Personally I think something like the shutdown of lemm.ee highlights the strength of the federated system. No one instance is the center if the universe, no one instance gets to control everything. It goes away and life goes on. You can migrate your profile and subs somewhere else.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
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I was feeling sad about Lemm.ee, but right now I feel that perhaps we’re too attached to any one instance lol. It helps to have more than one account and on different instances, to not put all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. It sucks to lose comment and post history though.
Exactly. Lemmy lives on regardless and it’s a glorious thing.
My heart goes out to the lemm.ee admins and I hope they’re doing okay and getting help where they need it <3
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.
The death of social media is kind of fueling the death of human to human communication.
I understand where you are coming from, but I feel the exact opposite. In my opinion, the rise of social media started the decline of real human connection.
Connection over social media is not a substitute for connection with humans in real life, but a lot of times it feels like it can be. I recently made a very deliberate effort to drastically cut back on my social media usage and instead force myself to go out and build community by participating in local groups and events. I've had so many good experiences and made several friends. That feels so much more valuable to me than the hours a day I used to spend doom scrolling.
Unsure if social media is dying but in no way would I consider it a replacement for meeting real humans offline.
Hell, if there's less social media, maybe people finally go and meet more people and while with those people, stay off their phones.
It's closing because a lack of admins. We need a coordinated effort to convert reddit mods. Let them know we have the old 3rd party apps working and registration and "applications" are easy. And send people strait to instances aligning with the sub instead of having them select a server