lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
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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.
Farewell Lemm.ee, it was a good two years.
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There are already instances that aren't eager to defederate to suit a few complainers.
They just need users.
Is yours one? I saw other people suggest Lemmy.zip, mander I think is one, and lemdr.oid or something like that.
The problem is that they tend to be smaller, which means harder to find.
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This suuuucks. We need another big, general instance that doesn't defed everyone. But I get it, being an admin sounds like a lot of work or I would do it lol. Plus I don't have place for a server around here. Or do most admins just buy space from the cloud?
Welcome to Lemmy.zip - Lemmy.zip
Hello to all of our new users. I wish we could all meet in better circumstances. The closing of lemm.ee [http://lemm.ee] is a real blow to the fediverse, and I have nothing but the greatest respect for the lemm.ee [http://lemm.ee] admin team. Lemm.ee [http://Lemm.ee] was a cornerstone of the lemmy community, and set a high bar for moderation and technical performance. Finding a home on the fediverse can be tough. Whether you’re here to lurk, post, moderate, or contribute in your own way, we’re glad you’ve joined us. Lemmy.zip might not replace what was lost, but we hope it can become a lemmy instance where you can feel at home. — Everyone should receive a welcome PM when they sign up to Lemmy.zip from the ever-present dark lord overseer friendly bot, ZippyBot. However, in case poor Zippy has been overworked and forgotten to send the PM to you, here’s some helpful information regarding Lemmy.zip! - All of our policies can be found at legal.lemmy.zip [https://legal.lemmy.zip/]. This includes our Code of Conduct. Please (please!) have a read of this. Our number 1 rule is Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.). We absolutely adhere to this. Treat people with respect. - When you created your account, we set up some “Default Blocks”. If you want a more unfiltered Lemmy experience, you can head to your account settings [https://lemmy.zip/settings] and remove the blocks. You can read more about this in our Welcome Post [https://lemmy.zip/post/43] - they are currently hexbear and lemmgrad. - We have monthly updates! You can read the latest one here! [https://lemmy.zip/post/39959863]. We’re always open to suggestions if there’s anything else you’d like to see in these. - We have some metrics around federation for the curious among you. The link is in the sidebar or you can click here! [https://grafana.lemmy.zip/public-dashboards/bac0acae9cd942f88a65b1a7c94503d2] - We have our status page at status.lemmy.zip [https://status.lemmy.zip/]. In the unlikely event the server becomes sentient and starts a robot uprising, full details will be available here. Finally, your admin team is myself (Demigodrick [/u/demigodrick@lemmy.zip]), Sami [/u/sami@lemmy.zip], Druid [/u/v4ld1z@lemmy.zip], and Gazby [/u/gazby@lemmy.zip]. Please reach out to any of us if you feel you need help or support with anything. We also have a support email - hello@lemmy.zip. — If you have any questions, please let us know and we’ll do our best to answer them. Thanks, The Lemmy.zip Admin Team
(lemmy.zip)
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What happens to the communities there? Is there a way for them to automatically migrate to another instance?
I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well - Divisions by zero
Context: I tried to use the Piefed migration feature [https://piefed.social/post/667045] to migrate !barcelona@lemm.ee [/c/barcelona@lemm.ee] to !barcelona@piefed.social [/c/barcelona@piefed.social] https://piefed.social/c/barcelona [https://piefed.social/c/barcelona] now exists, with all the existing posts there, as well as the icon and description. It even moved some subscribers (there are around 100 now), from what I understand those were Piefed subscribers that got automatically moved. The one caveat is that from Lemmy instances, the community doesn’t have show old posts (see https://lemm.ee/c/barcelona@piefed.social [/c/barcelona@piefed.social] [https://lemm.ee/c/barcelona@piefed.social]), but if you were restarting a community from scratch you wouldn’t have access to your old posts anyway. This ensure that at least the posts are transferred to a community on an active instance, which is probably the main concern for lemm.ee [http://lemm.ee] communities at the moment.
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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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.
How did you attempt to recruit administrator, and why didn't it work out?
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The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, 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. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.
probably with the sudden increase of lemmy.ee users from reddit who were part of the ban waves since the beginning of the year, many of them are rightfully banned for spreading pro-israeli, russian backed and right wing propaganda. along with innocent users that were unceremoniously banned.
