I really started to just use Lemmy as a option b, rather than the main social media I use.
After Lemmy thankfully reached more than 50k active users, the closure of Lemm.ee is expected to lower this number by a lot.
Furthermore, I started to think about what would happen if my current instance got shutdown, as all my communities will be finished and all my activity will be useless.
The whole situation feels hopeless in social media as there is no valuable community-focused social media service to actually replace Reddit for once and for all.
The death of social media is kind of fueling the death of human to human communication.
Currently people are shopping, working, learning and enjoying with almost zero human interaction.
I am expecting a very bad event here. I predict that within the next 10-15 years, there will be a large amount of people who will finish high school without meeting a single human outside their family, that will lead to a generation which will be unable to express their feelings or talk and make relationships.
Over the long term, this is going to make the world worse.
Anyway, I just wanted to write my thoughts here.
What are you talking about?
All lemm.ee users will have to create new accounts, like they never had any account before.
All lemm.ee communities are shutting down.
You can export your settings and subscriptions to a new account. You don't have a reddit karma score to care about keeping. The communities will migrate. You do lose your comment history on your profile, but it's not that bad.
I will admit I may be biased because I swap accounts frequently.
So?
http://new.instance/u/[email protected]if you really want people to see your post/comment historyCommunities will move as well, it's not a big deal.
In your post, you seem worried about the fact that the connections people make will be hyper local in real life, but you seem to be missing the fact that the Fediverse is the antithesis of that online.
Lemm.ee is just one house in the neighborhood, the important part is the community formed in the entire city, no matter where they live. If a house burns down, the occupants move on, but the community they are a part of remains.