Stephen Downes

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is similar to Reddit but is federated (like Mastodon) using ActivityPub. The major difference is that communities, as well as individuals, can have identities on individual instances (eg., europe@feddit.org) One of the largest Lemmy servers, lemm.ee, however, has announced that it is shutting down, citing admin burnout. So the migration is on, and it's not an easy process. This creates an opportunity for PieFed, another fediverse server similar to Reddit, which has just released the 1.0 version. It has grown significantly over the last few weeks, according to Fediverse Observer. Via Laurens Hof.