I'm running this Lemmy instance because I believe in the importance of having a decentralised and open social media platform. The ability to spin up your own server and contribute to a space where people can come together to discuss and share ideas without being bound to one platform or userbase is what has proven to be the most robust and progressive way of creating a digital agora.
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a federated alternative to Reddit, which means that it is made up of a network of independent servers that communicate with each other. This makes Lemmy more resistant to censorship, improves transparency and gives users more control over their data. Here you can find a list of all active and federated instances sorted by popularity.
The Web was designed from the ground up to be decentralised and open to all. These values are what made the internet and are being spat on by companies trying to seize control over the content and its users.
Lemmy is the internet’s response to an ever increasing centralisation of social media. Where every regular social media is owned by a single entity, Lemmy has no owner and consists of hundreds of intertwined instances.
This concept also connects Lemmy with many other forms of social media which are collectively referred to as the Fediverse.
Federated?
~ Anyone can host a server
~ Servers host instances
~ Instances host Communities
~ Communities host wonderful people
~ Instances can communicate freely between each other
This is federation
What makes Lemmy and any federated platform so interesting is the ActivityPub protocol. This allows Lemmy, which is a content aggregator social media, to communicate (or Federate) with other types of social media, such as Mastodon (a twitter microblog style) and PeerTube (video hosting). Meaning any instance of the Fediverse can independently read each others content, without the necessity of having to use different apps and/or accounts.
To get started, you can start browsing communities! Find any Lemmy instance to create an account and Subscribe to Communities you find interesting or even create your own and start sharing content.
Why 0d.gs?
Short URL's have always intrigued me, and have owned quite a few. With ICANN explicitly prohibiting them, it's tough to find TLD's not only allowing but also having them available. 0D also has a significant meaning within my main interest field.
I hope you enjoy your time on ø Lemmy Zero D ø
Banner: David Simonds, The Economist, 19 March 2008
For sure, and I genuinely don't blame anyone. I've spoken a few times about the difficulty of marketing federated social media.
Also, this place feels like exactly like early Reddit, tech savvy, close-nit, united but also divided. Lemmy will get bigger, diversifying the platform, increasing it's likeability for a wider audience.