# Lemmy (Social Network) **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/lemmy-social-network/26719 **Category:** Tool Suggestions **Created:** 2025-04-15T11:30:10Z **Posts:** 14 ## Post 1 by @rescuer-phoniness — 2025-04-15T11:30:10Z ### Check this box to affirm you have no conflict of interest. on ### Website > **[Lemmy - A forum and link aggregator for the fediverse](https://join-lemmy.org/)** > > Lemmy ### Short description Lemmy is a reddit fediverse alternative similar to how Mastodon is a fediverse alternative to Twitter. It is the fourth largest fediverse software by number of users according to [https://fedidb.org/software](https://fedidb.org/software) ### Why I think this tool should be added Lemmy itself has one of the healthiest fediverse networks and fills a hole for community-oriented social media without trackers. Lemmy also has a good number of servers with a fairly even distribution of users. Other fediverse projects often have an issue where the main server (e.g. mastodon.social) is the largest by far and holds an outmoded influence over the other servers. ### Section on Privacy Guides Social Networks --- ## Post 2 by @Cyber-Typhoon — 2025-04-15T12:55:29Z For me Lemmy works quite well to a point that I want to hide it, lol --- ## Post 3 by @KathyM — 2025-04-18T03:27:29Z I say No. Let them implement an instance with a working onion address first. Mastodon already did it. Lemmy literally can’t run without JavaScript enabled. --- ## Post 4 by @anonymous322 — 2025-04-18T15:03:13Z > [@KathyM](#): > > Lemmy literally can’t run without JavaScript enabled. If I am not mistaken [old.lemmy.world](https://old.lemmy.world/) works without JavaScript. --- ## Post 5 by @rescuer-phoniness — 2025-04-19T05:57:02Z Some of the servers do have onion services. There is even official docs for setting it up. Hackliberty at least used to have one, though they shut down their instance due to inactivity and complaints about ‘groupthink’ on lemmy afaik. > **[Running a Tor Hidden Service](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/tor_hidden_service.html)** --- ## Post 6 by @anonymous261 — 2025-06-26T23:09:52Z Privacy Guides was dissatisfied with Lemmy’s moderation features that they had to shut down their instance: > **[Lemmy.one will be shutting down - Lemmy.one](https://lemmy.one/post/27868313)** > > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/27858506 > [https://lemmy.one/post/27858506] > This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one > will be shutting down in 90 days. > > Unfortunately, the moderation features in > Lemmy never progressed to the... --- ## Post 8 by @Cyber-Typhoon — 2025-08-13T00:07:39Z About what? Could you be more specific? If Lemmy is ok to use? Yeah, I don’t see a good reason to not add this compared to other social medias available. Nevertheless, be aware that the comparison bar is low, most of the social medias are centralized and at the end of the day they are not a very good way to use your time. Even if is to have some sort of engagement with family and friends online, I’d say that you may be better adopting some group chats instead. If you are looking for news, social medias can be echo chambers or megaphone of fake news and conspiracy theories. You may be better consuming news from professional journalists and discussing in forums. --- ## Post 9 by @anonymous378 — 2025-08-13T00:22:24Z I don’t see there being much of a privacy benefit to using Lemmy and its to disappointingly inactive to tell people to use it. Lemmy had a small window during the Reddit protest stuff where it was fun to be on but its basically a ghost town now. Most of the content is bots either cross posting from Reddit or posting AI generated art bs. --- ## Post 10 by @WhinyHamletPayer — 2025-08-13T06:35:28Z Definitely worth using. I usually have questions to ask and have received an overwhelming number of responses on c/asklemmy. I have no need to post on Reddit and deal with all their blocking and tracking. It’s an absolute shitshow. --- ## Post 13 by @anonymous378 — 2025-08-13T16:32:55Z > [@Anonymous57](#): > > There’s no privacy benefit to using Mastodon and Element either > These privacy-respecting **social networks** allow you to participate in online communities Its obvious PG feels different about that. I am not sure why you would want this to be a section at all if you believe that. > [@Anonymous57](#): > > It’s also not a ghost town at all; I pretty much got feedback on every post I made. There are a few crossposts, but most of them are related to news that’s not exclusive to Reddit. We will have to chaulk it up to a difference of experience. I find Lemmy lacking in its activity (especially in terms of community diversity), and I constantly see AI generated (mostly stable diffusion) posts. If we both agree it adds very little in terms of privacy, then there is no reason to recommend regardless of how I feel about its activity. Sites like [AlternativeTo](https://alternativeto.net/) would be a better resource then PG if the point is to just find an alternative to a popular social media network. --- ## Post 14 by @WhinyHamletPayer — 2025-08-13T16:49:18Z Cyber-Typhoon wasn’t being critical of anything you said - they just wanted some clarification since your question was vague.