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Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs or Hacker News: You subscribe to communities that you're interested in, post links and discussions and vote and comment on them. <br> | Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs or Hacker News: You subscribe to communities that you're interested in, post links and discussions and vote and comment on them. <br> | ||
Communities are similar to forum categories, so Lemmy can be used as a forum. <br> | Communities are similar to forum categories, so Lemmy can be used as a forum. <br> | ||
Since it's part of the {{Internal Link |target=What is the Fediverse? |link-name=Fediverse}} different Lemmy instances can communicate | Since it's part of the {{Internal Link |target=What is the Fediverse? |link-name=Fediverse}} different Lemmy instances can communicate with each other and to some degree, with the rest of the Fediverse, but discoverability between Lemmy and other parts of the Fediverse is limited. | ||
{{Internal Link |target=What is Mastodon? |link-name=Mastodon}} users can take part in Lemmy discussions and subscribe to Lemmy communities. Lemmy doesn't support hashtags as Mastodon yet. | |||
Also Lemmy uses Markdown and pictures in a way, that other parts of the Fediverse have trouble displaying. | |||
{{Internal Link |target=What is Mastodon? |link-name=Mastodon}} users can | |||
== Further Reading == <!--T:6--> | == Further Reading == <!--T:6--> | ||