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Lemmy logo
	Lemmy
Website	join-lemmy.org

Official instance	lemmy.ml

List of instances	fediverse.observer
Mastodon account	@LemmyDev

Lemmy is a link-aggregator and the Fediverse's replacement for Reddit.

What does Lemmy feel like?

Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs or Hacker News: You subscribe to communities that you're interested in, post links and vote and comment on them.
Communities are similar to forum categories, so Lemmy can be used as a forum.
Since its part of the 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. Also Lemmy uses Markdown and pictures in a way, that other parts of the Fediverse have trouble displaying.

Lemmy and the Fediverse

Mastodon

Mastodon users can take part in Lemmy discussions and subscribe to Lemmy communities. To post in a Lemmy community simply mention the Lemmy community (@LemmyCommunity@LemmyInstance.tdl) in a Mastodon post.
The first paragraph of the Mastodon post will display in Lemmy as the title, the rest will be the text body. Hashtags won't be displayed in Lemmy.

Here is the list of functions supported between Mastodon and Lemmy :

Hashtags	Pictures	Alt text	Videos	NSFW	Polls	Markdown	Mentions	Comments	Post (re)editing	Cross-posts from Mastodon to Lemmy	private messages	Boosts	Likes
❌	✔️	❌(1)	?	✔️	✖️	✖️	✔️	✔️	✔️	➖(2)	?	✖️	✔️

(1) : The alt text isn't displayed on Lemmy. We recommend you to write it in the post or comment.
(2) : You will have to share the content of post then add a mention to the lemmy community.

External links

lemmymap - a lemmy federation map

Guides

Navigation bar
About the Fediverse
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 {{Infobox |title=Lemmy |website=join-lemmy.org |instance=lemmy.ml |mastohandle=@LemmyDev |mastoinstance=mastodon.social}}
-Lemmy is a link-aggregator and the {{Internal Link |target=What is the Fediverse? |link-name=Fediverse}}'s replacement for Reddit.
+Lemmy is a link-aggregator and the {{Internal link |target=What is the Fediverse? |link-name=Fediverse}}'s replacement for Reddit.
 == What does Lemmy feel like? ==
-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 vote and comment on them. <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 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.
+Since its 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. 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 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.
 == Lemmy and the Fediverse ==
 === Mastodon ===
-Mastodon users can post in a Lemmy community. Go to mastodon, create a post and follow that form :
+{{Internal link |target=What is Mastodon? |link-name=Mastodon}} users can take part in Lemmy discussions and subscribe to Lemmy communities. To post in a Lemmy community simply mention the Lemmy community (@LemmyCommunity@LemmyInstance.tdl) in a Mastodon post.<br>
- <nowiki>The first paragraph will be the title in Lemmy
+The first paragraph of the Mastodon post will display in Lemmy as the title, the rest will be the text body. Hashtags won't be displayed in Lemmy.
-The second paragraph will be the body of your post. You can add some hashtag but it will only work on mastodon as Lemmy doesn't support them.
-Once done, mention the Lemmy community where you want to post. @LemmyCommunity@LemmyInstance.tdl
-</nowiki>
 Here is the list of functions supported between Mastodon and Lemmy :
 {| class="wikitable"
-!Hashtag
+!Hashtags
-!Picture
+!Pictures
-!Picture alt text
+!Alt text
-!Video
+!Videos
 !NSFW
-!Poll
+!Polls
 !Markdown
-!Mention
+!Mentions
 !Comments
 !Post (re)editing
-!Cross-post mastodon to lemmy
+!Cross-posts from Mastodon to Lemmy
-!private message
+!private messages
-!Boost
+!Boosts
-!Like
+!Likes
 |-
 |❌
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 * (2) : You will have to share the content of post then add a mention to the lemmy community.
-== Further Reading ==
+== Further reading ==
+{{Getting started links}}
-{{Internal Link |target=How do I get an account? |link-name=How do I get an account?}} <br>
-{{Internal Link |target=Getting started with your Fediverse account |link-name=Getting started with your Fediverse account}} <br>
-{{Internal Link |target=Apps |link-name=Apps}} <br>
-{{Internal Link |target=Best practices |link-name=Best practices}}
 == External links ==