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.
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.
Join us! Join the .zip!
Hi!
Be seeing you soon,
Thanks to the lemm.ee admins O7
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
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.
yah me too
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.
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!
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.
For those looking where to head, here’s where I picked.
It was my first Lemmy love.
You never forget your first
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
Im a .ee refugee on shitjustworks , its just not the same… and i joinee few months ago
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.
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 modded 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.
:-/
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.
Most positive Lemmy user
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.
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.
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… 😔
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 :)
Dang. Thank you for posting this; most informative shitpost ever! (I missed the official announcement.)
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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I just moved/transferred over from sh.itjust.works from lemm.ee. I’m super sad to see it go. :(
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.
I’ve seen you everywhere, or maybe it’s just my Metroid fanboy eyes picking up…
I do comment a lot (probably too much) some days…
I still miss kbin…
I didn’t like it personally, BUT! I will say! Kbin was a cooler name than Mbin.
Ok, any advice where we should 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)
https://join-lemmy.org/instances
the advice i’ve heard is pick one that isn’t too big but not too small either. spend some time looking at the local communities to see if they align with what you want. .zip is focused on gaming and tech which is me. others are politics heavy. some are widely defederated, which may be the only thing that really matters-- you don’t want one that everyone can’t stand (.ml, etc)
Feddit.org it is.
And here I am
Based
welcome! again!
If you wanna get banned for being pro-Palestine go ahead :/
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 .sdf a more general purpose instance?
I honestly don’t know. I haven’t had to change instances for a while.
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.
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.
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.
