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.

This isn't a meme, it's a salute to lemm.ee users about to lose their instance

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[–] 63 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Wait wait wait , what happened

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    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.

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I genuinely cannot express the depths of my sorrow.

    I understand the decision and hold no ill will towards the admin team, I just think lemm.ee was exactly everything I wanted from an instance and am truly sad to not only lose the account history being associated with me, but also the most neutral of the instances.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    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!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can you transfer your account to a different instance yet?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    For .ee users still deciding on an instance to jump to, I chose .zip because it’s managed similarly:

    • Similar defederation policy
    • Runs the latest version of lemmy
    • Defederated from Threads

    Others moved to piefed.social.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So what's the difference between that and .world? Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but I don't see any "about us" pages for these Lemmy servers

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Scroll down to the bottom of both instances' home pages using the default lemmy UI. You'll see the version of lemmy they use. You'll also see a link labeled as Legal, which contains most of the instance's policies. The Instances link will show you what instances they are federated and defederated with. The modlog can also give you some insight on what's happening on the instance. Combine that with all the other information on their sidebars and you'll get a rough idea of how different they are managed.

    It also helps if you've been on lemmy for a while because you would've directly experienced or witnessed any issues or controversies those instances have been involved with.

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    My first instance shut down permanently within days of my signing up. I believe it had sometime remotely doing with Russia suddenly deciding to invade Ukraine.

    It really gave me that full cyberpunk experience.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    My first instance also shut down pretty quickly after I started using it, but not for major conflict reasons. I'll get the cyberpunk experience some other time I guess.. 😔

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Dang. Thank you for posting this; most informative shitpost ever! (I missed the official announcement.)

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    Life's a piece of shit 
    When you look at it 
    Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true 
    You'll see it's all a show 
    Keep 'em laughin' as you go 
    Just remember that the last laugh is on you 
    And
    
    Always look on the bright side of life
    Always look on the right side of life 
    
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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    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

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Im a .ee refugee on shitjustworks , its just not the same.. and i joinee few months ago

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’m just thinking that won’t work past the 30th as it’ll try to take you to a non-existent server

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Ok, any advice where we should move?

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I went with sopuli.xyz. People are friendly and the instance is stable.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    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)

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  • 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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm moving to both piefed and .zip

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I just moved/transferred over from sh.itjust.works from lemm.ee. I'm super sad to see it go. :(

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Same, although I never get attached to the instance I'm on. I was on .world before that. I'm just a hermit crab on Lemmy, I guess.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    the posts and comments will still live in other instances, but yeah, they should be looking for another one

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    F

    It's a good run.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    I've started the process of moving my communities and stuff, but I plan on continuing to post on .ee until it goes down. Btw, is there an easy way to check which instances a Lemmy/piefed instance is defederated from?

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    I have already moved to another instance and I was pretty new on Lemmy as a whole. I think I created my account about a month ago.

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    I logged in today and realized my lemm.ee profile was gone RIP lemm.ee

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Reminder that while it's not Lemmy, you can see the same stuff and more if you join Mbin. The power of the Fediverse is that there are lots of ways to do things, important for situations like this.

    Ironically, I haven't looked into the current situation with .io lately, so I might be doing the same thing eventually. But being such a huge domain, there might be some adjustment to avoid dropping so many websites.

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    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)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • 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.

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