It feels a bit weird to see lemm.ee users posting as if their accounts aren’t going to be dead in less than a month.
Edit: Sorry to lemm.ee users if this is how you found out, but this is real: https://lemm.ee/post/65824884
You’ll need to join another instance to keep posting: https://join-lemmy.org/instances
You have until June 30th, 2025, so you have 19 days.
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It’s a good run.
Consider switching to PieFed, it has many nice features Lemmy doesn’t
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Now don’t get me wrong, I am not hype about moving from a great instance, but I feel this has been a great demonstration of why the federation is a good idea. All in all, migrating has been a fairly smooth experience, and most communities are either on other places or are moving fairly structured. Previously, closure of services or enshitification has caused me to spend weeks to months hunting for new places to read. This has been a great experience in most ways, and I think I can live happily jumping from instance to instance like this for a few years until I give up and set up my own.
Can you transfer your account to a different instance yet?
Partially, at least not what I use regularly. The account settings has a system for exporting settings, communities and block lists. You cant really retroactively move comments and posts to have been made by another user, but making a post on both the old and new users claiming eachother should propagate to other instances and be archived correctly.
Also, old content won’t be gone. It’ll still be around. Hell, people can still even reply to stuff. Inactive lemm.ee communities won’t have new comments propagate to instances past where the original commenter is from, but still!
lemm.ee be real. your instance is fucked.
onto the next one.
but that’s the beauty of the fediverse… you can’t stop us all.
one for all, all for one
Wait wait wait , what happened
Lemme.ee got so toxic that the admins bailed. Nobody in the community supported the leads or stepped up to replace them. Whomever was fronting the money to keep the instance hosted got fed up and decided to shut it down.
Now there’s a big ceremonial cry-in for an instance that ate itself with dysfunction, because… idfk.
Oh, so you just like making shit up. I guess it’s to distract yourself from the feeling of your own incompetence?
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That’s not what happened. It wasn’t any more or less toxic than any other place on the internet, the lead admin just got burnt out. He asked the community for volunteers to moderate the instance and apparently nobody showed up.
So he’s shutting down the instance next month. It wasn’t dysfunctional or toxic, he just sacrificed a lot and AFAIK never even broke even with server costs.
The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.
Yeah, I gave volunteering a good, long think because I’m mostly sure I’ve got the right proficiencies for it, but my plate’s already overflowing as it is. I like lemm.ee, but when I sat down and considered my priorities IRL, I am legitimately sorry to say that it didn’t make the cut. I guess everyone else did that same math.
I’ve nodded some small but active enough to need real coverage subs on reddit. It’s a real job. People are too weird to self-moderate.
the lead admin just got burnt out. He asked the community for volunteers to moderate the instance and apparently nobody showed up.
:-/
Now there’s a big ceremonial cry-in for an instance
Tbh I thought it was low-hanging fruit and I wondered why no one was picking it.
Talk about over exaggeration lol. Lemm.ee was fine and well run, I enjoyed it more than being on .world. They just didn’t have enough people willing to be admins.
I hope they find a good new home.
I don’t know what most of the instances are about, but this one had a clever name and I don’t believe is federated with Hexbear. So here I am.
It’s powered by renewables which is cool :)
I bounced over to Lemmy.zip
Dang. Thank you for posting this!
o7, your instance had a good run
Ok, any advice where we should move?
I’m on SDF for its no-defederation policy and because SDF outside of Lemmy has a proven track record of public service and longevity. Like SDF is much older than I am. Occasionally there are hiccups and the SDF team is a bit slow to respond, but otherwise it’s been a good time. And the people here seem pretty chill too.
For my needs it’s the best one. But you might want something with a curated feed, a particular political orientation, a smaller or less crowded instance, or something else.
I’ve applied for .zip; is .add a more general purpose instance?
I honestly don’t know. I haven’t had to change instances for a while.
