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Hello to all of our new users.

I wish we could all meet in better circumstances. The closing of lemm.ee is a real blow to the fediverse, and I have nothing but the greatest respect for the lemm.ee admin team. 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. 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 and remove the blocks. You can read more about this in our Welcome Post - they are currently hexbear and lemmgrad.

  • We have monthly updates! You can read the latest one here!. 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!

  • We have our status page at 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), Sami, Druid, and Gazby. Please reach out to any of us if you feel you need help or support with anything. We also have a support email - [email protected].


If you have any questions, please let us know and we'll do our best to answer them.

Thanks,

The Lemmy.zip Admin Team

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

Sad to see lemm.ee go, but welcome to all the new folk!

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

Thank you for the welcome. I chose lemmy.zip because the policy regarding defederation pleased me and the monthly update on the status of the server was great info.

I hope this instance last a bit longer than my two previous ones (vlemmy.net which disappeared overnight, then lemm.ee).

One small detail about your sidebar, you have alternative UI, that's a great plus. I would just name the software project running it next to the URL and Photon (m.lemmy.zip) is described as a mobile centric UI but it works great also on desktop (personally it's my UI of choice on desktop).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Heya. It's Zathras from lemm.ee. Thanks for adopting all of us who are migrating. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"I am Zathras from lemmy.zip, you have met Zathras from lemm.ee - is different Zathras.

listen! Zathras. Zathras. different, yes?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Can we have a list of the default blocks (perhaps divided into political vs NSFW)? I have dozens of my own blocks which I had already imported before knowing you added some by default.

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

Hey, welcome along! I've updated the post to include them but its currently hexbear and lemmygrad that get blocked on account creation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Glad to be here, thanks for welcoming us lemm.ee users!

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

More folk still wandering in, love to see it. A shame about the circumstances though.

Hope you get on well here :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you for the warm welcome and the very quick approval!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

sagan these balls gotem

welcome :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

sagan these balls gotem

Not sure I got that, but thank you!

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

it's a derivative of the ligma joke if you're familiar with that. don't worry about it :D

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm definitely not :D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hi, I'm thinking of maybe creating an account on lemmy.zip.

What I read in the legal docs looks promising. I have one question however: I do not see a proper imprint at lemmy.zip . Is the site and the domain privately owned? Not in a foundation or anything? If yes, are there plans in place in the case of the site owner stepping down from the project? Like transfer to another admin? Or could something like on lemm.ee with a closure happen as well at some point hypothetically?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm glad to be here tbh. I considered moving to either here or blahaj a few times just to get away from the biggest instances, but I had no issues with lemm.ee so I never did in the end. But here's my push I guess!

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

Hey, welcome :)

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

Thank you! Happy to be here😉

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

My immortality begins now I’ve been told. Queue Highlander theme music!

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

Thanks for the heads up about the default blocks, I didn't notice that and not too happy about it. But I'm having a great experience overall so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think it is a great compromise between defederation and being more palatable to less extremely minded people. Anyone who wants to can still unblock the instances, and this way their users at least get to show up in outside communities and posts for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It’s weird to see Lemmy.ee shut down as that was the first instance I joined. Moving here before all this happened is a strange coincidence.

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

Just made my account, thanks for having us!

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

Welcome! 👋

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Refuulemm.ee here, used Lemm.ee for quite some time and have had wonderful experience with the Fediverse so far. Happy to be welcomed and approved so quickly!

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

Thank you so much for let me in

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

Hey! Another .ee refugee here! Thank you all for keeping us alive in these trying times.

I really wish for here to be my long term home. If there is anything we can do to help on top of donations, I would be happy to participate :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Welcome, welcome. Excellent snag of a 3char username.

Mosey around, make yourself at home. Donations can be made on Open Collective and Ko-Fi.

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