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Lenny is a fork of a link aggregator — Lemmy. Sadly, it only exist because of disrespectful behavior of the original author.

To maintain stability, this fork has a little no changes, but:

• the main reason, completely removed “slur filter” — the ugliest way to block words;
• a bit cleaned up UI — removed “sponsors” page (upstreamed!) and useless right-down panel;
• new default themes — Pleroma, based on themes of the Pleroma project;
• allowed <sub>text</sub> and <sup>text</sup> HTML tags as ~text~ and ^text^ (upstreamed!);
• a muffin logo (by MLP Vector Club).

The Lemmy Problem

static ref SLUR_REGEX: Regex = RegexBuilder::new(r"(fag(g|got|tard)?|maricos?|cock\s?sucker(s|ing)?|\bn(i|1)g(\b|g?(a|er)?(s|z)?)\b|dindu(s?)|mudslime?s?|kikes?|mongoloids?|towel\s*heads?|\bspi(c|k)s?\b|\bchinks?|niglets?|beaners?|\bnips?\b|\bcoons?\b|jungle\s*bunn(y|ies?)|jigg?aboo?s?|\bpakis?\b|rag\s*heads?|gooks?|cunts?|bitch(es|ing|y)?|puss(y|ies?)|twats?|feminazis?|whor(es?|ing)|\bslut(s|t?y)?|\btr(a|@)nn?(y|ies?)|ladyboy(s?)|\b(b|re|r)tard(ed)?s?)").case_insensitive(true).build().unwrap();

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/1c0cc78f3f6d191aa384d8702016564625d51269

We are never going to remove the slur filter completely (or add an option to that effect), because we dont want to make it easy for right-wingers to use Lemmy. We can talk about removing or changing specific words, but in general I dont think there is anything wrong with writing “b*tch” or something like that.

LemmyNet/lemmy#816 (comment)

I’ll have to think about this. Hard-coding it means I don’t have to do a database migration every time someone comes up with a new slur. And putting it in a DB table means someone could very easily remove it by deleting every row of that table, which isn’t good. I want to make it very difficult for racist trolls to use the most updated version of Lemmy.

LemmyNet/lemmy#622 (comment)

This is bullshit.

Development

For development environment you should have installed Rust toolchain and Node.js.

Backend

pacman -S rustup nodejs yarn npm
rustup update nightly
git clone https://github.com/innereq/lenny && cd lenny
cargo build

To build a production container you could use Podman or Docker.

podman build -t lenny -f ./docker/prod/Dockerfile .

Frontend

Frontend now is a separated standalone project.

git clone https://github.com/innereq/lenny-ui && cd lenny-ui
yarn
yarn build

To build a production container you could use Podman or Docker.

podman build -t lenny-ui .

Deploying

You can use our prebuilt container or build your own. Remember to choose a tag.

podman pull podman pull ghcr.io/innereq/containers/lenny
podman pull podman pull ghcr.io/innereq/containers/lenny-ui