Lemmy
Lemmy is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Social & Forums category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Rust. It is a self-hosted alternative to Discord, Twitter / X and Reddit and ships a Docker image. It has 14,647 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 23, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 14,647
- Forks
- 969
- Open issues
- 112
- Commits, last 12 months
- 332
- Last commit
- Oct 23, 2026
- Latest release
- 0.19.20Jul 21, 2026
- Created
- Feb 14, 2019
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 23, 2026, 332 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases4 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 332 |
| Latest release | 0.19.20 (Jul 21, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 4 |
| Releases, all time | 89 |
| Open issues | 112 |
| Open pull requests | 8 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Feb 14, 2019 |
Health as of , from the GitHub API. A label describes activity, not quality or security. How we label project health · Report a data error
About Lemmy
Link aggregator for the fediverse (alternative to Reddit).
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.
Topics
- link-aggregator
- fediverse
- activitypub
- chat
- rust
- lemmy
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Is Lemmy free and open source?
Yes. Lemmy is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Lemmy with Docker?
Yes. Lemmy provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Lemmy?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Lemmy include Mastodon, Discourse and Flarum. Lemmy itself is a self-hosted alternative to Discord, Twitter / X and Reddit.
Is Lemmy actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Lemmy was on Oct 23, 2026 with 332 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 0.19.20, published Jul 21, 2026. It had 112 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.