This article will show reddit refugees how to easily search-for and subscribe-to to popular lemmy subreddits communities across all lemmy instances.
tl;dr use the Lemmy Community Browser https://browse.feddit.de/ Intro
Lemmy is a federated reddit alternative that started in 2019. Thanks to funding from NLNet, Open Collective, Patreon, and Librapay, the project has two full-time developers.
Unlike Reddit, all of Lemmy’s code is open-source under the AGPL.
Context
In 2008, Reddit launched an API that allowed third-party clients to use Reddit. This API has been free for 14 years.
In April 2023, Reddit announced that they would begin charging for use of their API, starting just 3-months later. This made headlines when one developer calculated that reddit’s proposed fee structure would cost them $20 million per year. As a result, most popular reddit apps including Apollo, RIF, ReddPlanet, and Sync are all shutting down in July.
In protest, hundreds thousands of subreddits are participating in a reddit blackout on June 12th.
At the time of writing, all the apps still work and protest hasn’t even started yet, but already thousands of reddit refugees have flocked to lemmy — at a rate of about 2,000 new users per day. And because
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