What does HackerNews think of lemmy?

For those who are wondering just like I did…

Lemmy is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social news aggregation and discussion forums

https://join-lemmy.org/

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)

Another popular example of rust in web development - https://lemmy.ml/

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

> An Open Source implementation of Twitter that is significantly cheaper to run than a Mastodon host that can scale to larger user numbers should be possible. And that being Open Source would potentially permit us to see this work out in practice by letting different communities exist side by side if we can't agree on common rules

Maybe Lemmy [1] with a Twitter UI is worth exploring?

[1] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Why did they not start with Lemmy's code base?

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

http://lemmy.ml is a federated libre source link aggegator built on Rust ( https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy )

> [...] some free software project maintainers think it’s OK to impose their political / ideological stances on who can use their software, and for what purpose it can be used. They are violating the zeroth freedom [The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose] to advance their political agendas

I genuinely don't understand the point this article is trying to make. For one, who (beyond the law) has the right to demand that free software developers do (or don't do) whatever they demand?

Second, on a more practical level, both of the examples cited[1][2] keep their code bases on GitHub. If anyone disagrees with the direction of travel taken by the developers of those software packages, then surely they are entirely free to fork the repository and start developing it in the direction they want to take it.

[1] - Tusky: https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky

[2] - LemmyNet: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Lemmy is doing this.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

I know of the dev instance and chapo.chat, but I'm sure there are a few others.

See also repo at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy