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what is lemmy basically ? (floss.social)
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@opensource what is lemmy basically ?

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[–] starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

From a user experience its a social media site, like reddit.

And an ELI5 for the technical parts:

  • It is decentralized which means that no single company owns the whole thing. Anyone can set up a server.
  • it is also federated which means that servers can communicate with each other. I am able to see your post even though my server is programming.dev, your server is floss.social, and you posted on lemmy.ml.