I ended up on .zip, the switch was mostly painless, just a couple small tech issues and having to get rid of a default block. I didn’t have any communities I managed, so not really applicable. I did consider Piefed, but I’m satisfied with Lemmy and Jerboa, and many accounts I see from piefed are superusers I don’t vibe with so it hasn’t drawn me. I would say the switch was pretty seemless and I didn’t grow super attached to lemm.ee because it wasn’t my first instance to shut down.

Turned out painless. Piefed has been just as good as .ee for the most part.

Switched a bit before it shut down. Lemme.ee felt like the best fit on lemmy for me. It was well run and the devs were mostly neutral on lemmy disputes and controversies. It was exactly what I think a general use instance should be. I’m happy on fedia. It’s run in a similar way and the devs communicate with the users well and were responsive when I had an problem. I actually like fedia a little better just because I like kbin/mbin better.

I’m a little concerned for fedia though. When I came from reddit I started with kbin.social then I went to lemm.ee now I’m on fedia. I hope the curse has run it’s course.

I diversified and wound up making a bunch of accounts. If I am being honest, I forgot about the whole .ee transition until this post, so I guess all in all pretty well.

I considered PieFed, but ended up sticking with Lemmy. I think Lemmy feels less complicated, there’s just less features, which I prefer. No hate for PieFed, of course, I think it’s awesome!

db0 has been great! I couldn’t bring my communities with me, but it’s fine… I didn’t really have much anyway.

I do miss lemm.ee, because their very generalist maxims really resonated with me. I really don’t think there’s a true spiritual substitute.