server-side application that you can host, along with client applications such as Mobile webapp, Android, and iOS apps. This allows users to engage and interact with Lemmy through various channels.

How is lemmy different from reddit ?

What makes it different from Reddit is that instead of a single company managing the servers for all users, anyone can start their own Lemmy server and be part of the community (called fediverse). Or you can join one of the existing servers(called instances) like this and interact with the rest of the fediverse. What makes this possible is a standard protocol called activitypub, which is like a common language that all these servers use to talk to each other. This is similar to how email works (different servers send email to each other using a common protocol). Because of the decentralized design, no single entity has too much power in an ideal federated system.

Lemmy is still under active development, due to the decentralised architecture and early stage of the project there are still some bugs and usability issues.

How is this instance different from reddit kerala related subreddits

1. No Karma and no Karma based artificial restrictions for posting content
2. Moderation transparency: See https://kerala.party/modlog , All mod actions are public.
3. You can talk about piracy and definitely talk about other communities.

I have joined lemmy. Now what shall I do ?

1. Explore communities. Go to Communities-> All you can see a list of communities from this instance and other instances that this instance interacted with. From there you can browse those or join them.
2. Search for communities using this https://lemmyverse.net/
3. Copy the community URL of your choice e.g. [email protected]
4. Paste this into the https://kerala.party/communities Search box and hit search couple of times till it appears (Bug)
5. Click on the result and click subscribe (sometimes shows subscribe pending, another bug)

If you are using Firefox, you can use this addon to make this subscription process easier.

I have subscribed to a community but not all posts and comments are visible

Your home instance only syncs a limited number of old posts and comments from the newly added community(To reduce server load), But all new posts and comments will be synced to your home instance.

Fediverse link aggregation applications

• Lemmy : https://join-lemmy.org/
• Kbin : https://kbin.social/

Other applications

• Mastadon(like twitter) https://joinmastodon.org/
• Peertube(like youtube) https://joinpeertube.org/
• Pixelfed(like instagram) https://pixelfed.org/

All these applications interact with each other E.g. With a fediverse application like Mastadon you can have your twitter server and comment on a Lemmy thread without leaving your server.

Lemmy and Privacy

See discussion here https://mylemmy.win/post/89871