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.
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.
Most positive Lemmy user
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.
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.
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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.
yah me too
Join us! Join the .zip!
lemm.ee in to lemmy.zip 😤
Hi!
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.
Be seeing you soon,
Thanks to the lemm.ee admins O7
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.
It was my first Lemmy love.
You never forget your first
For those looking where to head, here’s where I picked.
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!
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.
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
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; most informative shitpost ever! (I missed the official announcement.)
o7, your instance had a good run
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… 😔
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::Cheery whistling intensifies::
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the posts and comments will still live in other instances, but yeah, they should be looking for another one
So long.
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 .sdf a more general purpose instance?
I honestly don’t know. I haven’t had to change instances for a while.
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)
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Feddit.org it is.
And here I am
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If you wanna get banned for being pro-Palestine go ahead :/
Yeah, and feddit is run a by a transphobe if I remember correctly
I moved to lemmy.world
No real reason tbh
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.
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.