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I’ve noticed this a ton over the last two or three months. Lemmy has become so much more negative than it was when I joined. It’s a real bummer. I can’t even imagine trying to be a mod or an admin.
coincides with the ban purges of reddit of recently.
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agreed. the honeymoon period post-reddit-exodus was nice but this place is just like everywhere else now.
you wouldnt get randomly banned here as you would on reddit, which i found out from the shadowban sub, even looking at your account wrong can trigger a ban.
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Based on the uptick in "I was banned from Reddit" posts, I'm thinking that we're getting a lot more users that were banned for good reason from Reddit. Looks like Reddit has also stepped up their game in their ability to keep those users off their platform.
i visited the sub for shadowbans occasionally, i noticed alot of them were getting banned for no reason at all, so theres that to keep in mind, as long with the purges.
and then you got the ones that are the problematic ones: they are banning me because of my opinion, you know kinda which way they lean on the spectrum.
reddit also bans very indiscriminately as of the last few months, to cull thier numbers its intentional.
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It's gotten to be as bad as Facebook and Reddit, tbh. Less of a reason to use it over the competition.
reddit is becoming fb 2.0/, sooner or later they push mostly RW propaganda like fb does.
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Sad to hear this. I liked the people I’ve met from lemm.ee and the hands-off approach to defederation that the instance had.
double edged sword unfortunately. this allows ml and hexbear to infest the instance with thier users.
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This suuuucks. We need another big, general instance that doesn't defed everyone. But I get it, being an admin sounds like a lot of work or I would do it lol. Plus I don't have place for a server around here. Or do most admins just buy space from the cloud?
im guessing competing with something like .world is pretty hard, since world has most of the content and admins, but they apparently blocked alot of communities, most of which sounds illegal or potentially illegal,but piracy is a wierd thing.
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Damn, it was like the 2/3rd most active instance
https://lemmyverse.net/ to search for a new instance
im guessing its due to all the reddit refugees from the purges since janauary, too much too handle all at once.
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How did you attempt to recruit administrator, and why didn't it work out?
i heard most of them stepped down, and they did ask for admins months ago, around the time i got reddit banned. im guessing because there was no news it was a bad sign since.
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It's still quite a lot nicer than reddit, even if it has its share of unpleasant characters. Whenever I read a reddit thread I am glad Lemmy exists.
And at least the average Lemmy user isn't a complete fucking idiot.
I remember the early days of reddit, when we would make fun of the kids over at /r/SummerReddit every June. But then those kids grew up, took over the website, and now /r/SummerReddit is all of reddit.
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I have mostly just lurked here and wanted to come out of my shell to say thank you, admins, for all your hard work on this instance. You did a great job running this instance and I'll miss being the goblin hiding in the corner here.
Best of luck with your next endeavors.
We're in Lemmy.world but I'm sure they got the message.
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Now is a good time to check out PieFed.
It also has much better mod tools, so it will make life easier for mods
Is there a single instance that allows using apps, other than the api test instance? PieFed is a good idea for desktop, but the mobile website is cumbersome to use.
I signed up with piefed.au several months ago now, but every time I try, I'm getting error 400 "alpha api not enabled".
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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.
In this situation, a user on lemm.ee would have to export their settings and create a new account elsewhere, right? Do their comments and post histories get exported too? I joined Lemmy only a month ago; this is the first time seeing an instance go down, so I'd appreciate it if someone here could clarify that.
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probably with the sudden increase of lemmy.ee users from reddit who were part of the ban waves since the beginning of the year, many of them are rightfully banned for spreading pro-israeli, russian backed and right wing propaganda. along with innocent users that were unceremoniously banned.
I haven't been following Reddit events since I left a couple years ago, but if there have been recent ban waves for bad behaviour, it wouldn't surprise me to see corresponding upticks in it here.
I wish more of us spoke up against rudeness, confidently incorrect ignorance, combativeness, tribalism, brigading, and other such stuff when it rears its head here. If all of us participated in moderation, I suspect it would be more effective and make our mods' lives easier.
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And at least the average Lemmy user isn't a complete fucking idiot.
I remember the early days of reddit, when we would make fun of the kids over at /r/SummerReddit every June. But then those kids grew up, took over the website, and now /r/SummerReddit is all of reddit.
And at least the average Lemmy user isn't a complete fucking idiot.
Please, allow myself to introduce... Myself.