I moved to lemmy.world
No real reason tbh
I’m moving to both piefed and .zip
there is one issue that I’ve found - my work blocks lemmy.zip, so I’m using the piefed account I made to test it.
My guess is that it ends in “.zip” and is getting blocked, b/c the rest of lemmy they aren’t bothering with.
This is exactly why allowing .zip as a gTLD was such a damn stupid move.
I went with sopuli.xyz. People are friendly and the instance is stable.
I don’t love their decision to defederate hexbear, but otherwise I like this instance.
Not to say I don’t understand their reasoning for defederating, because I do, I just prefer as little defeds as possible aside from corporate influence (fuck threads)
If you are into solar punk slrpnk.net has been amazing for me. Due to some weird timing with the admin being out of town when the servers went down they’re down right now for a bit, so I’m not sure when they’ll be back up and running. But the current situation is a hiccup, not a consistent issue. I love the server, and if anything, the community reaction to the admin being unable to fix this for a few weeks has made me love it even more.
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Feddit.org it is.
If you wanna get banned for being pro-Palestine go ahead :/
Yeah, and feddit is run a by a transphobe if I remember correctly
And here I am
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stuck in the middle with you
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the posts and comments will still live in other instances, but yeah, they should be looking for another one
there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll.
While I respect their decision I feel like these people will just move on to other instances to do the same thing.
I don’t know all the details but it smells a bit “tolerant of the intolerant” and that these people should have been shown the door before it got to the point of shutting down (other reasons aside - they’re all valid)
The bad actors probably will move. But the problem is 99% of instance admins are volunteers and do it because they want to. It’s much harder to deal with that shit when it’s a labor of love and you’re not getting paid.
Most were “shown the door” as you mentioned but like spam, it’s a tsunami that’s hard to deal with on a large scale.
Absolutely, but these problems are common to all the instances. Maybe I interpreted it wrong, it sounded like they were directly engaging the bad actors over management of the platform, and doing that rather than just quietly banning them and moving on.
And to be clear I’m all for open collaboration and taking feedback, but I’ve seen this occur for Lemmy apps where loud and overbearing voices try and dominate the conversation to the benefit of noone, until Devs either stop responding or shut things down.
Regardless, it’s sad to lose an instance and I hope the admins find something rewarding to invest in without having to deal with the internet’s worst members.
Does anyone know how I could save off any of my comments or posts? I know that they’ll still be accessible from other instance they federated to, but it’d be hard to search them all out.
What I did is I linked my new account in the bio of the old one and vice versa. Not much more you can do.
I’m just thinking that won’t work past the 30th as it’ll try to take you to a non-existent server
From the admin post:
“If you’re moving to another instance, consider adding a note to your lemm.ee profile with your new username. Your old profile will still be visible from other instances even after we go offline.”
Just link it like this:
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Sticking around to the last day. Love you mods. Still haven’t picked an instance. Not sure if there’s another instance run like lemm.ee
Thinking dbzero, lemmy.zip, or shitjustworks for now
Idk I’m on lemmy.world and it seems fine? I think it’s just the default for most people since it was one of the earliest if not the first instance, would have to look it up.
The .world TDL makes it sound universal and it didn’t get a reputation as THE place for Mao cultists or whatever like .ml did. So lemmy.world isn’t the center of the lemmyverse but it is in the middle.
Im a .ee refugee on shitjustworks , its just not the same… and i joinee few months ago
It will never be the same again :(
The user interface with SLRPNK is good, if you’re still looking. I joined it just before kbin died and it’s done a pretty good job filling the hole reddit left, better than kbin anyway.
I tried to get the hang of blahaj.zone while SLRPNK was down recently and just couldn’t with how follow people/profile centric it is, or how awkward it was finding posts I’m interested in. I liked the cat widget though, reminded me of that ancient Felix browser add on.
SLRPNK ?
Thanks , will check it out when i get the time. Honestly i love the culture on lemmy where people try to help each other instead on “dunking” , really gives me hope! Thanks random stranger
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