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🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse

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Joseph Rocca

$2,080 USD since Jul 2023

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Joseph

$1,000 USD since Jun 2023

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Max

$500 USD since Mar 2022

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Guest

$300 USD since Jun 2023

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nicfab

$290 USD since Jul 2022

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db0

$280 USD since Jun 2023

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Wiwi Kuan (官大為)

$200 USD since Jul 2022

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Justin Lex-Hammarskjöld

$200 USD since Jun 2023

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Nick B

$200 USD since Jun 2023

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$200 USD since Jun 2023

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$200 USD since Sep 2023

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Nikolay Kolev

$150 USD since Sep 2021

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$140 USD since Sep 2023

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Olaf

$100 USD since Jun 2023

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Shae A

$100 USD since Jun 2023

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Brooks Johnson

$100 USD since Jun 2023

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Alex Molina

$100 USD since Jun 2023

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$100 USD since Jun 2023

Lemmy is all of us

Our contributors 310

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nutomic

Admin

Joseph Rocca

Highlighted Sponsor

$2,080 USD

Thank you to the contributors and maintainers!

Joseph

$1,000 USD

Max

Highlighted Sponsor

$500 USD

Guest

$300 USD

nicfab

Highlighted Sponsor

$290 USD

db0

$280 USD

Greetings from the lemmy.dbzer0.com community. ...

Wiwi Kuan (官大為)

$200 USD

Justin Lex-Ha...

Highlighted Sponsor

$200 USD

Nick B

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$200 USD

souperk

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$200 USD

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Transparent and open finances.

Credit from Guest to Lemmy

+$10.00USD
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Contribution #749889

Credit from A-A-Ron to Lemmy

+$20.00USD
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Contribution #749097

Credit from Caleb Blankenbaker to Lemmy

+$20.00USD
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Today’s balance

$4,486.17 USD

Total raised

$10,674.67 USD

Total disbursed

$6,188.50 USD

Estimated annual budget

$12,730.63 USD

About



Lemmy is a selfhosted, federated social link aggregation and discussion forum. It consists of many different communities which are focused on different topics. Users can post text, links or images and discuss it with others. Voting helps to bring the most interesting items to the top. There are strong moderation tools to keep out spam and trolls. All this is completely free and open, not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms.


Federation is a form of decentralization. Instead of a single central service that everyone uses, there are multiple services that any number of people can use.


A Lemmy website can operate alone. Just like a traditional website, people sign up on it, post messages, upload pictures and talk to each other. Unlike a traditional website, Lemmy instances can interoperate, letting their users communicate with each other; just like you can send an email from your Gmail account to someone from Outlook, Fastmail, Proton Mail, or any other email provider, as long as you know their email address, you can mention or message anyone on any website using their address.


Lemmy uses a standardized, open protocol to implement federation which is called ActivityPub. Any software that likewise implements federation via ActivityPub can seamlessly communicate with Lemmy, just like Lemmy instances communicate with one another.


Visit join-lemmy.org to browse Lemmy instances or install your own.


Lemmy is entirely open source and funded exclusively by donations. The maintainers dessalines and nutomic have been working on it full time for the past years thanks to generous support by the NLnet foundation. Now that this support is coming to an end, the project is increasingly relying on donations from individual users to fund development. Your donation allows the developers to fully focus on making Lemmy better for everyone.

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