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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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemm.ee has been an amazing instance.

Loved the transparency, mods, community, and lemm.ee is easy to type out and remember

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Thank you so much for providing my home instance. Have enjoyed Lemm.ee the past two years.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sad day. Lemm.ee was by far my favorite instance and my home. Thanks admins for the hard work.

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[–] k0e3 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

a user on lemm.ee would have to export their settings and create a new account elsewhere, right?

Yes

Do their comments and post histories get exported too?

No, but if I understand it correctly, they will live on in other servers that were federated at the time they were posted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I didn't realise that how it worked.

Doesn't that mean that the hosting requirements for every instance are just going to become unfeasibly large as time goes on, or do the files get cleared out after a couple of years?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Text is very small and easily compressible, it's more images that you need to worry about generally speaking.

[–] k0e3 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you kindly!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 182 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 days ago (21 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Damn, it was like the 2/3rd most active instance

https://lemmyverse.net/ to search for a new instance

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Oh man I had no idea how popular that instance was. That’s really sad :(((

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

complete tangent: I see lemmy.world is listed there, but anyone knows why .world doesn't appear on join-lemmy.org's list of servers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I noticed that too, but the observer and the explorer in the same page show them, so...ok...🧐

Maybe they're trying to divide the load among different servers, so they don't serve .world as the obvious default choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Actually the observer and explorer links redirect to external sites (fediverse.observer and lemmyverse.net respectively)

It would be odd to single out just the biggest server instead of letting people decide themselves; I have a feeling this exclusion is to do with .world's users having a beef with the folks running .ml 😅 (and vice verse - join-lemmy.org seems like the official Lemmy site, so ran by the .ml ppl)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Farewell Lemm.ee, it was a good two years.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The double edged sword of not defederating from other instances is that the worst instaces that most block will use your space to keep shoveling their bullshit to more people.

It creats a lot of extra work for the admins/mods

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

We're in Lemmy.world but I'm sure they got the message.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago

Oof owie, my instance

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

Thanks for your time. Take care of yourselves.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Thanks, admins, your efforts and patience have been greatly appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Managing a federated network comes with a lot of responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not just federated networks. It is anything with user interaction. Managing and moderating any sort of sizeable social media site is a lot harder than people think.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Shiiiit. What's the easiest way to migrate all my communities quickly???

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Go to your settings, and scroll down. Theres an export to json option. Just save it, and then you can imprt that file in your new account. Super easy.

Figuring out where to go is a little harder though.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

That is sad to hear. Thanks for the all the work admins.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Now is a good time to check out PieFed.

It also has much better mod tools, so it will make life easier for mods

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That’s depressing news, but I get it.

Any suggestions on alternative instances?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

lemmy.zip would be my recommendation.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago

Thanks for all your work, you ran a great instance and I appreciate all the effort you put into it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Thank you for your hard work! Sorry I was being an ass time to time.

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