Jerboa is a client for Lemmy, a federated and decentralized alternative to Reddit, Lobste.rs, Hacker's New's, Hubsky. Jerboa is created by the developers of Lemmy and is free and open-source software, which suggests it has no advertising, monetization or venture capital – there will never be any such thing in such software. Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News -- you sign up for forums of interest, post links and discussions, then vote and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it's very different: anyone can easily start a server, and all these servers are combined (think email) and connected to the same universe called Fediverse.