Lemmy Hot Posts Screensaver
The Lemmy Hot Posts screensaver is a live feed of the hottest posts on a Lemmy instance right now — title, community and score. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
How the Lemmy Hot Posts screensaver works
A background pipeline reads a Lemmy instance's public feed of hot local posts from Lemmy's own key-less REST API.
The saver scrolls them up the screen, each showing the post title, its community and score.
NSFW posts and communities are filtered out before the feed ever reaches the saver.
It refreshes every minute so the feed keeps pace with what's hot.
A worked example
Posts rise from the bottom — a meme from !memes, a comic from !calvinandhobbes, a shitpost from !lemmyshitpost — the mix shifting as different threads gain votes across the instance.
Settings & tips
- Scroll speed sets how fast posts move.
- Accent recolours the highlights.
- Run
automation/run.py lemmyhoton your pipeline machine to refresh the feed.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the feed live?
- Yes. It comes from a Lemmy instance's public data, refreshed every minute by the pipeline, so it tracks what's hot now.
- Is a key needed?
- No. Lemmy's public REST API is fully key-less.
- Does it show NSFW posts?
- No — NSFW posts and communities are filtered out before the feed is built.
- What is Lemmy?
- A federated, Reddit-like link-aggregator and discussion platform made up of independently run instances.
- Is it free?
- Yes — free, no download, in your browser.