• Vespair@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
    0·
    2 months ago

    I’m an absolute noob when it comes to tech and I don’t even know what instance I am on and how this matters to be honest.

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      I don’t even know what instance I am on.

      You are on Lemm.ee. Unfortunately, this is the instance this post is about.

      and how this matters to be honest.

      In about 17 days, you will no longer be able to login with your lemm.ee account. You should sign up for an account on any other instance. Examples include lemmy.sdf.org (the one I’m on) or any of the sites listed here: https://join-lemmy.org/instances

      Lemmy (and PieFed and mBin, but I’m just going to talk about Lemmy for simplicity) attempts to provide an experience inspired by Reddit, but not controlled exclusively by one party. Loosely speaking, where Reddit is only one website and the whole social network belongs solely to Reddit, the social network spanned by Lemmy is actually a bunch of smaller websites that talk to each other. If the Reddit website goes down, the whole social network is down. If a Lemmy instance goes down, only that little part of network goes down.

      Unfortunately, the admins of your instance have politely posted that your instance is going down on June 30th. This applies to you and anyone whose username ends in @lemm.ee, but it does not apply to (for example) me because I am not a user on your instance. (I am on lemmy.sdf.org, which you can infer from my full username @PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org, which ends with @lemmy.sdf.org.)

      Which instance you pick depends on what you want to see, what kind of administration you want, your political beliefs and how important they are, and who you want to be allowed to talk to. For my use case, I use SDF Lemmy because we don’t defederate (roughly, cut off communication) from anyone, even people who unambiguously deserve to be cut off. Furthermore, the people here are pretty chill. And SDF.org has a history of public service literally much older than I am, so SDF Lemmy will probably be around for a while.

      Occasionally SDF Lemmy is out for like 24 hours and the SDF.org admins are a bit slow to respond, but that’s fine for me. But also, SDF is a pretty big instance now. In order to not concentrate too much power in the hands of SDF (or anyone else), you should probably choose a less crowded instance.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    0·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • amda@feddit.nl
      0·
      2 months 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… 😔

  • originaltnavn@lemm.ee
    0·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
      0·
      2 months ago

      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

      • originaltnavn@lemm.ee
        0·
        2 months 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.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      2 months 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!

  • scytale@lemmy.zip
    0·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • spicehoarder@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      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

      • scytale@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        2 months 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.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    0·
    2 months 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?