Why “Lemmy” is being discussed
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Lemmy is OK, definitely a smaller and more select crowd though. Tildes is also decent but fairly low volume. I think there may no longer be such a place as “the front page of th…
by iamnothere · Oct 30, 2026
This is not true. A major shareholder would definitely have a cash cow company keep producing a steady 5% dividend return plus stock growth over a one-off 30% gain followed by s…
by karmakurtisaani · Oct 30, 2026
My experience with Lemmy is that it is much worse than reddit in terms of the number of people with cosmically inflated god-complex egos posting baseless accusations and wild mi…
by ranger_danger · Oct 29, 2026
The biggest Lemmy instance already sucks. Try lemmy.dbzer0.com instead.
by Vaushite · Oct 29, 2026
I really enjoy lemmy with summit client on my phone. Never been on it from my desktop though. Probably a good thing all things considered. It's got pretty good coverage of most…
by RugnirViking · Oct 29, 2026
There isn't one unfortunately. Some nerd is ok on Lemmy but you'll never find stuff like knitting or local communities. Not with any people on them anyway.
by IshKebab · Oct 29, 2026
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Ian Fraser Kilmister, better known as Lemmy or Lemmy Kilmister, was an English musician best known for being the founder, lead vocalist, bassist and primary songwriter of Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member from 1975 to his death. He had been a member of Hawkwind from 1971 to 1975. Read more on Wikipedia