After quite a while, @crashdoom has finally found something to do with pawb.social – Introducing, Lemmy!

Lemmy is a selfhosted, federated social link aggregation and discussion forum, similar to Reddit, but using ActivityPub just like Mastodon.

This instance will serve as Pawb.Social’s foot-in-the-door and an expansion of our services beyond Mastodon, but we won’t be restricting usage to just users from furry.engineer and pawb.fun – Anyone is free to join!

Any user can create their own community within the instance, share it with other instances, and create a conversation around their favorite topics.

Though, if you have a Mastodon account already, you don’t need an account to post here! Just take the community name to the right (e.g. pawbsocial_announcements, remove the !) and mention it in a post:

@pawbsocial_announcements@pawb.social Hey, I can post to Lemmy from Mastodon!

You can also follow the community group account to get new posts straight on your existing Mastodon feed!

We’ll be utilizing two communities for official purposes: Pawb.Social Announcements for news and info about Pawb.Social services and Pawb.Social Feedback to receive feedback, issues, and comments on policy from our users.

We hope you’ll enjoy and help us create yet another amazing community together!

-Crash

Pawb.Social Network Owner

Mobile Apps

If you’d like to browse on your phone, take a look at the list of apps on the Join Lemmy website! There’s both a client for iOS and Android, so no one should be left out!

Popular Communities

Remote Communities

Formerly Reddit Communities

You can find official and unofficial Reddit communities that moved to the Fediverse with the awesome tool over at https://sub.rehab/!

  • vashtiEnglish
    31·
    2 years ago

    Admits joining because I thought you were a Welsh instance and “pawb” meant everyone. I am a disaster. That said, hello!

    • foxyEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      Hahaha I love that

      Hello

      • vashtiEnglish
        17·
        2 years ago

        Someone to me, in a year: “so how did you become a furry, exactly?”

        • Orion (awooo)English
          9·
          2 years ago

          That’s honestly a better story than those of us who stumbled on the weird cringe compilations, or even something spicy lmao

          • Milez_WEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Agreed. Most wholesome furry conversion story ever.

    • WahotsEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Oh my goodness, this is cute :)

  • Soatok DreamseekerEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    This is pretty cool. I should suggest Lemmy to the cryptography nerds I hang out with :3

    • Crashdoom (he/him)OPMAEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Please do! Would love this to become an awesome way to bring up and discuss topics in more detail than is possible on Mastodon itself!

  • LaurentideEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Hello fluffy friends! (And Welsh friend!) Reddit gave me a blackout for my cake day, so I decided I’d try to figure out how all this federated stuff works before they pull the plug on my lunch break reading material too.

  • ZorinEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Heyyyy! Thanks for firing this up. Looking forward to seeing if this takes off. I like what I see so far. :)

  • CapydeevEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Hello o/ I’m just having a look around and trying to figure out how this all works.

    • CapydeevEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Seem to be unable to reply to my mastodon account from my lemmy account. Looks interesting though! Neat seeing replies from the communities I follow pop up on the other timeline.

      • CapydeevEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Test reply with ~~undefined ~~ English language. Have I really been here a whole week already?

  • PalámemaEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Henlo Lemmy ^-^

    I’m a Reddit Refugee who’s been exploring federated social media after the recent chaos on corporate sites. Slowly learning all of the jargon for how all this works, but it looks like a neat concept that will foster a nice cozy community :3

    • natebluehoovesMAEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I wish the cozy community was the biggest reason for my involvement, but honestly the feeling of having hundreds of people using the server hardware I tinker with is really exciting!

      I handle the local hardware and crashdoom handles the software. Honestly he does the hard part IMO.

  • AdalEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I’m glad to be here on a furry instance!

  • brodokkEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Thks for hosting this! The mobile app are cool too :3

  • Cougar@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Hello! This community is visible from lemmy.ml but not yet the rest.

    Maybe it’d be useful to have a list of communities so that they can be discovered more easily.

    • Crashdoom (he/him)OPMAEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Still trying to figure out how the discoverability works, haha. Will add a few of the communities from here to the post!

      • NullEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Thanks for all the work. That discoverability is what led me here. 👍 Just learned about Lemmy

  • museEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    excited to be here! thank you for all of your work in setting up the community and hosting the instance :D