Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/LemmyNet/lemmy/vs/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/LemmyNet/lemmy/vs/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw.md
Description: lemmy and zeroclaw share 8 technologies: Postgres, Tokio, jsonwebtoken, infer, lettre, tracing, prometheus, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

# lemmy vs zeroclaw

lemmy and zeroclaw share 8 technologies: Postgres, Tokio, jsonwebtoken, infer, lettre, tracing, prometheus, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

- [LemmyNet/lemmy](https://seerepo.com/r/LemmyNet/lemmy): 🐀 A decentralised discussion platform for communities.
- [zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw](https://seerepo.com/r/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw): Fast, small, and fully autonomous AI personal assistant infrastructure, any OS, any platform — deploy anywhere, swap anything 🦀

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Postgres, Tokio, jsonwebtoken, infer, lettre, tracing, prometheus, tracing-subscriber
- Only in lemmy: Actix Web, tokio-postgres, tokio-postgres-rustls, moka, diesel, diesel-async, diesel-derive-newtype, diesel_migrations, bcrypt, totp-rs, html-to-markdown-rs, html2text, reqwest-tracing, tracing-actix-web
- Only in zeroclaw: Tauri, axum, tower, objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, rumqttc-v4-next, rusqlite, SQLite, lapin, lru, tauri-plugin-store, wasmtime, tokio-executor-trait, tokio-reactor-trait, Vite, React, react-router-dom, crossterm, Ratatui, console, dialoguer, Slint, hmac, scrypt, image, mail-parser, async-imap, qrcode, pulldown-cmark, zip, schemars, jsonschema, log, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-otlp, tracing-log, Tailwind CSS, @uiw/codemirror-theme-github, @codemirror/lang-markdown, @uiw/react-codemirror, Lucide, react-markdown, remark-gfm, rehype-highlight

## Side by side

| | lemmy | zeroclaw |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 82,862 lines written, 516 code files | 1,544,804 lines written, 1,152 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% of its commits signed by AI | 14.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Devin, and CodeRabbit |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 5,140 commits, 14,669 stars | Last push November 6, 2026, 5,441 commits, 33,152 stars |
| Tests | 19 test files. 9.3% of its code files have a test that imports them | 226 test files. 10.7% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, lemmy or zeroclaw?

zeroclaw, with 1,544,804 lines written; lemmy has 82,862.

The proof: [zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw's code at commit 92098cc](https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/tree/92098cc0141d31cdb9eef20c55aa34e82520a865)

### Which has more GitHub stars, lemmy or zeroclaw?

zeroclaw, with 33,152 stars; lemmy has 14,669.

The proof: [zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw on GitHub](https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw)

### Which has more tests, lemmy or zeroclaw?

zeroclaw, with 226 test files; lemmy has 19.

The proof: [zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw's code at commit 92098cc](https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/tree/92098cc0141d31cdb9eef20c55aa34e82520a865)

### Which was updated more recently, lemmy or zeroclaw?

Both got their last push on November 6, 2026.

The proof: [zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, lemmy or zeroclaw?

zeroclaw: an AI signed 14.1% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Devin, and CodeRabbit.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw](https://seerepo.com/r/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/ai)

## Sources

- LemmyNet/lemmy: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit e831e70 (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/tree/e831e709a11c399027485b1980f86ed95d9d5855)
- zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 92098cc (https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/tree/92098cc0141d31cdb9eef20c55aa34e82520a865)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.