Getting started with Lemmy

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Index

1. Brief overview
2. Finding Communities
3. Adding Communities
4. Settings
5. Markdown
6. Lemmy Clients
7. Learn More/ Sources

1. Brief overview

Lemmy is a federated and self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion forum. Each instance is able to connect with other instances (via ActivityPub). This means it doesn't matter which instance you sign up with since you're still able to see and interact with communities from other public instances. Communities are the Lemmy equivalent of Reddit's Subreddits.

• Your account is tied to an instance.
• You can reach all other instances via the instance you signed up with.
• You can post in any communities that have not been banned by your instance.
• You can comment on any posts in any communities that have not been banned by your instance.
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