We've written an extensive introduction and explainer which you can find hosted on Lemmy by clicking here. A selection of the same information about Lemmy will be covered below. Hope to see you there - free to collaborate outside the influence of a private company and their advertisers!

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What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is open source software used for running individually hosted social media networks in the style of Reddit. It is built on the ActivityPub protocol, and is part of the Fediverse.

We wrote this introduction with Apes in mind, but you may also want to check out the introduction and tutorials at join-lemmy.org located here.

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How is Lemmy structured and moderated compared to Reddit?

• Lemmy has Instance (AKA server) administrators and Community moderators

• The analog is Reddit admins and Subreddit moderators

• Instance admins can perform all mod actions on all communities, just like Reddit admins can perform all mod actions on all subreddits

• Meanwhile, Community/Subreddit mods only moderate their community or subreddit

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​What is the Fediverse?

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The Fediverse refers to a collection of social media software which all are open source, independently hosted, and can choose to interact with each other. These software are all built on the same protocol and can interact with each other and share users. When instances opt in to the broader system, they are ‘federated’.

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Tips for signing up

When you make an account on a federated Lemmy instance like this one, you can interact with all other instances and communities which are federated. The differences between instances are up to individual instance admins, who decide who can sign up and what content is allowed on their instance along with moderation rules.

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https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/signup

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When signing up, Lemmy can freeze up if the username you are trying to register already exists or if you are using a password longer than 63 characters long. As detailed in the instance policies, limiting data collection means that no email account recovery is supported. Please ensure that you save your login information somewhere securely such as a KeePass data file, or Bitwarden password manager. After signing up, there is a verification process which is manual. Our DRS instance admins do their best to check and approve applicants quickly.

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Lemmy on desktop or mobile

Once you have your account created and approved, you can choose to browse Lemmy through an app or other client. You can find some apps here:-https://join-lemmy.org/apps/

Web​

• https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org

Android

• Connect

• Jerboa

iPhone

• Voyager

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Have you reviewed our Instance Policies?

See here:-https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/1209

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TL;DR: Treat everything you submit to the lemmy.whynotdrs.org instance as public. Instance admins will attempt to reduce data collection as much as practicable, and will maintain open access for anyone to view posts and comments on the instance. 

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Following Reddit communities via Lemmy

The lemmit.online instance replicates a number of Reddit subs to Lemmy communities through an automated bot which crossposts content posts, but not comments. You can follow those communities through your Lemmy account no matter which instance you signed up on. 

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For Superstonk specifically, just follow-!Superstonk@lemmit.online

 

For other subs, find the community you are interested in following, and

then paste the community’s tag (listed in the community’s sidebar) into

the search function on our instance. For example:

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The '0 subscribers' means 0 subscribers from the DRS instance. After pasting this code there from the sidebar or formatting it yourself (!, then the sub name, then @lemmit.online) give the search several seconds to populate, and then you will be able to navigate there. You can also navigate there automatically by clicking that link - the ! format navigates you to a community through whatever instance you are logged in with.

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https://lemmit.online/communities - List of currently supported subreddit mirrors https://lemmit.online/c/requests - Where new subreddits can be requested for mirroring

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How to start a new community on this instance

• Click the Create Community option along the top. You’ll need to select the community name, the URL, and optionally can include sidebar content.

• On Lemmy, Communities are automatically moderated by the person who creates them. That user can appoint other moderators, pin stickies, and moderate content on that community. It’s very similar to how Subreddits are made and operated.

• On the-lemmy.whynotdrs.org-instance, we welcome all communities who wish to discuss the financial markets and surrounding topics including specific stocks, investing styles, rules and regulations, crypto and web3, and the culture around money itself.

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Public Moderation Logs: How they work and how to search them

Lemmy’s moderation logs for all instance administrator actions and community moderator actions are available for public review at all times - and do not require sign up to access.

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https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog

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Moderation logs are collected together for all federated instances, and so can be difficult to parse in real time without searching for a specific mod. Once you type the name of an individual mod, select them from the dropdown and you can review all mod or admin actions they have taken. Posts which were removed can also be viewed and scrutinized here. There is complete transparency into moderation actions.

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• Admin account admin history

• Chives account admin history

• Bibic account admin history